This is the debut solo album from New England songwriter James Keyes. Ruminations is fifteen rough hewn tracks recorded in the basement of an old brothel in Douglas, MA where Babe Ruth used to get his bootleg liquor. James Keyes is a singer songwriter… but who isn’t? Principally opposed to the hippie coffee house jangle “folk” singing self righteous NPR crowd, Keyes’ music draws more from the Howlin’ Wolf and Woody Guthrie side of the tracks as opposed to the Joni Mitchell and Pete Seeger types. Often compared to Waits and Cash, Keyes simply tries to make raw honest music with a m… read more
This is the debut solo album from New England songwriter James Keyes. Ruminations is fifteen rough hewn tracks recorded in the basement of an old br… read more
This is the debut solo album from New England songwriter James Keyes. Ruminations is fifteen rough hewn tracks recorded in the basement of an old brothel in Douglas, MA where Babe Ruth … read more
Occupying his own unique space in American music somewhere between the throaty junkyard stomp of Tom Waits and the wild mercurial ramblings of Dylan, James Keyes is a musician who's own sound is just gritty and earthy enough to scare away casual listeners in these times of manufactured pop and just easy enough to make the adventurous a listener for life. It's the cumulative sound of all the folk music that's come before it. Gut-bucket blues, honky-tonk tear jerkers, songs of the road and its endless freedom, dark nights in smoky roadhouses and that long black ache of … read more
Occupying his own unique space in American music somewhere between the throaty junkyard stomp of Tom Waits and the wild mercurial ramblings of Dylan, James Keyes is a musician who's ow… read more
Occupying his own unique space in American music somewhere between the throaty junkyard stomp of Tom Waits and the wild mercurial ramblings of Dylan, James Keyes is a musician who's own sound is just gritty and earthy enough to sc… read more