If you’re not subscribing to our monthly supporters newsletter you’ll be missing out on our exclusive supporters playlist of the best new americana we’ve heard over the last month which this month includes new tracks by Teddy Thompson, Deer Tick, Great Lake Swimmers, Bedouine and Alela Diane among others – as always we trawl through the best Americana we’ve heard recently so you don’t have to. We’ve also got behind the scene video interviews exclusive for supporters with Fruit Bats’ Eric B Johnson, Deer Tick, MC Taylor, Allan Jones and Ella Spencer who is playing our Americana 25 event in November.
For this month’s fabulous supporters giveaway we have a vinyl copy of the new album from multi-talented singer, songwriter and musician Jim Keller – Vinylly! is a collection of 14 of his finest songs from the last 15 years, and his first ever European vinyl release which includes songs spanning Keller’s late-career renaissance, four decades after he and his band, Tommy Tutone, topped the charts with 867-5309/Jenny.
Born and raised in New Jersey, Keller found fame after moving to San Francisco, where he launched Tommy Tutone in the late 1970s. Despite their meteoric rise, the band was short-lived, and Keller soon found himself in the proverbial wilderness, struggling to make ends meet until he talked his way into a job with famed composer Philip Glass. For the next 25 years, Keller would go on to run Glass’s publishing company, eventually managing his career outright in addition to working with luminaries like Tom Waits (who has said: “Listening to Jim Keller makes me feel like I have big plans and all my hair”), Ravi Shankar, and Rufus Wainwright.
We also have two copies of the new album by the Milk Carton Kids Lost Cause Lover Fool which we awarded a 9 out of 10 when we reviewed it in April, describing it as “tantalisingly close to perfection”.
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