ROCCO DELUCA - DRUGS AND HYMNS (LP)

Rocco DeLuca Drugs 'N Hymns on LP

Drugs 'n Hymns is the newest release from LA-based artist Rocco Deluca. The album finds the blues-steeped musician forging a solo path armed with his National guitar, distinctively emotive voice and 10 reflective, vivid song-stories. The hypnotically spare compositions conjure a world of characters seeking a certain solace and salvation while continually mired in the disturbed darkness.

The album was “anti-produced” by Rocco DeLuca and features guests such as the Echo Park Jubilee Tambo Flower Unsung Heroes Choir. Drugs 'N Hymns is a fascinating recording in its quiet intensity, conveying a wide swathe of emotions from quietude mixed with underlying dread to hopeful exhilaration.

Rocco DeLuca was born in Southern California surrounded by a vibrant arts community that inspired him to follow his muses at an early age.  By seven he was learning to play listening to Billy Holiday, Nina Simone and the Delta Blues heroes of the 1920’s.  He soon crossed paths and performed with the likes of John Lee Hooker, Johnny Cash and June Carter and Daniel Lanois, an amazing musical association key in the evolution of DeLuca’s unique sound whether fronting a band or playing solo.

Says Daniel Lanois: “I fully believe in DeLuca. I think that he’s got the power to be a contemporary troubadour, as I see it, and I hope I can be his friend for a long time, whether I am operating in the same limelight, ahead of him, behind him, in his shadow, whatever it takes, I’ll be there. The one thing that I love about Rocco DeLuca is he is driven by his own heart."

Rocco DeLuca Drugs 'N Hymns Track Listing:

1.  Lucky
2.  My My
3.  Sibylle
4.  Amen
5.  Pray On
6.  Windows
7.  They Stride Like Gods
8.  Snake Oil Salesman
9.  Gorky
10. Drugs ‘n Hymns