DEAN ZUCCHERO
Veteran bassist, composer, & producer
Hailing originally from the streets of East Village, New York City, Zucchero cut his teeth in the bustling, industry-driven Manhattan music scene where songwriting and studio recording chops have long since been revered and rewarded. Cultivating these traits in the city’s local dive-bar and cabaret music incubators such as CBGBs, The Bitter End, Dan Lynch Blues Bar, The Bottom Line and Manny’s Carwash, with rock act Major Domo as well as local blues heroes Michael Powers, Popa Chubby, Sweet Georgia Brown and Frankie Paris, to name a few, Zucchero’s consequent appreciation for melody, lyrical craftsmanship, arrangement, improv and an overall connection with urban multiculturalism finds deep prominence in his music.
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NEW ALBUM FROM PUGNACIOUS RECORDS ARTIST DEAN ZUCCHERO!
SONG FOR THE SINNERS
“Shine” strives to bridge the stylistic gaps between early 70s blues, rock and country, blending the sounds of acts like The Allman Brothers, Linda Ronstadt, The Band and Little Feat.
Featuring Albert Castiglia on the song, the goal was achieved with his powerful vocal tone and anthemic blues-rocking guitar aesthetic.
Lyrically, it’s a classic love affair between a woman and a man—but with a twist. Stereotypical roles of “Love” are reversed, as the woman is merely looking for a little side action, but her quixotic lover is searching for a deeper spiritual meaning.
Mutual emotional ground is briefly met, but ultimately here commonality is absent, even insignificant in this new age of sexual revolution, and old habits die hard.
Less than two years following his Billboard #1 Blues album debut, Electric Church for the Spiritually Misguided (2023), New Orleans bassist, songwriter and producer Dean Zucchero is at it again with a collection of powerful and poignant original music. Song for the Sinners boasts 12 compelling tracks all written, arranged and produced by Zucchero himself.
This blues-inspired euphony is elevated by a luminary cast of guest vocalists and instrumentalists including the legendary Bobby Rush, Mike Zito, Victor Wainwright, Albert Castiglia, John Németh, Jimmy Vivino, Little Freddie King, John Boutté, Glen David Andrews, Sean Riley and more.
On the musical front, the record delivers enticing grooves and melodies from various genres of the 60s and 70s—Zucchero’s symphonic sanctuary. The lyrics of the songs traverse a varied poetic landscape, with destinations including the slide out of co-habitation, patricidal nightmares, Saturday night hookups, bereavement, centerfold romance, Taoist revelations, horny alcoholic wives, suicide and more.
Song for the Sinners—to be released for lovers, and their sins, on February 21, 2025 on Pugnacious Records. Do yourself a favor and snatch a copy of this seductive collection.
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DEAN ZUCCHERO
ELECTRIC CHURCH FOR THE SPIRITUALLY MISGUIDED
#1 selling Blues album in the NATION on the Billboard music chart!
“It's hard to find a weakness in this album… STAR-STUDDED” - Blues Blast Magazine
FEATURING JOHNNY SANSONE, SUNPIE BARNES, JOHNNY RAWLS, JASON RICCI, PAPA MALI,
JOHNNY BURGIN, GHALIA VOLT, JONATHoN BOOGIE LONG, DALE SPALDING, & More!
FEATURING THE HIT SINGLE “AMERICAN DREAM”
The rise of materialism and death of meritocracy forces our 21st century romantic to daydream of a collective time when love was affordable and attainable, and not the product of a modern-day auction block. In the end “the guiding light finds its way” and Love prevails. Yet, is it real or just an American Dream?
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