not as good as the old stuff

This is the worst CD that Robert Earl has ever released!!!

what is he thinking, lets stick to the old stuff

Robert Earl could basically just fart in the mike and it would be worth buying! That is why I think that this album is a great album. I really like the sound that he has put into the cd.

Gravitational Forces is an all around great CD because Robert Earl Keen is not scared to try new things, which is what sets him apart from all other Texas country artists. "My Home Ain't in the Hall of Fame" and "Wild Wind Blows" are two of my favorites. Also, I have never heard Robert Earl sing his best-known song "Road Goes on Forever" any better than on Gravitational Forces. Other Texas country artists often try to sing this song in concert, but it seems like Robert Earl is basically saying "top that because only I can sing that song the way it is supposed to be sung". This is definetly a CD that should be added to any Texas country lover's collection.

i could say that i expected too much or that my standards are too high when it comes to REK, but you have to face it this cd is not his style and isnt very good. the whole cd sounds like it was drug induced, the way he mumbles through the road goes on forever should be a sin!

gravitational forces is not a robert earl success. this album strayed too far from traditional robert earl. granted people change but this is not a change for the better!

Robert Earl is the embodiment of true lyrical form. No one does it better. It all started in 96" when I just happened to be flicking thru the channels and happened to stop on PBS, and there was Robert on Austin City Limits, I have'nt strayed from Texas music since. Here it is in a nutshell, Robert is the true father of Texas music, and Pat and Cory are the sons who will take Texas music to a new frontier!! VIVA LA TEXAS MUSIC!!

Long time follower, but REK's new cd is just not all that great. He has done a lot better

I'm highly disappointed. Sounds like Keen's run out of steam. Kinda sad when you don't even write the lead off track, "My Home Ain't the Hall of Fame." And it sounds like there's three demo versions of "Feelin' Good Again" off "Walking Distance" rehashed here: "Hello New Orleans" (where he even finds some unexpected money in a pair of jeans!), "Wild Wind" (which sonically is given a treatment ripped off from Bill Mallonee and Vigilantes of Love's "Hard Luck & Heart Attack"), and "Not a Drop of Rain." Well, that takes you almost halfway through the record. . . This is low-keyed for a Keen CD--there's not one king-hell shit-kicker as there usually is, nor a real "novelty" tune ("That Bucking Song" qualified as both on the last record). The closest we come for that is the strange "Gravitational Forces", which I can't figure out, a speaking gripe about an interminible sound check set to some spacey shuffle background track. But, who really cares about it, Robert? Certainly this didn't deserve to be the "title cut." It's the season to pay tribute to Townes Van Zandt, and Keen joins the fray with a nice "Snowin' on Raton". Inexplicably, Keen finds it necessary to snap the heads of his regular listeners back at attention by trotting out, once again, "The Road Goes on Forever." Pluheeze. I don't know who Keen is trying to aim this record at. The Rowdies which sustained him for so long and which have become an embarassment to him at live shows have been denied their opportunity to adopt this-year's-Five Pound Bass. Just as well--they've probably deserted for the latest Pat Green CD. I did enjoy a few cuts on this record--Not a Drop of Rain and Goin' Nowhere Blues (which sounds at times suspiciously like VOL's "Nothing Like A Train"--which might be one reason I liked it), but the good stuff--the good and NON familiar, I'd go so far to say--is few and far between. I made the mistake of buying "Gravitational Forces" the same time I picked up Julie and Buddy Miller's new CD. And that's a hard act to measure up again.