Arts/entertainment

The latest album from singer songwriter Willie Nile titled The Great Yellow Light features ten songs from the pen of one of America’s finest songwriters. For this album Nile convened to Hobo Sound in Weehawken, NJ with his ace band consisting of Johnny Pisano on bass, Jon Weber on drums and Jimi K. Bones on guitar along with an amazing guest list of musicians including Steve Earle, James Maddock, legendary Irish singer Paul Brady, Chris Byrne and Larry Kirwan from the band Black 47, David Mansfield, Rob Hyman and Eric Bazilian from the band The Hooters and master guitarist Waddy Wachtel among others. Lots of highlights off The Great Yellow Light including the raucous rocker and opening track “Wild Wild World”, the anthem for the ages “We Are, We Are”, the high energy greasy groove of “Electrify Me”, the heartfelt Celtic tinged “An Irish Goodbye” featuring Paul Brady on vocals, the dynamic and building title cut “The Great Yellow Light” which is a reference to the letters Vincent Van Gogh wrote to his brother Theo while living in France about the light that inspired his paintings, the jangly Roots rocker about the musician’s life “Tryin’ To Make A Livin’ In The U.S.A.”, the bluesy rocker “Fall On Me”, the piano ballad “What Color Is Love”, the powerful anthem for our times duet with Steve Earle “Wake Up America” and the LP closer with members of The Hooters “Washington’s Day”. Willie Nile’s latest album The Great Yellow Light is one of the strongest albums from this distinguished artist. For more information about Willie Nile and his new album The Great Yellow Light visit his website https://www.willienile.com or go to https://www.facebook.com/willie.nile

One other note, the album jacket features a fine collection of photographs from acclaimed photographer Cristina Arrigoni. You can view some of her other work here https://cristinaarrigoniphotography.com

Four time Grammy winning drummer, producer, songwriter and Buffalo Music Hall of Fame inductee Tom Hambridge has released a new album titled Down the Hatch a twelve song batch of original Hambridge tunes. For this album Hambridge brought along some of his friends including Rob McNelley (Bob Seger), Tom Bukovac (Joe Walsh), Bob Britt (Bob Dylan), and long time pal Buddy Guy on guitar; Glenn Worf (Mark Knopfler), Tommy MacDonald (Johnny Winter) and Anton Nesbitt (BeBe & CeCe Winans) on bass; Mike Rojas (The Black Keys), ace session man Kevin McKendree (Brian Setzer) and Noah Forbes on keyboards, Tim Lauer (The Smashing Pumpkins) on accordion and Tom on drums, vocals and percussion. Hambridge is a master songwriter having written over one thousand published songs and he has produced and played on over one hundred albums. Lots of good stuff for your listening pleasure on Down the Hatch including the ode to the great Willie Dixon on “Willie Dixon’s Gone” co-written with George Thorogood, “Every Time I Sing the Blues” originally recorded by Eric Clapton and Buddy Guy, Hambridge finally releases his own version here, the jaunty blues romp “I Want You So Bad”, the tough blues rocker “How Blues Is That”, the top down rocker “What Does That Tell You”, the haunting “Believe These Blues”, the rip snorting rocker ”Making Lemonade”, the rollicking instrumental ode to Chuck Berry (Hambridge used to play drums for Chuck)with “You Gotta Go Through St. Louis” featuring Buddy Guy and the country blues number in praise of day drinking “Start Drinking Early Day”. For more information about Tom Hambridge and his latest album Down the Hatch visit his website at http://hambridgetunes.com or you can go to https://www.facebook.com/hambridgetunes

Singer songwriter and keyboardist Dave Keyes has released a new album titled Two Trains an eclectic mix of roots, blues, country, Gospel and funk. A forty-year veteran of the music world Keyes has worked with Levon Helm, Poppy Chubby, Ronnie Spector, David Johansen, Odetta, Bo Diddley, Lou Rawls and Darlene Love to name but a few of the artists he has worked with over the years. Keyes gets some impressive help with this recording including the master of the drums Bernard Purdie, Frank Pagano also on the drums, John Putnam on guitar, Jeff Anderson and Mike Merritt on the bass, Rob Paparozzi on harmonica, Hasan Bakr on percussion, Chris Bergson on slide guitar, the amazing Alexis P. Suter and Vicki Bell on backing vocals and the late acoustic guitar legend Woody Mann. Nuggets off Two Trains include the big and gritty blues howler “Blues Ain’t Lookin’ For You”, the rollicking piano tinkling toe tapper “Boogie Till The Cows Come Home”, the soulful title track “Two Trains”, the righteous rave up “I’m Alright”, the churchy blues ballad “Long Way From Right Now”, the instrumental piano workout “Boogie For Patty”, the southern soul comfort of “Trust in Love and Fate”, the smooth acoustic blues number with Mann “Worrying You Off My Mind” and the Gospel tinged ballad “Rest in Peace”. For more information about Dave Keyes and his new album Two Trains visit his website https://www.davekeyes.com or you can go to https://www.facebook.com/DaveKeyesmusic