[Cover photo credit to Neilson Hubbard]
Singer-songwriter, recording artist, and performer Bill Scorzari is returning with his 5th and 6th albums as a double project, titled Sidereal Days (Day 1) & (Day 2). The first to be released is Sidereal Days (Day 1) on October 17, 2025. Sidereal Days (Day 2) will be released in 2026.
Scorzari is often compared to folk songwriters who focus on storytelling and emotion, and he tends to examine the human condition in his work. The ten tracks on Sidereal Days (Day 1) are wide-ranging and personal, covering “love and regret.” Some hail from recent songwriting and some have been underway for years. The album was co-Produced by Scorzari and Neilson Hubbard.
Scorzari doesn’t usually write songs that are under four minutes in length, but today we are very pleased to premier the next single from Sidereal Days (Day 1), titled “From Your Heart”, which fits the bill and carries a Country ambience. In fact, it is only 2 minutes and 20 seconds long, however it packs 10 musicians into the recording of it. It arrives this Friday, September 26th, 2025.
Something that seems to be a big part of modern life is the increasing difficulty communicating with others in a personal way, and the related difficulty of forming lasting connections in friendships and romantic romantic relationships. As we seem to move further into disconnection, a song like Scorzari’s “From Your Heart” carries some tightly folded up truths that unfold with surprising profusion in such a short, sweet song. Introduced and delicately supported by wafting strings, the lyrics speak from a place of frank brokenness and acceptance, but turn this state into a welcoming openness towards others. Scorzari invites conversations “from the heart”, assuring the “you” of the song that their common hardships will enable them to connect. Every instrumental contribution on this track is carefully understated, while still allowing a few flourishes. However the orchestration is not without a foundational and structural firmness that carries the weighty subject matter.
“Tell me” becomes an invitation in the song, one that could have big emotional implications. But it’s not something of a psychiatrist’s office where confessions are a one-way street. Instead, the song sets out the conditions of an exchange. The other person will also receive his words “from the heart” about his own “broken dreams.” This agreement underway, some of the topics he suggest they talk about are carefully worded and universal, from the fact that “sometimes things just work out wrong”, to losing someone, to using songwriting and songs to address and memorialize the loves we have experienced. Something else Scorzari verbalizes is how instinctual connections with others can be, and how much can go unsaid in exchanging our life stories. Often it’s what we can see in others right away, their suffering, that creates an instant connection with our own. The song feels like a completed circle, with a successful exchange of stories as a foregone conclusion, so provides a feeling of relief from tension.
Bill Scorzari shares about the track:
“I never know what’s going to happen when I start writing a song. It could be the beginning of a long process that can feel more like working than creating art, at different times in the making of it, or it could be something that’s just pure fun from beginning to end as I get an idea and get excited about how it’s developing and about what else I can do with it as more ideas come to mind.
And then there are the songs that are effortless and seem to write themselves. You sit down with a guitar and the music just comes out of it like it was already written. The melody seems obvious, it’s a given, and the lyrics are already right there and flowing out of the melody. When I feel that start to happen, I know what’s coming, and the only thing that I need to do is keep out of the way of it and let it happen, resisting any thought of trying to get the song to go one way or another, other than where it’s already going, and just trying not to break the spell.
It’s an elusive mind space to be in. I don’t know how it works. I’m just glad that it happens when it does, and ‘From Your Heart’ is one of those songs. When I brought it to Nashville for the Sidereal Days (Day 1) and (Day 2) recording sessions, that spell stayed with the song. You can hear it in the harmony vocal (Megan McCormick), fiddle (Eamon McLoughlin), cello (Chelsea McGough), pedal steel (Juan Solorzano), mandolin (Joshua Britt), dobro (Brad Talley), piano (Danny Mitchell), upright acoustic bass (Michael Rinne) and drums (Co-Producer, Neilson Hubbard). Their performances fit the song as if that’s what they’ve always been and were always meant to be. It’s one of my favorite tracks on the ‘(Day 1)’ album.”
The band for Sidereal Days (Day 1) is Bill Scorzari on lead and harmony vocals, acoustic, classical, baritone, and electric guitars, and piano, Brad Talley on dobro, Chelsea McGough on cello, Cindy Richardson Walker and Marie Lewey (aka The Shoals Sisters) on backing vocals, Danny Mitchell (Miranda Lambert) on piano and Hammond B3 organ, Eamon McLoughlin (the Ryman staff fiddler) on violin/fiddle, Joshua Britt on mandolin, Juan Solorzano on electric, rhythm, and 2nd acoustic guitars, pedal steel, and ganjo, Megan McCormick on harmony vocal, Michael Rinne (Miranda Lambert) on upright acoustic, electric, and hollow body electric bass, and Neilson Hubbard on drums and percussion.
Bill Scorzari self-recorded his instrumentation and vocals for the entire double album at his Huntington, 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.
Then he brought 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.
