MUSIC NEWS - Almost 30 years after his heralded debut and two years after his re-emergence on his Streets of New York (buy the cd here) release, Willie Nile is back and ready to put his career into high gear with a new album called, House of a Thousand Guitars (on River House Records, April 14). The album was produced by several-- Andy York (Ian Hunter), Brad Albetta (Teddy Thompso
Talk about a second wind. Fifteen years after his previous studio effort (1991's Places I Have Never Been) Nile summoned a life in rock 'n' roll as the musical language for his hometown love letter, Streets of New York. Nile seemed to be aging forward and backward at the same time, writing lyrics from the perspective of middle-age and setting them to the fevered musical roots of youth. [...]Ori...
Talk about a second wind. Fifteen years after his previous studio effort (1991's Places I Have Never Been) Nile summoned a life in rock 'n' roll as the musical language for his hometown love letter, Streets of New York. Nile seemed to be aging forward and backward at the same time, writing lyrics from the perspective of middle-age and setting them to the fevered musical roots of youth. [...]Ori...
Rock 'n' roll albums have become a sadly scarce commodity. Sure, there's indie rock, punk rock, modern rock and all manner of hyphenated descendants, but few artists still make rock music with roots that reach through all of the layers of decades past. The "'n' roll" has been lost in the translation. Luckily, New York-bred Willie Nile is one such artist, born just in time for early exposure to ...
MUSIC NEWS - Almost 30 years after his heralded debut and two years after his re-emergence on his Streets of New York (buy the cd here) release, Willie Nile is back and ready to put his career into high gear with a new album called, House of a Thousand Guitars (on River House Records, April 14). The album was produced by several-- Andy York (Ian Hunter), Brad Albetta (Teddy Thompso
If this song doen't touch you, and almost bring a tear to your eye.. then you haven't listened to it enough... This is a awesome CD.... and the new one is just as good