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Published on 2026-03-27
Photo: Courtesy of Bill Scorzari / Neilson Hubbard
HUNTINGTON, NY — The third track from singer-songwriter, recording artist, and performer Bill Scorzari‘s impending sixth independent studio album, Sidereal Days (Day 2), which is scheduled to be released on September 25, 2026, is available to stream now. “Open Door” is an upbeat, folky love song featuring traditional acoustic instruments and a vocal duet with Scorzari and Megan McCormick.
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.’”
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, melting snow, a conversation he’s overheard or had, something he or someone else has said or done, and more. Usually, it’s a combination of many things that he joins together to support the story that a song is telling.
There are two other singles from Sidereal Days (Day 2) streaming now. The first, “I Stayed,” is a stunning love-lost ballad that features Scorzari’s lead vocals and acoustic guitar in a duet with Erin Rae on harmony and “The Shoals Sisters”—Marie Lewey and Cindy Richardson Walker—on backing vocals. Americana Highways’ Melissa Clarke writes, “Bill can always be counted on to write the most heartfelt lyrics in the place. This one 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 second single, “That’s A Good Thing,” is a tender Americana country roots love song, written with simplicity in mind. Coming in as a close contender for “short song” honors, at a mere three minutes and fourteen seconds. Rae joins Bill in the 2nd vocal part over acoustic guitar, dobro, pedal steel, mandolin, banjo, piano, upright bass, and drums, highlighted with the tasteful fiddle of Eamon McLoughlin. Its light, upbeat feel makes this song a great counterpoint to some of the other heavier and longer songs that also have a happy home on this release.
Sidereal Days (Day 2) is the second part of a double album, which includes Sidereal Days (Day 1) [released on October 17, 2025]. (Day 1) was well regarded by the press and in Americana/Alt Country radio. Influential and longstanding music critic Robert Christgau gave Sidereal Days (Day 1) an “A” rating in his “And It Don’t Stop – Consumer Guide,” noting Bill’s “amorous vulnerability,” and Tom Hull listed the album in his “Best Non-Jazz Albums of 2025” at #11.
Stream Sidereal Days (Day 1): http://billscorzari.hearnow.com/sidereal-days-day-1.
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. His lyrics are often presented in the form of a conversation.
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.
Bill reflects on the recording process: “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. This happened throughout the Nashville sessions and is part of what made the performances on the Sidereal Days recordings so good.”
Four further singles will be released leading up to the full album, which is out September 25th.
“I Think It’s Gonna Rain” is a haunting, cinematic composition about a thunderstorm, a steam train, a Sandhill Crane, and an existential moment and change. Written during a Florida thunderstorm, watching lightning repeatedly strike a distant island late into the night. Bill says, “At 3am, it struck and physically shook the 10-story building I was in that was right on the Gulf of Mexico.” 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.
“I Know You Know” is an upbeat traveling song and a tender love song all rolled into one. The song speaks about that connection that exists in relationships when you know someone so well that you know how they think and how they respond to things, to the point where you can predict what they’ll say or do in a given situation. “And I love the way that you can hear my thoughts even when I am just thinking them. And, the way that I can tell just when you know, well, that I know just what you’re thinkin’. I know. You know.”
Bill says, “I asked Juan 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. Danny’s piano part has a similar feel to it, which, together with his Hammond B3 track and Brad’s Dobro lines, adds a certain atmospheric quality that I love for this song. Neilson’s drumming and Mike’s electric bass lines are always spot on and thoughtfully musical, and they keep the groove and the momentum going while artfully stepping in and out of the arrangement, modulating the dynamics of the song in all of the right places. An even more dramatic and emotionally impactful use of this technique, of adding and subtracting groups of instruments from different parts of a song’s arrangement for dynamic effect, occurs in the next single, ‘Middle Class Middle Child.’”
The lyrics to “Middle Class Middle Child” are another combination of 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. Twelve instruments and three vocalists drop in and out of this arrangement in various combinations as each section of this song takes you to a new level of emotion with a story that will captivate.
“Sandcastles Waiting” started 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 than 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 to 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 be washed away.” After years of rewrites, Bill captured the final lyrics in 2024 while recording the Sidereal Days albums.
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: 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.]
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