Preacher Keen Concert History

Preacher Keen's earliest musical influences came from the church--not the traditional kind of organist and choir, but the all-out, over-the-top, hell-fire and brimstone, emotionally charged, hillbilly gospel kind served up in the fundamentalist churches attended by Keen's family. His first musical instrument was a lap steel at age six, but the rigidity of formal music lessons didn't agree with him. However, on a spur of the moment whim, he purchased a harmonica and found that he liked teaching himself to play.