With the help of Anders, I think I’ve got the best collections of songs I’ve written yet.” “I love to tell stories,” says the bandleader, “and these songs are stories from my heart, my crazy mind and my life.
Endlessly prolific, Keep Coming Back is home to seven new Zito-penned originals, alongside three co-writes with Anders Osborne (plus stellar covers of CCR’s Bootleg and Bob Seger’s Get Out Of Denver). The musicians gave their all to the songs and brought out the best in me.”Īnd like Mike says, it’s all about the songs. This album is raw when it needs to be, subtle, sincere and grooving all the way through. “Trina and I were simpatico in our ideas of what this album would sound and feel like,” recalls Mike, “and she nailed it. Tracked in June at Dockside Studios, Louisiana, the album reunites Mike with The Wheel lineup of Jimmy Carpenter (saxophone/vocals), Scot Sutherland (bass), Rob Lee (drums) and Lewis Stephens (keys), with producer Trina Shoemaker and engineer David Farrell bottling the chemistry. “Having fun and playing music you love and believe in. “This album brings me back to what it’s all about,” says Mike. Released in 2015, Keep Coming Back is both the explanation and vindication for that decision. Perhaps there were some sceptics who questioned Mike’s amicable departure from the Royal Southern Brotherhood last year, after two acclaimed albums that took the A-list outfit to the top of the world. “I love the blues, I love rock ‘n’ roll and I love country music. “Keep Coming Back is all in the title,” explains the songwriter of his latest release on Ruf Records. And yet, wherever his career leads him, Mike always returns to his founding values of honest, original songs, drawn from the emotional depths, twisting the great American genres into bold new shapes. At 44, his backstory is a travelogue that starts in Missouri and finds salvation in Texas, pinballs from solo career to supergroup (and back), dices with both death and glory.
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