08/18/2025
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Announcing 𝑻𝒘𝒐 𝑻𝒓𝒂𝒊𝒏𝒔, the new album from Dave Keyes - coming October 24, 2025 🚂🚂
Mark Pucci Media
Roots and Blues King of the Keys Dave Keyes Is Back With a New Album, Two Trains, Coming October 24 on MoMojo Records, With Special Guests Including Drummer Legend Bernard Purdie
NEW YORK, NY – Four-time Blues Music Award nominee Dave Keyes announces an October 24 release date for his latest album, Two Trains, on the MoMojo Records label, with digital and physical distribution on Bandcamp.
Dave Keyes will be performing at the upcoming Big Blues Bender extravaganza in Las Vegas as part of the Piano Players Celebration on Saturday, September 6th. His official Two Trains album release show and party with his band will take place on Saturday, November 1st, at The Turning Point in Piermont, New York. Showtime is 8 PM. Tickets are $30. (https://piermont.club/shop/)
Two Trains features Keyes co-writing eight of its ten songs with songwriting partner Mark Sameth, who has penned hits as a Nashville writer for Loretta Lynn, and Bettye LaVette among many others. “I’m especially proud of the collaboration with Mark on this disc,” says Keyes. “The songs are topical, both on a personal level and on a world level. There is something here that everyone can relate to: love, loss, joy and pain and how we deal with it all.”
The album features special guest and legendary drummer Bernard Purdie, plus appearances by harmonica ace Rob Paparozzi, (Blues Bros.) Mike Merritt (Jimmy Vivino, Conan O’Brien) Chris Bergson and vocalist Alexis P. Suter in addition to long- time Dave Keyes band stalwarts, drummer Frank Pagano and guitarist John Putnam. A special recording with the late acoustic guitar legend Woody Mann is an added treat. Two Trains was mixed by multi-Grammy Award-winning engineer, Dae Bennett.
“For me this album is about coming home to my roots and paying tribute to all the styles that have influenced me since I was a kid,” adds Keyes. “Blues, boogie, country blues, urban blues, gospel and some funky stuff. From Ray Charles to Leon Russell and everyone in between. I’m not a purist, but I respect my roots and I stand on the shoulders of those that have gotten me here.”
A native New Yorker, keyboardist, singer and songwriter, Dave Keyes is a 40-year veteran of the Blues and American Roots music scenes. His last album, the 2022 release Rhythm, Blues and Boogie, featured legendary drummer Bernard Purdie, who also appears on Two Trains. Having toured the world both as a solo artist and with his own band, Dave Keyes brings his music solidly back to his soulful blues roots on the new disc, along with some electrifying keyboard work. In addition to his Blues Music Award nominations, his band has won the Blues Foundation’s International Blues Challenge and released seven prior acclaimed albums.
For much of the last 10 years, in addition to his own band and solo gigs, Dave worked with bluesman Popa Chubby, and R&R queen Ronnie Spector. Previously Dave had lengthy stints with such iconic and varied artists as Odetta, David Johansen, Bo Diddley, rockabilly legend Sleepy LaBeef and gospel great Marie Knight.
Dave’s music finds its roots in deep blues, soul and rock and roll. These roots are the foundation of his recent albums and vibrant live shows. His well-received previous albums are rambunctious sets of mostly original material that range from New Orleans second-line funk to slow sensual blues, swaggering shuffles and boisterous rocking boogie-woogie.
He has made numerous festival appearances both in the US and abroad including 3 appearances at France’s prestigious Cognac Blues Festival and annual appearances at Lugano, Switzerland’s Blues to Bop festival among many others. He also worked as a sideman for a who’s who of roots, soul and Rock and Roll music masters such as Eddy Clearwater, Big Jay McNeely, Tracy Nelson, Gladys Knight, Pam Tillis, Darlene Love, and the late great Ruth Brown, Lou Rawls and Levon Helm.
