Willie Nile has been releasing records since the 1980s and while he has always been a remarkably dependable flag bearer of great American rock music, right up there with Dylan, Springsteen and Petty (though admittedly a little more under the radar), his output lately – song for song – has been among his best. Maybe it’s a new muse or some other reason for the reinvigoration, but from 2018’s Children of Paradise on, Nile has been putting out one record after the next, devoid of any skippable songs. The same holds true for The Great Yellow Light, his latest and 21st LP.
From the opening track, “Wild Wild World,” with his familiar, charmingly raspy vocals, through the great cover of The Hooters’ “Washington’s…

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