Long Island, NY — New York-based singer-songwriter, recording artist, and performer Bill Scorzari returns with his 5th and 6th albums, Sidereal Days (Day 1) & (Day 2). The first release from this two-album set (October 17, 2025) is Sidereal Days (Day 1). Sidereal Days (Day 2) will be released separately on September 25th, 2026. 

“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.” wrote Pat Moran in Acoustic Guitar.

Scorzari places an emphasis on lyrics and musical nuance, a “writer’s writer,” as some would say. “To be sure, one needs solitude to appreciate his literate craft, a blend of prose and poetry put to music, a Walt Whitman of sorts for our times,” wrote Jim Hynes in Glide Magazine.

He’s been compared, in parts, with Sam Baker, Bruce Springsteen, Bob Dylan, Leonard Cohen, Townes Van Zandt, and more. What distinguishes Scorzari as he examines the human condition is his distinctive voice, which can be subtle and striking at the same time.

The ten tracks on Sidereal Days (Day 1) are wide-ranging with 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. Sensitive to the level of clarity he seeks for himself, his arrangements are strong and poignant. 

The band for Sidereal Days (Day 1) is Bill Scorzari on lead and harmony vocals, acoustic, classical, baritone, tenor 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 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 on upright acoustic, electric, and hollow body electric bass; and Neilson Hubbard on drums and percussion. 

Bill self-recorded his instrumentation and vocals for both albums at his studio, First Thunder Recording, on Long Island, New York. 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 where engineer Dylan Alldredge continued the recordings, 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. 

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 4 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 orbiting around the Sun while rotating on its axis. Bill says: "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 is otherwise moving. 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, keeping their spirit true to what it was when I first wrote them."

Bill Scorzari’s Music-Career-Highlights and History: 

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, Fats Kaplin, Erin Rae, Will Kimbrough, Brent Burke,  Kyle Tuttle, Matt Menefee, Michael Rinne, Danny Mitchell, Danny Roaman and more.

His music has been premiered by Billboard (“delicately nuanced and detailed arrangements”), The Bluegrass Situation, Folk Alley, Glide, Americana Highways (“deeply personal and affecting”), and others, and has received critical acclaim from No Depression, Americana UK, and many more as well. 

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 Tom Hull, 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- .” In November of 2025 Hull ranked Sidereal Days (Day 1) at #11 on his list of the 85 "Best Non-Jazz Albums for 2025." 

Robert Christgau, a.k.a "The Dean of American Rock Critics," – gave Bill Scorzari's 2022 album, The Crosswinds of Kansas, an “A-” rating, and later added it to his ranked list of “The best 84 albums of 2023 (or so)” at #40. He later gave Bill's 2025 release, Sidereal Days (Day 1) an “A” rating in his “And It Don't Stop - Consumer Guide: October 2025" and included the album at #43 in his May 07, 2026, "And It Don't Stop / Dean's List: 2025 - The 61 best albums of last year (or so). The album also appears at #11 on Tom Hull's November 17, 2025 list of the 85 “Best Non-Jazz Albums for 2025” 

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. The 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. On November 19, 2025 Sidereal Days (Day 1) moved up  from #31 to #26 on the Alt. Country Specialty Chart.

Bill 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’s host Jim Canales, WFPK’s Michael Young, and others. KPFA’s Tim Lynch also added Crosswinds 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 Cafe’, Nashua NH, 2017); Big Country (The Paramount Theater  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), in 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).

Sidereal Days (Day 1) is now available in CD, Digital and Streaming formats. Look for Sidereal Days (Day 2) on September 25, 2026.

Please visit www.billscorzari.com, facebook.com/billscorzari and instagram.com/billscorzari for further updates and more about Bill Scorzari

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