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HUNTINGTON, NY — Bill Scorzari, a New York-based singer-songwriter, recording artist, and performer, releases his 6th independent studio album, Sidereal Days (Day 2), September 25, 2026. Sidereal Days (Day 2) is the second part of a double album, following Sidereal Days (Day 1). Meticulous with his words and musical craftsmanship, often called a “writer’s writer,” Bill’s been compared, in parts, with Sam Baker, Bruce Springsteen, Kris Kristofferson, Townes Van Zandt, and Leonard Cohen. What distinguishes Scorzari as he examines the human condition is his distinctive voice, which can be subtle and striking at the same time.

Scorzari’s music is wide-ranging and deeply personal. Bill’s inspiration comes from just about everything that’s ever been around him. Sometimes it’s a dream, a news story, a personal experience, something he’s read, a coiled telephone cord, a conversation he’s overheard or had, something he or someone else has said or done, or something else. Usually, it’s a combination of many things that he joins together to support the story that a song is telling.

In the eleven tracks on Sidereal Days (Day 2) (as well as the ten tracks on Day 1), it is evident that Bill is dedicated to finding meaning and interconnectedness as he takes his time through his songs, thoroughly returning to earlier points in life where he was, before moving them forward. Often presented in the form of a conversation, there are songs of love and reflection; songs that came to him quickly and others that took years to complete; songs with multiple layers and others that are short and sublime—balancing the radio-ready with long and contemplative. Scorzari’s music is sensitive to the level of clarity he seeks for himself, and his arrangements are strong and poignant.

The band for Sidereal Days (Day 2) is Bill 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.

“There’s an intuition that develops between musicians when they know their instrument and the language of music well, and it allows them to anticipate what each other will play in a song even before they play it,” says Bill about the recording process. “This happened throughout the Nashville sessions and is part of what made the performances on the Sidereal Days recordings so good.”

Delving Into the Tracks (a handful of singles are out early– linked to below):

Setting the cadence as we start our journey into Day 2, “I Know You Know” is an upbeat traveling song and a tender love song all rolled into one. Bill says, “I asked Juan Solorzano to play the electric guitar part for “I Know You Know” like Mick Taylor, and he not only nailed it but also went above and beyond with his guitar mastery. He also played the ganjo track that can be heard in the background throughout the recording.

“I Stayed” is a stunning love-lost ballad and features Scorzari’s lead vocals and acoustic guitar in a duet with Erin Rae on harmony and “The Shoal’s Sisters”—Marie Lewey and Cindy Richardson Walker—on backing vocals.

“I Think It’s Gonna Rain” is a great example of the players syncing up, with Bill joining together multiple, disparate inspirations to tell a unified story. While spending time in the Gulf of Mexico in 2012, Bill experienced an incredible lightning and thunderstorm (with lightning striking the building he was in), a close-up encounter with a huge Greater Sandhill Crane, and a book that he had found in a model train store with a conductor’s stories about steam trains, and combined them with some other things to create the lyrics for this song. Bill dug up the audio of the thundering sounds from a video he took that night and added it onto the end of this track. The train-whistle’s pattern in the song, signals a train changing tracks.

“It Keeps Me On The Run” is a lush tapestry of instruments and voices interwoven into sequential, dreamlike soundscapes.

“Middle Class Middle Child” is another combination of combining multiple sources of inspiration and, while not as literally autobiographical as they might seem, the sentiment and emotions are. It’s also the longest song on the (Day 2) album, clocking in at six and a half minutes.

Gentle and grounded in innocence and simplicity, some of the lyrics to “Open Door” came to Bill in the warming temperatures of the late winter/early springtime of 2013. He says, “I was in a car on Long Island waiting for a traffic light to change when I looked to the side of the road and saw a small stream of water coming from the snow that was melting on the ground in the early morning sunshine, and I thought, ‘Your love, it’s like an open, it’s like an open, an open door. It’s tender, tender as sunshine, sun in the springtime melting snow.’

“Sandcastles Waiting” starts with a melody that captures an abundance of emotion. Bill says, ”I started writing the music for this song in the Outer Banks, North Carolina. I needed to find the right chords in the right sequence for the melody to emerge out of. It was different from my usual approach to writing… This time I sensed a direction as soon as I started playing, and I began to chase it down. It was a long process. I’d get close, but it kept slipping through my fingers, so I kept putting the song down and coming back to it to try and gather it up again and get it to finally stand on its own… It was very much like building a sandcastle. It seemed fragile and precarious at every step, and I knew that I had to proceed carefully to make it work. I felt that if I approached it the wrong way, it would crumble and get washed away.” After years of rewrites, Bill captured the final lyrics in 2024 while recording the Sidereal Days albums.

“So Much To Say On Rainy Days” just might be the most angst-laden song on this release; it was written in moments of great personal struggle but also of great personal triumph. Bill says, “It isn’t until you’ve been pushed well beyond the places where you feel safe and secure that you learn how much more you can actually bear and overcome. And, once you realize that it’s more than you had ever believed, everything changes, and you are stronger.”

