Jim Keller - End Of The World

Artiest/Band: Jim Keller Album: End Of The World Release: 24th October 2025 Label: CRS Format: CD/LP/DL/Digital Genre: Blues/Americana/Singer-Songwriter JIm Keller is the best kep secret of the New York soulful rocking singer/songwriter scene. But he blames himself for that: "I did not do me or my career a favor by working for the likes of Philip Glass, Tom Waitts, Ravi Shankar and Rufus Wainwright for well over 25 years." That was after he and his band Tommy Tutone had scored a huge hit with 867-5309/Jenny in the 1981..........►►►

Jim Keller is the best kep secret of the New York soulful rocking singer/songwriter scene. But he blames himself for that: "I did not do me or my career a favor by working for the likes of Philip Glass, Tom Waitts, Ravi Shankar and Rufus Wainwright for well over 25 years." That was after he and his band Tommy Tutone had scored a huge hit with 867-5309/Jenny in the 1981.

Once returned to recording and performing the source just kept (over)flowing. 7 Albums and still counting, and epic shows in New York clubs: if Keller plays a show, the best musicians from New York are either on stage with him or in the audience. 
End Of The World features all new songs and is produced by Adanm Minkoff, long time musical partner in crime, and mostly co-writeen with Byron Isaacs. It still features Keller's whiskey-drenched voice but it adds a rocky upbeat touch to the soulful performances. Love One Another will be out as a last new single on Wednesday October 8 before the album release on October 24.

A cult figure in the music business, Keller’s gigs at New York’s Lakeside Lounge and The Rockwood Music Hall are legendary. If the best players in town weren’t on stage with him, they were in the audience, singing along, playing along, making the sort of noise that would get you locked up in a lesser town.
Produced by long time musical director Adam Minkoff this is a rocking set of 12 Keller originals that confirms Kellers as one of the most exciting and most prolific singer/songwriters of today’s New York music scene. From the horse’s mouth:

In 2022 I got together with my New York friend Adam Minkoff (a producer, singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist who tours with Graham Nash and Amy Helm) to record tracks for an album that we released as Spark and Flame. After that project, I picked up where I left off with my LA buddy Mitchell Froom (a producer of artists such as Los Lobos, Richard Thompson and Suzanne Vega plus musician who is a member of Crowded House) for our second album with Bob Glaub, David Hidalgo and Michael Urbano, called Daylight. Those two projects were in many ways opposites; Adam records tracks, and with Mitchell, everything is totally live. Both were a blast.
Then Adam and I reconvened with our usual jam-session array of Brooklyn, Woodstock and New York City musicians, and a new set of songs emerged. They became this album, End of the World.
Adam produced.

We recorded me on guitar and vocals, Lee Falco on drums and Adam on bass, then built the tracks from there. This allowed Adam and I to play with the arrangements and instrumentation in the studio. If there is a downside, it’s that tinkering with songs takes time, but experimentation in the studio is a luxury and process is almost always joyful and engaging. As always, the songs are almost all written by me with Byron Isaacs (singer, songwriter, and bassist for The Lumineers and Ollabelle)) who has been my partner in crime for over 15 years and comes up with all the best lines

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