Bill Scorzari

• The Crosswinds of Kansas [self-released, 2022] A−
• Sidereal Days (Day 1) [self-released, 2025] A

Consumer Guide Reviews:

The Crosswinds of Kansas [self-released, 2022]
The third album by a retired NYC-based attorney whose gray beard reaches halfway down his torso is packaged as a 70-minute double-fold CD complete with a 16-page lyric booklet. So I strongly suggest you follow along while you listen, which I even more strongly suggest. As a singer he's most of the way to a talker, which is not to suggest that his Americana-in-the-rough melodies don't deliver his songs or that his musicians don't shore and liven them up. Sadly but also rather brilliantly, most describe or ponder failed relationships, not one of which presents itself as either casual or ill-fated on the face of it. They just don't work out, that's all. "With every situation that confronts me to my core, there comes a realization that I seem to have had before." "Now I'm just sittin' here in my car, thinkin' about how you and I have changed, and how there's no guarantee our destiny could ever be the same." "You said you hoped I wouldn't be lonely now that you're leaving me alone." "And then you said to me 'It's cause you never tried.' You never tried. You never tried. You never tried. You never . . . tried." A−

Sidereal Days (Day 1) [self-released, 2025]
Love fan that I am—the concept or feeling, I mean, both obviously much bigger deals than the band—I find this attorney-turned-singer-songwriter's latest album no less poignant for his tendency to croak some when he sings. On the contrary, it's a quirk that intensifies the amorous vulnerability he can't stop emoting or writing about. "She borrowed my heart and brought it back broken, and this day's no fair." "And I can see her in his arms and my heart stops, beaten, struck, and crashes to the ground." "Walking hand-in-hand with you my love. Can't seem to grasp what I was thinking of. I said I didn't want to say goodbye. But you were etching it in stone in my mind." "Desire runs in a race with Time, sayin' 'Who's the bigger fool between you and I. Or did we tie?'" A