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After multiple meals and cups of bad coffee at the Snug Harbor on Wilshire Boulevard, with hours wasted talking about every album made before 1972, they decided to work on some music together.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Continental Song City","offers":[{"title":"CD","offer_id":50422614131019,"sku":"2198420","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/test_fe5e4bce_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1726765276"},{"product_id":"by-no-means","title":"By No Means","description":"\u003cp\u003eJim Keller's mix of industrial blues and industrial menace, \u003ci\u003eDon't Get Me Started\u003c\/i\u003e, could turn out to be the definitive song for the pandemic. Keller first got attention years ago when, as part of San Francisco group Tommy Tutone, he co-wrote and performed \u003ci\u003e867-5309\u003c\/i\u003e \"\u003ci\u003eJenny Jenny\u003c\/i\u003e\", a classic power pop tune that made 80's radio so listenable. After migrating to New York, he jumped the fence, running Philip Glass's publishing company and taking over management of Glass's career as director of Dunvagen Music. In 2005, Keller returned to recording and performing and with a voice aged by time, whiskey and promises, he's got the sound of someone who could have been Tom Petty's therapist. He's made three solo albums to date\u003ci\u003e Sunshine In My Pocket \u003c\/i\u003e(2005), \u003ci\u003eSoul Candy\u003c\/i\u003e (2011) and \u003ci\u003eHeaven Can Wait\u003c\/i\u003e (2014). 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. By No Means has been written with longtime collaborator Byron Isaacs (The Lumineers, Levon Helm), produced by Mitchell Froom (Los Lobos, Crowded House, Randy Newman) and Backed by Los Lobos' David Hidalgo on guitar It's the phrasing that hooks you, sly and all knowing but still waiting to be told that one secret that might make it all worth it, that might make sense of this whole crazy mess.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Continental Song City","offers":[{"title":"CD","offer_id":50460089352523,"sku":"1122678","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/ddc70705-9391-46c3-a91c-756d10188a61_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727229271"},{"product_id":"end-of-the-world-ci","title":"End Of The World","description":"\u003cp\u003eA 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Continental Song City","offers":[{"title":"CD","offer_id":53512392573259,"sku":"R8482-1156","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/8713762012137.jpg?v=1759328391"},{"product_id":"vinylly-1","title":"Vinylly!","description":"\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eNo one can say Jim Keller hasn't been busy - Since his last European shows in 2023, he's recorded and released two albums, 2024's \u003cem\u003eDaylight \u003c\/em\u003eand 2025's \u003cem\u003eEnd of the World\u003c\/em\u003e - He's toured the United States - And while he intends to get back to Europe this year, he's first giving his fans a treat: \u003cem\u003eVinylly!\u003c\/em\u003e, a collection of his greatest hits.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eThe record includes a dozen songs spanning the six albums of his late- career renaissance, four decades after he and his band, Tommy Tutone, topped the charts with \"867-5309\/Jenny.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eBorn 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, Ravi Shankar, and Rufus Wainwright.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eIn 2009, Keller returned to performing and recording with Sunshine In My Pocket, the first in a series of critically acclaimed solo records. His latest album, End of the World, spawned the hit \"Black Dog\" and has been riding the Americana charts since its release at the end of October.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eTime to reflect on the best songs in the revival career of New York's best kept rocking songwriter secret, So finally here's Vinylly!\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Continental Song City","offers":[{"title":"LP - Black","offer_id":57158518309195,"sku":"R4648-6851","price":26.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/a1053601277_1x1_700.avif?v=1777488824"}],"url":"https:\/\/shop.roughtrade.com\/de\/collections\/jim-keller.oembed","provider":"Rough Trade","version":"1.0","type":"link"}