Local blues musician Steve Keenan noted he is excited to have new music “In My Hands,” as he just released his long awaited second album.
It has been over 10 years since he released his debut album with his band Fat Baby Jake.
He started recording “ In My Hands” almost exactly a year ago in local musician Paul Kype’s s home studio.
“It’s been over 12 years since my last EP with Fat Baby Jake, Keenan said, noting he revisited and created new arrangements for three older songs “Something New,” “Whiskey Drinking Blues” and “Lucky One,” for the CD.
While it has been a a long time since Keenan released his own album, he has been far from idle, playing his own shows and performing with local musicians Paul Kype and recording on local artists’ CDs including Allan Roy Wilson, Greg Gomola and Papa King.
Band mate Gary Drayton added keyboards to the new arrangements as well as the seven other new songs on the CD.
“ There are a couple of country songs on it and there are some really pretty ballads on it too,” Kennan continued.
“Lucky One’ is an older song that I wrote about being thankful and ‘In My Hands is a newer song I wrote for my daughter about how life changes and about how my daughters have been such a huge benefit to my life,” Keenan continued, noting he enjoyed working on the CD in Paul Kype’s Bearfoot Studio.