Willie Nile - American Ride [Rock]

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Artist: Willie Nile
Album: American Ride
Bitrate: 239kbps avg
Quality: EAC Secure Mode / LAME 3.98.4 / -V0 / 44.100Khz
Label: Blue Rose Records
Genre: Rock
Size: 74.00 megs
PlayTime: 0h 40min 55sec total
Rip Date: 2013-06-07
Store Date: 2013-06-21

Track List:
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01. This Is Our Time                 2:47
02. Life On Bleecker Street          3:25
03. American Ride                    4:53
04. If I Ever See The Light          3:08
05. She's Got My Heart               3:10
06. God Laughs                       3:14
07. People Who Died                  3:52
08. Holy War                         4:03
09. Say Hey                          2:56
10. Sunrise In New York City         2:51
11. The Crossing                     3:13
12. There's No Place Like Home       3:23

Release Notes:
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While Willie Nile has been producing high quality rockin?albums, off and on,
since 1980, he didn抰 get on my radar screen until his 2011 The Innocent Ones.
In my exuberantly affirmative BlogCritics review of that exuberantly affirmative
release, one of the adjectives I used was 搃nfectious.?That term partly meant I
was infected with the hopes there would be more new music coming. At the time, I
had the same sort of feeling I had when I first heard Born To Run. It抯 not
often I get excited about a new discovery anymore.

I was far from alone. To avoid being locked into corporate label squabbles,
during 2012 Nile funded the production of American Ride using a successful
fan-based PledgeMusic campaign. The plan was to release the album independently
this past April. That抯 the review copy I have. However, Loud & Proud president
Tom Lipsky heard the album and approached Nile about doing a major label
distribution deal. The result was American Ride being pushed back to late June
with the first big label support Nile抯 had since his disappointing Arista days.

Loud & Proud made a few other changes. The cover art for American Ride was
redone. Judging from the track list on my copy and what is posted online, many
tracks were re-organized. For example, on the independent version 揟his is Our
Time?is the opener, the Loud & Proud version apparently kicks off with the
title song. I have no problem with 揂merican Ride,?but when I heard the first
lines of 揟his is Our Time,?I knew Nile抯 new album was going to be more than
infectious. By the time I抎 heard all 12 songs, I knew this collection was even
better than The Innocent Ones.

In whatever order you hear the songs, American Ride features Nile on vocals,
piano, and guitar, as well as co-producing with Grammy winner Stewart Lerman.
He抯 supported by his live band梘uitarist Matt Hogan, bassist Johnny Pisano, and
drummer Alex Alexander. Innocent Ones alumni who came along for the ride
included Lerman, Frankie Lee (who co-wrote four tracks this time around), and
Eagles?guitarist Steuart Smith. I can抰 help but think all hands on board had a
great time plugging in their parts in the studio. Whatever life force drives
Nile, it sounds contagious.

It抯 dangerous to compare these songs with those by other folks who came before,
but it抯 clear Nile draws from and is re-invigorating a very rich tradition. For
example, the travelogue in time and place begins with 揂merican Ride?with
touches of folk rock in a light Springsteen/Dylanesque mode. Nile co-wrote the
title song with The Alarm抯 Mike Peters. 揕ife On Bleecker Street?has Ray
Davies-like descriptive imagery of residents on the street, but the lyrical hard
times are belied by the party atmosphere of the music.

Speaking of The Boss, the piano of 揑f I Ever See the Light?is pure E Street
Band in a triumphant anthem about punching the singer抯 fist through that
metaphorical light. On the other end of the spectrum, 揝he抯 Got My Heart?is a
simple love ballad where his lady has her mother抯 smile, her father抯 eyes, and
the singer抯 heart. What if God was one of us? Nile抯 ironic answer to that is
in 揋od Laughs,?co-written with Eric Bazilian of The Hooters. In a similar
vein, Nile gets punkish with Jim Carroll抯 揚eople Who Die,?recorded as a
tribute to both Carroll, who passed away in 2009, and to Nile抯 late brother
John.

With a guitar nod to 揂ll Along the Watchtower,?Nile sings 揋od is great, but
you抮e not?in the obviously angry, topical 揌oly War.?Up yours, Jihadists
everywhere. Then, 揝ay Hey?does what the Stray Cats might have done if they had
more players onstage, including choruses supported by a jazzy horn section. The
jaunty 揝unrise In New York City?gets pushed back to near the end on the new
version, but it抯 a cakewalk of happy good morning music whenever you hear it.

Appropriately, the ride slows down with 揟he Crossing,?a ballad soliloquy
honoring those who made it to the other side for liberty抯 sake. I picture
Washington crossing the Delaware, but that抯 perhaps my interpretation. Finally,
everything comes full circle with vivid imagery of the folky 揟here抯 No Place
Like Home.?It抯 a Pete Seeger kind of sing-along where Nile tells us Dorothy
got it right.

Trust me, trust me, trust me梱ou抮e going to want American Ride in your life.
Unless you really prefer gray dour days listening to wrist-slashing music only a
Satanist would love, Willie Nile is not only the medicine for what ails you, but
he may well get you pumped up to go out and challenge all things earthly,
spiritual, and metaphysical. Remember that name梂illie Nile. Pre-order it, pop
it in, turn it up, and spread the word. It抯 his time.


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