Biography

John Keenan isn't locked in to a single genre. Trying to classify him, I gave
up and put him in Rock, Folk, and Country/Americana. So it made me feel
better in the album notes where it mentioned "he has gone back to his first
love Country/Americana." This makes sense because you hear a lot more
than that in his songs, but he's wise enough to know that it's hard making an
album that appeals to fans across multiple genres.
Lines On My Face is Keenan's third album, written solely by himself with
the exception of "Galveston" written by Andrea Renfree. Another Renfree,
Peter "Ren," produced and arranged the record at his headquarters of 8
South Studio in Alamogordo, New Mexico. You can almost taste the heat
and sand of the south-central New Mexican desert in the songs themselves.
There's a grit you can sense right away. It'd be somethin' else if this record
were conceived entirely on North Sea's coastlines--it'd just sound different.