Zoo Tunes Tonight - Todd Snider and Robert Earl Keen
What are you doing tonight, Seattle? If you don’t have plans, and you want to be entertained by a self-described “tree-hugging, peace loving, pot-smoking, porn watching, lazy ass hippie”, get yourself down to Woodland Park Zoo tonight for Robert Earl Keen with special guest Todd Snider.
I’ve never seen Robert Earl Keen in concert, and in fact, I’m not even sure I’ve ever heard any of his music. However, Todd Snider is easily worth all of the $17 admission fee. His songs are stories, complete with some (likely) pot-induced ramblings and non sequiturs. I enjoy listening to his music on CD, but he’s even more entertaining in person.
Pick up some easily portable food, grab a blanket (and probably a jacket tonight) and camp out for what is sure to be a very entertaining evening.
Be sure to also bring a squirt gun or rolled-up newspaper for the hordes of concertgoers who don’t seem to care that there’s a concert happening, and talk loudly amongst themselves or on their cellphones through the entire thing. I want to like Zoo Tunes, but the audiences there are the absolute worst. I can forgive the young kids tearing around and shouting–they’re kids. The adults who won’t shut up, though, what’s their excuse?
Robert Earl Keen always puts on a great show. He was Lyle Lovett’s housemate at Texas A&M for a while.