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Willie Nile- Streets Of New York
About Streets Of New York
Amazon.com Those mean streets sound awfully clean on the latest from veteran bard Willie Nile, who here exchanges his raucous rock from the early 1980s for a more tempered approach that prizes poetry over punch. Though the songwriting remains as heartfelt as ever, with plenty of literary flourish, antiseptic arrangements all but drain the propulsion from "Welcome to My Head" and "Best Friends Money Can Buy," while the slow build of "Faded Flower of Broadway" flirts with power-ballad mawkishness. The epic narrative of the autobiographical "Back Home" and the harmonic-laced "Lonesome Dark-Eyed Beauty" find Nile giving his best Bob Dylan impression (Dylan's son Jakob, of the Wallflowers, guests elsewhere on the album), though the title track edges closer to Billy Joel territory. Only the heart-pumping urgency of "Whole World with You" and the feverish cover of Eddy Grant's "Police on My Back" (in homage to the Clash) show Nile really letting it rip as he as in the past. --Don McLeese Review "...If there was any justice in this world, Id be opening up for him instead of him for me." -- LUCINDA WILLIAMS "A great album. I love that Willie Nile has written a song about my idol Bo Diddleythanks Willie." -- LOU REED "Great album!" -- BONO "Willie Niles Streets Of New York is a real gem. Stirring melodies, passionate vocals, intriguing lyricsevery track a winner." -- GRAHAM PARKER "Willies so good I cant believe hes not from New Jersey." -- LITTLE STEVEN
