It’s a pleasure to feature the latest single from gravel-voiced songwriter Bill Scorzari, who has his latest album, Sidereal Days (Day 2), ready to release on September 25th. Some ways off, but on today’s song, we find Bill Scorzari in a more upbeat and tranquil mood, with Open Door being a folky love song featuring traditional acoustic instruments and a vocal duet with Megan McCormick. Others on this track include Danny Mitchell (Piano and Hammond B3 Organ), Chelsea McGough (Cello), Joshua Britt (Mandolin), Brad Talley (Dobro), Michael Rinne (Upright Acoustic Bass), and album co-producer Neilson Hubbard (Drums and Percussion).
Speaking of the song, Bill Scorzari told Americana UK that: “Some of the lyrics for Open Door came to me in the warming temperatures of the late winter/early springtime while I was traveling on a backroad near my home on Long Island, New York. I looked to the side and saw a small stream of water flowing from the snow that was melting there on the ground in the early morning sunshine, and I thought, ‘Your love, it’s like an open, it’s like an open, an open door. It’s tender, tender as sunshine, sun in the springtime melting snow.’ It’s such an exciting time of the year when everything starts waking up from the cold to greet the brighter, longer, and warmer spring days and their hints of the promises that summer will bring just a little further ahead. The acoustic folk and roots instruments on this track perfectly captured the essence of the emerging exuberance I had felt in that moment.”