Written with simplicity in mind, “That’s A Good Thing” comes in as a close contender for “short song” honors, at a mere three minutes and fourteen seconds with Erin Rae joining Bill in the 2nd vocal part. With a light, upbeat feel, this song is a great counterpoint to some of the other heavier and longer songs that also have a happy home on this release.

“Time Is A River Now” was written twenty years ago and was intended as a folk song, but when Bill started recording it and added his electric guitar part, it went in such a totally different direction that it wound up being a bit of an outlier on this release and a pretty rockin’ song. Bill says, “There’s something to be said for pushing boundaries and for ‘goin’ electric’ from time to time.”

Adding another layer to the thematic significance of the new album’s title, Sidereal Days, “Sweet Surrender (Reprise)” is a stripped-down track (vocal and acoustic guitar only) that recalls Bill’s debut album, Just The Same, in which “Sweet Surrender” was the closing track.

Bill says, “As far as the title, Sidereal Days, I liked the concept of a pure descriptor of the moment when something returns to where it had previously been, without consideration of how it was otherwise moving. It seemed fitting for these two albums, which contain many earlier written songs that I chose to revisit and record at this time.” [Sound-it-out pronunciation of title: SIGH-DEER-ee-uhl Dayz — Defined: the time for one complete rotation of the earth relative to the distant stars, which is about 4 minutes shorter than a mean solar day.]

Born in New York and residing on Long Island, Bill went from being a New York trial lawyer to a full-time musician after he started writing songs again in 2008 (inspired by watching a Paste video session of Justin Townes Earle’s “Mama’s Eyes”). He has independently released five studio albums to date, including Just the Same (2014), Through These Waves (2017), Now I’m Free (2019), The Crosswinds of Kansas (2022), and Sidereal Days (Day 1) (October 17, 2025). 

Sidereal Days (Day 1) was well regarded by the press and in Americana/Alt Country Radio. Influential and longstanding music critic Robert Christgau gave the album an “A” rating in his “And It Don’t Stop – Consumer Guide,” noting Bill’s “amorous vulnerability,” and listed the album on his Dean’s List of Best Albums of 2025. It was also in year end lists by Tom Hull, Paul Busch in Outside My Inside, Jeff Burger in The Aquarian, XPN Host Keith Kelleher’s Sleepy Hollow, Jonathan Aird in Americana UK, Hugh Fogel in Alt Country NL, Hub Sligchers in Sounds (Netherlands), and The Roots Music Reports’ Top Contemporary Folk Album Chart.

Scorzari’s sixth release, Sidereal Days (Day 2), will be out on September 25, 2026.

Early Reviews of Sidereal Days (Day 2):

“Bill can always be counted on to write the most heartfelt lyrics in the place. [“I Stayed”] is about that feeling of being strung along in a relationship, and trying to find either a solution or the way out: ‘I didn’t throw small words your way. I was faithful and true to your dreams each day, and I didn’t turn and go. I stayed. I stayed. I stayed.’ The harmony vocals by Erin Rae are a superlatively nice touch.”
—Americana Highways, Melissa Clarke

“Scorzari very much encompasses the heart and the spirit of the great singer-songwriters. He is supremely focused on his words and the craftsmanship of the music… He frequently returns to earlier times in his life before moving them forward. Many of the songs are presented in the form of a conversation. Some of the songs focus on love and self-reflection, while others are more spontaneous. Some of these tracks came quickly to him, while others were labours of love that took years to complete. The arrangements are all passionate and moving, and work very well when meshed together.”
—V13, Aaron Willschick

“We find Bill Scorzari in a more upbeat and tranquil mood, with ‘Open Door’ being a folky love song featuring traditional acoustic instruments and a vocal duet with Megan McCormick.”
—Americana UK, Jonathan Aird

“Starting quietly on guitar with just a whisper of dobro and pedal steel the mood set [in “That’s a Good Thing” with] kind of a reflective, everyday kind of hopefulness. The matter-of-fact vocal delivery matches that tone and conveys a powerful story of heartfelt tenderness about the ups and downs of life.”
—Jack Mesenbourg

What Folks Say About Sidereal Days (Day 1)

“If this is your introduction to Scorzari’s one-of-a-kind music, be prepared for his exceptionally literate lyrics, nuanced guitar picking, and, primarily, his scratchy, leather-worn, half-whispery voice…”
—Jim Hynes, Making a Scene

“The New York singer-songwriter, Bill Scorzari, never disappoints, and this 5th album sees him playing guitar and piano across 10 sincere songs that draw parallels to Cash, Springsteen and Cohen.”
—Take Effect Reviews, Tom Haugen (9/10)

“But damn—for those who lean in—each of his word-heavy creations feels like it is created by a master. Because they are… Part confessional, part documentation of love during our times,

Scorzari takes his listeners on a journey through his heart and, as trite as it seems, soul.”
—Donald Teplyske, Fervor Coulee

“A musician with a poet’s heart—and ear… Close listening is rewarded by the use of subtle internal rhyme, repetition, and imagery throughout the songs.”
—Nancy Posey, Music City Magazine

“He has a hypnotic way with searing lyrics and gruffly emotive vocals.”
—Rob Dickens, Listening Through the Lens (Aus)

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