Jim Keller Announces Vinilly! — A Europe-Only Vinyl Compilation Celebrating His Late-Career Revival

 

American singer-songwriter Jim Keller returns with Vinilly!, a limited-edition vinyl compilation set for release on May 29, 2026 via Continental Song City. Issued exclusively in Europe and positioned as a Record Store Day 2026 special release, the album collects key tracks from Keller’s recent creative resurgence, spanning his post-2023 output and highlighting a prolific late-career renaissance.

Best known as a founding member of Tommy Tutone, the group behind the classic hit “867-5309/Jenny,” Keller’s career has traversed chart success, industry reinvention, and decades of behind-the-scenes work in music publishing and production. After stepping away from the spotlight, he re-emerged in 2009 with Sunshine in My Pocket, beginning a new chapter that has since produced a steady stream of acclaimed solo albums.

Vinilly! draws from six solo records, including 2024’s Daylight and 2025’s End of the World, the latter featuring the Americana-charting single “Black Dog.” Across twelve tracks, the compilation showcases Keller’s signature blend of pop songwriting, rhythm & blues warmth, and soul-inflected storytelling, reflecting both his early rock roots and his more recent introspective writing style.

Keller’s path back to performing followed an unconventional trajectory. After Tommy Tutone’s rapid rise and dissolution in the early 1980s, he spent over two decades working in music publishing, most notably running the company of influential composer Philip Glass and collaborating with artists such as Tom Waits, Ravi Shankar, and Rufus Wainwright. That period of immersion in diverse musical worlds continues to inform the depth and eclecticism of his recent songwriting.

From reflective ballads like “Sunshine in My Pocket” to upbeat, melodic cuts such as “Modern Girl” and “A Girl Like You,” Vinilly! traces a songwriter reconnecting with performance while refining a voice shaped by experience, collaboration, and time away from the stage.

For long-time fans and new listeners alike, the collection serves as both a retrospective and a reaffirmation—capturing Jim Keller not as a legacy act, but as an active, evolving songwriter in full creative stride.