- Cheap Wine【 10 albums 87 lyrics 】
- Cheap Wine is an Italian rock band from Pesaro. The name is borrowed from the Green on Red same-titled song appeared on Gravity Talks album. They take inspiration from songwriters rock like (Neil Young, Bob Dylan) as well as Paisley Underground scene with veins of southern rock.
Biography
The band released its own debut in 1997, the EP Pictures (Toast Records).
Next year the band made a choice to remain independent about sounds and to maintain the lyrics in English and so they choose the self release with music distribution by Venus Dischi.
With the help of sound technician Alessandro Castriota they published the first album A better place in 1998, that was well received on Italian music magazines and fanzines.
The next albums Ruby Shade(2000), Crime Stories(2002) (concept album about crime which was selected among the best 15 Italian albums of the year by the notable music magazine Il Mucchio Selvaggio), Moving (2004) (concept about travel with the personal Bob Dylan's cover of 'One more cup of coffee') and Freak Show (2007) contributed to make the group a little legend in Italian musical underground.
In 2008 the drummer, Francesco Zanotti, left and was replaced later by Alan Giannini.
In the 2009 the band published the live DVD 'Just Like Bob Dylan's Blues' recorded at Brabante theatre in Urbania nel 2003. In summer they played some songs at the presentation of the new Bruce Springsteen's album Working on a Dream on Milan's Rolling Stone stage. In September a new disc: Spirits with 2 personal cover Townes Van Zandt's 'Pancho & Lefty' and Dylan's 'Man In The Long Black Coat', and 9 original tracks. 'La buveuse' is dedicated to the same picture of painter Toulouse-Lautrec. The album received very good reviews on the specialized magazines such as Buscadero whose readers elected the disc best Italian album of the year. as well as the roots-rock oriented webzine Rootshighway The national radio RAI-Radio1 made a special about Cheap Wine on Saturday night.
In October 2010 the band released the first live album 'Stay Alive!', 2 discs with 21 songs of which two covers, Bruce Springsteen's 'Youngstown' and 'Rockin' in the Free World' (Neil Young), recorded during three different concerts.
In 2011 Alessio Raffaelli (keyboards), former member of Miami & the Groovers (rock 'n' roll band from Rimini) joined the band. In October 2012 the band released its ninth work, Based on Lies.
Discography
Albums
1997 - Pictures (EP)
1998 - A better place
2000 - Ruby Shade
2002 - Crime Stories
2004 - Moving
2007 - Freak Show
2009 - Spirits
2010 - Stay Alive! (2 CD)
2012 - Based on Lies
Compilation
2008 - Riot on sunset vol.14 - Sorted by ＞ Sorted by album (Time) Sorted by song name (Characters) Sorted by other
- Album name Release Date Song
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Based On Lies
2012
1.Breakaway (Provided)
2.Waiting On the Door (Provided)
3.Lovers' Grave (Provided)
4.Give Me Tom Waits (Provided)
5.The Big Blow (Provided)
6.Based On Lies (Provided)7.On the Way Back Home (Provided)
8.Lost Inside (Provided)
9.The Vampire (Provided)
10.To Face a New Day (Provided)
11.The Stone (Provided) -
Stay Alive!
2010
1.Just Like Animals (Provided)
2.The Sea Is Down (Provided)
3.Circus of Fools (Provided)
4.A Pig On A Lead (Provided)
5.Murderer Song (Provided)
6.Among the Stones (Provided)
7.Youngstown (Provided)
8.Shakin' the Cage (Provided)9.Reckless (Provided)
10.Snakes (Provided)
11.Loom and Vanish (Provided)
12.Leave Me A Drain (Provided)
13.Move Along (Provided)
14.City Lights (Provided)
15.Rockin' In the Free World (Provided) -
Spirits
2009
1.Alice (Provided)
2.La Buveuse (Provided)
3.Man In The Long Black Coat (Provided)4.Dried Leaves (Provided)
5.Lay Down (Provided)
6.Pancho & Lefty (Provided) -
Freak Show
2007
1.Dance Over Troubles (Provided)
2.Exploding Underground (Provided)
3.Time For Action (Provided)
4.Nothing Left to Say (Provided)
5.Naked Kings (Provided)6.Kenny Bring Me Down (Provided)
7.Freak Show (Provided)
8.Jugglers and Suckers (Provided)
9.Evil Ghost (Provided) -
Moving
2004
1.I can fly away (Provided)
2.The wheels are on fire (Provided)
3.Haze all down the line (Provided)4.I got gasoline (Provided)
5.One more cup of coffee (Provided)
6.Fade out (Provided) -
Crime stories
2002
1.Dream Seller (Provided)
2.Coming Breakdown (Provided)
3.Scatterbrain (Provided)
4.Behind the Bars (Provided)
5.Temptation (Provided)6.Looking For a Crime (Provided)
7.Waitin' For a Fight (Provided)
8.I Like Your Smell (Provided)
9.Castaway (Provided)
10.Tryin' to Lend a Hand (Provided) -
Ruby shade
2000
1.Angel (Provided)
2.Bad Guy (Provided)
3.Devil's On My Side (Provided)
4.Ruby Shade (Provided)
5.Dead City (Provided)
6.Crazy Hurricane (Provided)7.A Blaze in the Dark (Provided)
8.Easy Joe (Provided)
9.Break It Down (Provided)
10.So Far Away (Provided)
11.Set Up a Rock'n'roll Band (Provided)
12.Mary (Provided) -
A Better Place
1998
1.Walkin' Away (Provided)
2.Dark Angels (Provided)
3.Dangerous Game (Provided)
4.A Better Place (Provided)
5.The Waster (Provided)6.Playing With a Butterfly (Provided)
7.Broken Dream (Provided)
8.Strange Girl (Provided)
9.Cheap Wine (Provided)
10.I Am Everything You Are (Provided) -
Pictures
1997
1.Pictures (Provided)
2.Oh no! (Provided)
3.Invisible (Provided)4.Rock this town (Provided)
5.Trifle (Provided) -
Beggar Town
1.Fog On the Highway
2.Muddy Hopes3.The Fairy Has Your Wings
【Correction of errors in the album information】