Dave’s extensive Broadway and TV music credits include being the conductor for the six-year Broadway run of the Grammy-winning show, “Smokey Joe’s Café.” Other credits include most-recently music directing “Rock and Roll Man,” a show based on the life of trailblazing DJ Alan Freed.
Dave Keyes Two Trains Album Track Listing and Credits
Tracks 2,4,5,6,7,9 and 10 and additional overdubs recorded at Teaneck Sound, Teaneck New Jersey, Dave Kowalski engineer, Andrew Milea, assistant; Rhythm tracks for tracks 1,3 and 8 recorded at Kaleidoscope Sound, Union City, NJ, Kyle Cassel engineer; Additional overdubs recorded at Jaimoe Jams, Tenafly, NJ James Pagano engineer, and Keyesland Studios, Sloatsburg, NY.
Blues Ain’t Lookin’ For You 3:26 Dave Keyes, Mark Sameth/Keyesland Music ASCAP
Boogie Till The Cows Come Home-3:48 Dave Keyes, Mark Sameth/Keyesland Music ASCAP
Two Trains 2:36 Dave Keyes, Mark Sameth/Keyesland Music ASCAP
I’m Alright 5:49 Dave Keyes, Mark Sameth/Keyesland Music/ Benny Turner- Nola Blue Music(BMI)
Long Way From Right Right Now 5:16 Dave Keyes, Mark Sameth/Keyesland Music ASCAP
What Just Happened 3:00 Dave Keyes, Mark Sameth/Keyesland Music ASCAP
Boogie For Patty 5:00 Dave Keyes/Keyesland Music ASCAP
Trust in Love and Fate 5:09 Dave Keyes, Mark Sameth/Keyesland Music ASCAP
Worrying You Off My Mind 3:17 w/special guest Woody Mann -William Lee Conley Broonzy/ Boot House of Tunes BMI
Rest In Peace 2:31 Dave Keyes, Mark Sameth/Keyesland Music ASCAP
Dave Keyes: Piano, B-3. Lead vocals
Bernard “Pretty “Purdie: Drums tracks 1,3, 8
Frank Pagano: Drums tracks 2,4,6, plus Background Vocals tracks 1,2,3,4,6,8
John Putnam: Guitar tracks 1,2,3,4,6,8 and Pedal Steel on track 4
Jeff Anderson: Bass tracks 1,3,8
Mike Merritt: Bass tracks 2,4,6
Rob Paparozzi: Harmonica tracks 1,3,4,5,6
Hasan Bakr: All Percussion
Chris Bergson: Slide guitar track 8
Alexis P. Suter and Vicki Bell: Background Vocals tracks 1,3,4,6
Woody Mann: Guitar and vocal Track 9
Upcoming Dave Keyes Shows
August 22 – Dave Keyes w/ Peter Karp - Sparta Concert Series, Sparta, NJ
August 23 - Dave w/ Peter Karp - Jersey Shore Blues & Jazz Fest, Long Branch, NJ
August 28 - 6-10:00PM - Dave Keyes solo - The Twisted Tail, Philadelphia, PA
September 6 – Dave Keyes - Big Blues Bender, Las Vegas, NV
September 21 - 12:00 Noon - Dave Keyes solo - John Brown's Farm, Lake Placid, NY
Week of October 13 - Dave Keyes solo – tour of France
October 27 – Boogie & Blues Blowout solo - Bitter End, New York, NY
November 1 – Dave Keyes Band Album Release Show – The Turning Point, Piermont, NY
Dave Keyes Hi-Res Cover: http://www.markpuccimedia.com/Dave-Keyes-Two-Trains-Hi-Res-Cover-scaled.jpg
Dave Keyes Hi-Res Photo: http://www.markpuccimedia.com//Dave-Keyes-CD-Back-Cover-Photo-Hi-Res-by-Joseph-Rosen.png
www.davekeyes.com
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