Keen Records
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Keen Records was an American independent record label, founded by John and Alex Siamas in 1957 in Los Angeles. John Siamas was a successful businessman in the aerospace industry, and, as a music afici
Keen Records
Robert Christgau
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Robert Thomas Christgau is an American music journalist and essayist. Among the most influential music critics, he began his career in the late 1960s as one of the earliest professional rock critics a
Keen Records
…is not absolutely certain. Robert "Bumps" Blackwell was the A&R man. It was a black pop label, featuring Sam Cooke and Johnny "Guitar" Watson. Critic Robert Christgau wrote that Keen was "one of the most resolutely black labels the record business has known." Sam Cooke…
Christgau in 2010
Christgau on the "Music in the '00s" panel at the 2010 Pop Conference in Seattle.