By Bill Curreri on July 25, 2013
It was a brutally hot August afternoon… just one month before I would begin my undergraduate studies at the Washington Square campus of New York University. I no longer lived in The Village… although I found myself going back there time and time again to hang out with my old neighborhood friends. Three years earlier, Continue reading…
By Bill Curreri on June 21, 2013
My mom, Mary immigrated to the United States from southern Italy with my grandmother when she was only seven or eight years old. My grandfather had immigrated to the U.S. a few years earlier hoping to make enough money to send for them which he eventually did. Mary grew up in Greenwich Village during the Continue reading…
By Bill Curreri on April 26, 2013
The preparations had begun for the musicians to begin laying down their tracks in the studio for Know Yourself. We had all listened to my original demo of the song and as my bandmates grabbed their respective instruments and took their places in the studio, I heard John Putnam playing around with the original lead Continue reading…
By Bill Curreri on March 28, 2013
Feather In The Wind can best be described as the “step-child” of the album. Simply put when my producers, Roger Fife and Sammy Merendino and I were trying to decide which songs to include on Long Time Gone, Feather In The Wind almost did not make the final cut. We had narrowed the field down Continue reading…
By Bill Curreri on March 8, 2013
Every song I had ever written, or attempted to write, had been a solo effort. I would have thought that somewhere along the line I might have had the opportunity and privilege of co-authoring at least one tune with one of my life-long musician friends… Phil Bayle, Joe Dinorica or Dick Layton. But unfortunately, that Continue reading…
By Bill Curreri on February 26, 2013
As a young college student, I sometimes worried about my place in life. How was I going to earn a living and care for the needs of my family? What career path would I choose? Would I make the right choices in life? And would I be able to be successful enough in my chosen Continue reading…
By Bill Curreri on February 4, 2013
Most of the songs on Long Time Gone were written either retrospectively or forward-looking in their lyrical approach. This Time I’m Gonna Make It however, breaks that mold. For it is the only song on the album that was actually written about the here and now (verse #1) while at the same time looking both Continue reading…
By Bill Curreri on November 27, 2012
In the past, when asked about Brother… specifically with respect to both its inspiration and meaning… I have often shied away from responding. The story of the song’s origin… one of betrayal… is a truly personal one for me, my family and my loved ones spanning well over a decade and touching the lives of Continue reading…
By Bill Curreri on November 26, 2012
One of the firs questions my co-producer, Roger Fife asked me when planning our studio session for Long Time Gone was, “Do you want the album to be organic?” Faced with this seemingly unorthodox phrasing, I was taken aback for a brief moment asking myself incredulously, “What in God’s name is an organic album?” Responding Continue reading…
By Bill Curreri on November 19, 2012
One of the questions I often get from people after they have listened to one or more of my songs is, “What is that song about?” or “Who inspired you to write that piece?” These are questions that often tend to make me somewhat uncomfortable both from a personal and artistic point of view. For Continue reading…
By Bill Curreri on November 5, 2012
It is a wonder to me how we evolve over time as individuals. We often hear it said, “If I knew then what I know now!” In this regard, I’ve always liked Winston Churchill’s take on this subject. To paraphrase, he once said that while young people seem to think more with their hearts, older Continue reading…
