"Listening to Jim Keller's music makes me feel like I have big plans, no worries and all of my hair." - Tom Waits
JIM KELLER, co-founder of rock band Tommy Tutone, and the co-writer of a song ingrained in the consciousness of a whole generation, is releasing his first album in over a decade, Sunshine In My Pocket.
During a decade away from performing Keller has run the management and publishing companies of Philip Glass. He has returned to refine his pub rock aesthetic into the deeply personal sound heard on Sunshine In My Pocket.
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UPDATE [MARCH 12, 2010]: you can now listen to the NPR World Cafe program with Jim and his band here.
On March 9th, The Jim Keller band perform a live set and are interviewed by David Dye from WXPN in Philadelphia on NPR's World Cafe.
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If you want a license to perform music by Philip Glass, you have to call Glass's company, Dunvagen Music Publishers, whose director is Jim Keller. Keller is fifty-five, tall and lanky, and is also a musician - he sings and plays the guitar - and he recently finished a record, "Sunshine in My Pocket," consisting of songs he has written lately.
With luck, one will sell a million copies, the way another of his songs, "867-5309/Jenny," did, in 1982, when Keller was a member of the band Tommy Tutone, and "Jenny," for a while, was No. 1 on the Top Forty. More in press section...
