"Boomer" Music for Bars and Cars, which moves you forward along the Rock Song crossroads of comtemporary American thought and sound. This eclectic album kick starts and then propels you onward to the end.

14 MP3 Songs in this album (55:39) !
Related styles: Rock: Adult Alternative Pop/Rock, Rock: Garage Rock, Mood: Upbeat

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Details:
âWhere does the light go when you close your eyes? Where does the moon go when the sun doesnât rise?â (Goodbye Song).
When I was a kid, we listened to albums. An album was a lot more than just songs. An album was songs connected by a concept, an A side and a B side, with cover art and liner notes. So I was pleased when asked to write these liner notes. Pleased, but also confused. Where exactly do you put liner notes if not on the back of an album cover? What is the purpose of liner notes in a digital world?
The process of creating music is transformational. So itâs fitting that these are songs about transformation. Rich said to me, âMy songs are all about the in-betweens.â Not about the being. About the becoming.
âHow do you get from Memphis to Heaven?â (Memphis to Heaven).
Talk about your in-betweens. The journey from ashes-to-ashes, from dust-to-dust. Life is the grandest in-between of them all. These are songs about life, and about the people who matter to us during our own brief moment in the in-between.

âWhy complicate the moment, Why complicate the time, Letâs be here now.â (This Crazy Thing).
Youâre going to work, earning a living, playing it safe and then, one day, playing it safe isnât enough any more. So you change. You allow yourself to become who you were always meant to be. In the liner notes for Aliceâs Restaurant, in 1967, Harold Leventhal wrote, âIt was just a little over a year ago that Arlo Guthrie bounced into my office and announced, âKid â Iâve just decided to quit working for you and have you work for me.ââ And thatâs how I imagine it for Rich, facing his own transformation. âKid,â he says to himself, âI donât work for you anymore,â Rich staring at himself in the bathroom mirror, âfrom now on you work for me.â These are songs about becoming. Becoming a lover. A husband. A father. A friend. Becoming a songwriter-singer. Being is easy. Becoming is hard, no matter what the pop songs say.

âDonât listen to the things people say to you. Youâll only regret that which you never do.â (Silence Says So).
I have said in other places that creativity is the capacity to look at the same thing everyone else is looking at (or, in this case, to listen to the same thing everyone else is listening to) and to see (or hear) something different.

âI wanna know whatâs different for you, whatâs different from meâ (You Are the Only One).
Rich Luca and I grew up listening to many of the same musical influences. We listened to the same music, but Rich was hearing something else. That something else has been fermenting for decades until Rich looked in the mirror and decided to do something with all that music.
And now, Rich has decided to let us hear the music that he hears. So take a listen and then send Rich a message. Tell him that his music needs to be in barrooms and in juke joints, in coffee houses and clubs, on your iPod, in your CD player, and especially on your turntable. Tell him to put the songs out on vinyl, an album, with an A side and a B side, with cover art, and, of course, with a proper place to read these liner notes. - Jeff Markowitz

âItâs the night that holds your soul. Itâs the night that takes control.â (Somewhere Burns a Fire)

"e-Motional gravity: Continually moving forward with momentum"
Legend had it that he shared the same birthday (9/23) as John Coltrane and Bruce Springsteen. Truth is, he was conceived on New Year's eve, as an apology, and was born "a Chameleon" 49 minutes after James Dean passed along, on 9/30/55.
He grew up in the south of Brooklyn, and became known as "Hurricane LaMont". A sax sideman who played the cities "family" clubs, as well as, Carnegie Hall, and MSG.
Subsequently saved, from certain death, by Saint WJBL (Mother of the Lost Boys of Never-Land). Together they raised a family. So for thirty years he toiled "regular" jobs as he ate, drank, digested, and absorbed the Crossroad Sounds of NYC, Philly, and the Jersey Shore. It's here where he had access to and heard every great Blues, Jazz, Folk, and Rock band spawned by American Music, and together with the smoldering sounds within his head, he played along.
With rebirth, redemption, independence, and life cycles of change, it comes as no surprise
that the music herein is described as: "An American Rock Buffet", "Songs of Sin-cerity", "Music For Young People With Old Souls", "Punk Folk", or just (baby) "Boomer Music for Bars and Cars" ... - Dick Dagger

All Songs:
Written and performed by Rich Luca
Produced & Arranged by Rich Luca and Tom Reock
Engineered by Tom Reock at Squirrel Ranch Studios, Hamilton, NJ

Contributing Squirrel Ranch Musicians:
Tom Reock - Keyboards, Acoustic Guitar, Bass, Drums/Percussion, & Backing Vocals
Mario DiBartolo - Electric Guitars
Joe Grillo - Saxophone
Sean Patrick - Background Vocals
Joe Ricci - Drums on "Mysterious Saint"

Contacts:
Rich Luca - RALSongs@yahoo.com
Tom Reock - SquirrelRanchStu@aol.com
Sean Patrick - www.myspace.com/seanpatrickbaldwin
Joe Grillo - http://seetheboomers.com/band/
Joe Ricci - www.kindredspiritrocks.com