BILLSCORZARI

SHORT BIOGRAPHY FOR 2026

Bill Scorzari is a multi-instrumentalist, singer-songwriter, recording artist, and performer based in New York. He has independently released five studio albums to date, including Just the Same (2014), Through These Waves (2017), Now I’m Free (2019), The Crosswinds of Kansas (2022) and Sidereal Days (Day 1) (2025). Sidereal Days (Day 1) was released on October 17th, 2025 and is the first album from the two-album set which also includes Sidereal Days (Day 2). The (Day 2) album will be released and made available for reviews in 2026. 

Bill’s discography includes guest performances by Chris Scruggs, Kim Richey, Joachim Cooder, Laur Joamets, Marie Lewey and 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, The Bluegrass Situation, Folk Alley, Americana Highways, and others and has received critical acclaim from No Depression, Acoustic Guitar, Robert Christgau, Tom Hull, Americana UK, Americana NL and many more as well. His albums have been included on “year-end-best-of” lists by Folk Alley, Making A Scene, Americana Highways, Americana UK and more. In 2024, Robert Christgau ranked Bill’s 2022 release, The Crosswinds of Kansas, at #40 on his “The Best 84 Albums of 2023 (or so)” list. Subsequently, on October 8, 2025, Christgau gave Bill's Sidereal Days (Day 1) album an “A” rating in his "And It Don't Stop" Consumer Guide: October 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. His fourth release, The Crosswinds of Kansas placed at #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 as well, 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 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.” Sidereal Days (Day 1) likewise, was included on many year-end best-of-2025 lists.

While he 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 —a 1500-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), in the “For Pete’s Sake” program curated by Chris Funk of The Decemberists, and more.

Another recent milestone is having Del McCoury record a cover of “Treat Me Kind” from Bill’s 2019 Now I’m Free album. You can hear Del’s rendition on The Del McCoury Band’s album, Songs of Love and Life (released June 2024).

Bill began recording the Sidereal Days (Day 1) and (Day 2) albums at his New York studio, First Thunder Recording, on July 2, 2022, and he continued recording there for the following nearly two years, through June of 2024. In August of 2024, he brought those recordings (20 original songs), to Skinny Elephant Recording in Nashville, where engineer Dylan Alldredge and a cast of 12 additional musicians completed the tracks with Bill and Neilson Hubbard co-producing. Later that year, Bill self-recorded a final track for the new release, back at First Thunder in New York. Engineer Nic Coolidge mixed the 21 tracks at Dead Pop Studios in Providence, RI, in early 2025, and engineer Hallie Melton completed the mastering in April of 2025, in Nashville, TN. The 21 songs filled two albums. The first album, Sidereal Days (Day 1), includes 10 of those tracks and was released on October 17, 2025. 

Robert Christgau has the Sidereal Days (Day 1) 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) and Tom Hull placed the album at #11 on his November 17, 2025 list of the 85 “Best Non-Jazz Albums for 2025” The album also was included in the Alt. Country Specialty Chart. and moved up from #31 to #26 on 11/19/25 edition.

The remaining 11 of the 21 tracks make up the second album, Sidereal Days (Day 2), which will be  released on September 25, 2026

Accompanying the release of the two new albums are official music videos filmed in Nashville and Kentucky, several in-studio performance videos and multiple “behind the scenes" documentary videos as well, filmed during the Nashville recording sessions. Watch for more from the Sidereal Days duology in 2026 and keep an ear out for Bill's seventh, presently untitled album, which he started recording in early 2026.

You can find more information about Bill Scorzari’s music on his website at www.billscorzari.com

For links to all music and video releases for 2025 and 2026 please visit www.billscorzari.com/now     

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