The debut album of Rawstars from Roma, led by songwriter Francesco Lucarelli, inevitably oscillates between the concrete and tested American sound of the many guests – from keyboardist Mike Finnigan, who died in 2021 after beeing a lifetime part the great family Crosby Stills and Nash, to Jackson Browne’s Hammond player Jeff Young, and the multi-instrumentalists Greg Leisz (Tom Petty, Ryan Adams’ Whiskeytown) and Jeff Pevar (of David Crosby’s CPR) – and the sincere enthusiasm of the four guys which embraces that sonic world after years of listening that have elevated their capabilities and that brought that much-loved musical culture to our recording studios and stages.
The eleven songs serve a tasty mix that offers rock lashes alongside more meditated tunes, in which the inevitable palette of colors emerges as a result from both the quoted session players and the sources of inspiration that the band never hides. Examples is the more acoustic “Fly someday”, or the blues tinged “If I were an angel” and the pleasantly mainstream of “Watching the show ”. This set of songs is an affresco that owes a lot to the Californian music from the Seventies. Interesting and not casual is that this solid band left his mark in the new work of Ralph Molina’s Crazy Horse, an upcoming album to which Rawstars have actively contributed.
Tracklist:
1.Sometime
2.Watching the show
3.Don’t lock me down
4.Paper girl
5.Faster than the light (F.Lucarelli/M.V.Cecilia)
6.Follow you
7.If I were an angel
8.Let me take you higher
9.Fly someday (F.Lucarelli/M.V.Cecilia)
10.Summer night blues
11.How could I have been so blind? (F.Lucarelli/M.Molino/M.V.Cecilia)
All songs by Francesco Lucarelli except where noted.
