Bill’s sincere lyrics—sometimes soft-spoken, sometimes earnest and growling—aim straight at the heart. Often referred to as a “writer’s writer,” Bill traded his life as a New York trial lawyer for full-time musicianship when he returned to songwriting in 2008. Paying careful attention to each word and musical note, he ponders existential moments and the nature of change through his music.
The eleven tracks on Sidereal Days (Day 2) (as well as the ten tracks on Day 1) offer a multi-chapter arc dedicated to finding meaning and interconnectedness. Scorzari takes his time through the sprawling narrative of the songs, thoroughly returning to earlier points in life where he was, before moving them forward, mirroring the cosmic concept of a sidereal day.
This deeply personal music is filled with compassion and a contemplative spirit. The pieces blend various musical inspirations to create a rich soundscape with interwoven instruments and voices that capture a full spectrum of human emotion, from love and longing to wistful dreaming to personal struggle and triumphs.
There are songs of affection and reflection, songs with multidimentional textures, and others that are short and sublime. Some came to him quickly, and others took years to complete. Balancing the radio-ready with the long and contemplative, Scorzari’s music is sensitive to the level of clarity he seeks for himself, brought to life through strong, poignant orchestration.
Twelve instrumentalists and five vocalists drop in and out of the arrangements in various combinations throughout. The album features Scorzari on lead and harmony vocals, acoustic and electric guitars, mandolin, and banjo; Brad Talley on Dobro; Chelsea McGough on cello; Cindy Richardson Walker and Marie Lewey (aka The Shoals Sisters) on backing vocals; Danny Mitchell on piano, Hammond B3 organ, flugelhorn, and trumpet; Eamon McLoughlin on violin/fiddle; Erin Rae on harmony vocals; Joshua Britt on mandolin and mandola; Juan Solorzano on electric, electric slide, and electric baritone guitars, pedal steel, and ganjo; Megan McCormick on harmony vocals; Michael Rinne on upright acoustic and electric bass; and Neilson Hubbard on drums and percussion.
Bill self-recorded his instrumentation and vocals for the entire double album at his New York studio, First Thunder Recording. It was there that, starting in July of 2022, Bill laid out all of his parts and fine-tuned his compositions over two years’ time before bringing those recordings to Skinny Elephant Recording in Nashville in August 2024 to continue with engineer Dylan Alldredge, with Bill and Neilson Hubbard co-producing. The final mixes were completed by engineer Nic Coolidge at Dead Pop Studios in Providence, RI, in early 2025, and engineer Hallie Melton completed the mastering in April 2025 in Nashville.
Featured image by by Neilson Hubbard.
SOURCE: Official Bio
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