Singer-songwriter, recording artist, and performer Bill Scorzari independently releases the first in a series of singles from his upcoming double albums: Sidereal Days (Day 1) and Sidereal Days (Day 2). A romantic ballad, “All This Time,” is out now.
Bill says, “This song came to me all at once, nearly writing itself in just one brief sitting. Yes, it’s one of those songs! Like when you fully intend to work hard and long for something, and it’s suddenly gifted to you instead. I wrote it many, many years ago, and I can’t think of any good reason why I didn’t record it sooner. To me, the beauty of this song is in the concise simplicity of its lyrical content and melodic phrasing. Both are understated while still saying everything, and nothing more.”
All this time, it’s true.
I’ve been lookin’ for a love like you.
I thought my search would never end and then I knew
I’ve been lookin’ for a love like you.
Americana Highways premiered the song and writes, “Bill Scorzari just keeps getting better as time goes by. His vocals are vulnerable and as honest as his musical forms of expression.”
“All This Time” features Bill playing nylon-stringed classical guitar and his vocals. He is accompanied by Juan Solorzano’s melodic second acoustic guitar and haunting pedal steel swells, Neilson Hubbard’s cinematic drums and percussion, Danny Mitchell’s tender piano, and a symphonic string section that includes Eamon McLoughlin on violin and Chelsea McGough on cello, as well as Mike Rinne on upright acoustic bass.
Bill self-recorded his instrumentation and vocals for this song—and 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 will be two music videos for “All This Time,” one of which was in the studio. The other is an official concept video filmed along the streets near the border of Tennessee and Western Kentucky and at a train depot in Nashville near the Cumberland River.
About Sidereal Days (Day 1) & (Day 2):
Bill says, “I’m going to set ‘All This Time’ aside for about four minutes more of the Earth’s present rotation around the Sun, to talk about the album titles: A ‘sidereal day’ is the time that it takes for the Earth to rotate once on its axis relative to the fixed stars or inertial space, which is approximately 23 hours, 56 minutes, and 4.091 seconds. A ‘solar day’ is almost four minutes longer; the Earth has to rotate a little bit further for its rotation to reach the same position relative to the Sun, because it’s also moving around the Sun while rotating on its axis. Astronomers rely on ‘sidereal clocks’ because any given star will transit the same meridian at the same sidereal time throughout the year.”
“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,” says Bill. “It seemed fitting as a title for these two albums, which contain many earlier written songs that I chose to revisit and record for this release. ‘All This Time’ is a song that I’ve often wanted to record, and I’m glad to have finally gotten around to doing it.”
Bill Scorzari’s Music-Career-Highlights and History:
Based in Huntington, NY, Bill Scorzari has independently released four studio albums to date, including Just the Same (2014), Through These Waves (2017), Now I’m Free (2019), and The Crosswinds of Kansas (2022). His forthcoming 2025 release will consist of two new studio albums, respectively titled Sidereal Days (Day 1) and Sidereal Days (Day 2).
Scorzari’s discography includes accompanying performances by Chris Scruggs, Kim Richey, Joachim Cooder, Laur Joamets, Marie Lewey, Cindy Richardson Walker (a/k/a “The Shoals Sisters”), Jonah Tolchin, Neilson Hubbard, Eamon McLoughlin, Erin Rae, Will Kimbrough, Brent Burke, Matt Menefee, Kyle Tuttle, Michael Rinne, Danny Mitchell, and more.
His music has been premiered by Billboard (“delicately nuanced and detailed arrangements”), The Bluegrass Situation, Glide, Americana Highways (“deeply personal and affecting”), and others, and has received critical acclaim from No Depression, Americana UK, and many more as well.
Acoustic Guitar says, “Bill Scorzari transcends titles like songwriter or poet. He catapults past categories into a dark, ruminative, and ultimately life-affirming realm where family folklore, memories, pain, prayer, and incantation meet.”
Semipop Life’s Brad Luen noted that Crosswinds is, “A writer’s record for sure, the most singular thing about it is Scorzari’s... voice, full of tenderness and clarity as well as character… an artful study of a constant explorer, full of little anecdotes and not-quite-jokes… about the process of questing more than the outcome… Best American road music since Harpoons-era Ezra Furman.”
Scorzari’s albums have been included on “year-end-best-of” lists by Folk Alley, Making A Scene, Americana Highways, Americana UK, and more. Tom Hull listed The Crosswinds of Kansas as one of ‘The Best Non-Jazz Albums of 2023,’ writing, “Seems like the surest way to a high grade around here is to remind me of John Prine, which happens when his usual Dylan gets off on a story. A-.”
And in 2024, Robert Christgau ranked Crosswinds at #40 on his “The Best 84 Albums of 2023 (or so)” Consumer Guide list. Christgau wrote, “I strongly suggest you follow along [with the lyric book] while you listen, which I even more strongly suggest.”
Bill has charted on The Weekly Top 50 Alternative Folk chart—with a song at #4 and with an album at #8—and on The NACC Folk chart with an album at #15. Crosswinds of Kansas placed #71 on the Alt Country Specialty Chart 2022 year-end Top 100, and Through These Waves was #1 on the Americana Music Association’s “Most Added” Radio chart in the first week of its release in 2017.
He also made a number of year-end lists for radio, including reaching #1 in WXPN’s Saturday Sleepy Hollow host Chuck Elliot’s “Favorite Albums of 2022,” and being listed in 2022 year-end lists by KVMR’s Good Stuff host Kim Rogers, WWSP’s Acoustic Revival host Jim Canales, WFPK’s Michael Young, and others. KPFA’s Tim Lynch also added Crosswind of Kansas to his ‘Favorite CDs of 2022,’ saying, “The instrumentation and production are superb, while his weather-worn voice embodies the heartbreak and hope in the finely crafted lyrics.”
While Scorzari has completed two coast-to-coast, solo-headline national tours to date, he has also opened for Billy Strings (The Riverwalk Café, Nashua, NH, 2017); Big Country (The Paramount Theater — a 1,500-cap venue in Huntington, NY, 2014); and Whiskey Meyers (at the former “The Shop” in New York City, 2016). Other performances of note include AmericanaFest (2016), Newport Folk Festival (2019), the “For Pete’s Sake” program curated by Chris Funk of The Decemberists, and more.
Another recent milestone is having Del McCoury cover “Treat Me Kind” from Bill’s 2019 Now I’m Free album. Del’s rendition is included on The Del McCoury Band’s album Songs of Love and Life (released June 2024).
Scorzari’s forthcoming double album, Sidereal Days (Day 1), will be independently released October 17, 2025, and Sidereal Days (Day 2) will be released in 2026.
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