few minutes ago, a friend who last night was like me in the audience of the concert in Rome at the Big Mama Willie Nile, and that there had bought the reissue of an old disc of unreleased rocker York I wrote: "What a beautiful album, what songs, and sounds. If Willie did not come out with that, it means that it was not destiny. " That disc is "Places I Have Never Been." He left in 1991, after years when, after being among the many new Dylan and Springsteen of the new troops fed, and have also opened, including the two beautiful albums published earlier in the decade preceding the American concerts of The Who, Willie had to put the brakes on more mitivi artistic exuberance. In these compositions, but the new broods long, he had poured all their skills and their hopes. Lyrics to the Byrds ("Rite of Spring," with Roger McGuinn), powerful rock with a social background that winked to U2 ("Heaven Help the Lonely"), electric folk, but with the spirit of Pete Seeger (Everybody Needs A Hammer) and write so well that few ballads ("Yesterday's Dream"), were not served that much to hand over the keys to that world of rock songwriters in which plants were Springsteen, Tom Petty, and then, Steve Earle. Rather, it is not a result at all contemptible, have removed the brake to the career of an author of immense talent who seemed to have lost her through the streets of New York.
Since then, when that little engine poetry and songs has taken a turn, even with the comfort of a European public attention from the early nineties is spoiled if the (replacement) as it deserves, Willie Nile has put together a row of album (not many, nor few, just a mini, and three in the studio, plus a couple of live gigs, the last of which - "From the Streets of New York" - accompanied by a nice dvd) that have never disappointed those who follow him closely. "House of a Thousand Guitars" has surprisingly the same characteristics as "Beautiful Wreck of the World" (1999) and "Streets of New York" (2006): it is full of passion and hope, despite the years pass and the range of future professional should be inexorably shrinking for this generous actor in the rock scene more sincere and sanguine. Nile is still intact that desire, expressed by "On the Road to Calvary" (a delicate memory of Jeff Buckley) and "The Day I Saw Bo Diddley in Washington Square" (sung with Jakob Dylan), to look with admiration to the work of those who went next door and is gone.
celebrates, as do the live shows this minute but extremely energetic performer, and the great summer of rock'n'roll that now seems to have left its central position in the confused and fragmented market of two thousand . Just listen to the first bars of the song and read the first verses to understand it. "There is not a dry eye in the house of a thousand guitars when he sings the old Hank, for that suffering that only love can bring / Can you hear me Bob Dylan and the Rolling Stones in the house of a thousand guitars / and Muddy Waters and John Lennon / ... there is a single broken rope in the house of a thousand guitars. " He writes everything with happiness, true, to still be around here, to tell the good that has yet to say. "Welcome to what goes on in my head!" Cries at the beginning of his concerts before the old "Welcome to my Head". "Beware of what is happening now," cried the first attack, on stage, a medley of Ramones, accompanied by his European band that is accompanying him on tour (Jorge Otero + & Rigo Robby).
Nile is immersed in his journey through the roots of rock'n'rol so that nourished him, but always opens a few windows on the world that is close to many and that we all want to improve. When presenting itself "Across the River" with only piano, remember to have written "about thirty years ago, after watching the New York Times photo of an African woman bent down to earth with his dying child on his shoulders" in the present "Back Home" sends a thought to who now has a home for lost (the reference is to the Friends of Abruzzo, L'Aquila, which, in a charming venue of the historic center has been destroyed, hosted its first Italian concert in 1992).
The disc is not without episodes which provide even the youthful energy of rock and roll: "Run", nicely poised between the roughness of the Clash, Buddy Holly and the candor of the fluidity of the best Heartbreakers, is the proof ( "I have the beat of the universe that makes me burst the veins / The sound of the stratosphere that echoes in my brain / I have the rainbow colors on my palette / shivering wildly when you look), but there are meditative, reflecting the Nile feeling more contemporary. That 's what the intense, ripe "Love Is a Train * (his" Land of Hope and Dreams ") and" Now That the War Is Over, "which with the plane and an elegant accompaniment of the cello excels where Christopher Hoffman, screams quietly insightful words of contempt for the American government outgoing. All the colors of Willie Nile is here, in the house of a thousand guitars that also flashes of hope, as Give Me Tomorrow "which is a pleasure to let through (" I was in the pouring rain / in a strange world ... a lot '/ But I saw where things change / deliver the future now ").
anyone tampers with the calendar, the time and still do that Springsteen has made up, do not say much, but at least two of these songs (do "Run" and "When the Last Light Goes Out on Broadway") and has included in Working on a Dream. We? ___________________________________________________
Nile is turning to Italy, where it plans to return in the summer for some festival. For now, the future starts tonight with two performances in Montale near Modena (May 8 - The piles) and Bergamo (May 9 - Auditorium Piazza della Libertà ). Along with this sensitive artist, who live and knows how to communicate like few that still firmly in place among those who know how to tell the life with the simplicity of these, a trio of exception. Why Jorge Otero (guitar, but also in the studio bassist and mandolin) has already played for Elliott Murphy, and Rigo & Robby, or Antonio Righetti Pellati and Robby are the former Rocking Chairs and long rhythm section accompanied by Ligabue already Nile on tour in Italy years ago. Rigo, who opened the show with songs from her recent "Troubles & Smiles," will speak in the coming days.
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