record because he’s halfway done
with a true full band follow-up to
American Ride. The songs on his
latest release were intended to
be piano songs from the start. It’s
a special record, a very personal
record, and one he’s waited quite
a while to release.
“It just felt right to me,” he said.
“I always try to follow my instincts
as best as I can and hopefully in
that way the music that I write
and record will sound genuine
and believable. I’ve wanted to
do an album of piano songs for
some time. I’ve got drawers full of
songs of all kinds, but these piano
songs are close to my heart. I love
the simplicity of just sitting at a piano and singing a song, and I first
started out in music playing the
piano. Sometimes less is more,
and this just seemed like one of
those times.”
The universe must have agreed
with him about the timing because Nile was able to record
the album on the same Steinway
Grand piano that he had played
34 years earlier at the Record
Plant on the night John Lennon
was killed. This piano, which was
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