"Like" us
IndepenDisc on Facebook

 Closely Watched Trains "SONG OF THE WEEK" More Frank Critelli
Home / Catalogue Radio IndepenDisc
About Us / What's NewDisc A Month / Cut-Out Bin
Tremens / Mailing List / Links / / Artist Submissions / Radio Archives

IndepenDisc Logo
"Select" Independent Music.
                                 since 1998.

The FCB ep
© 2010 Third Floor Chalet Songs

Secure online ordering provided by:
CCNow Logo
1-877-CCNOW-77
Now accepting PayPal
Checkout
View Shopping Cart

The Frank Critelli Band
The FCB ep

Total Time: 22:11
Cost: $4.98 + s/h*

Click to order
Accepting Credit Cards and PayPal

Read Our Review

STYLERock-n-Roll

HOME TOWNNew Haven/Meriden, CT

Visit Frank's WEB SITE & Facebook page.

Frank Critelli

1. Watch The Signs
2. Ahead or Behind Redux
3. Messiah
4. Whiskey Blues
5. The Questions Recurring
6. Hidden Track

Check out Frank's CDs:
A Rat's Dose
(LIMITED EDITION),
Waltzing Through Quicksand,
Before You Break
,
also - more CDs by: Frank Critelli
and Check out Frank's side
project: Brutally Frank

Issue #132                                    May '10                                        

Frank Critelli has been writing Rock-n-Roll friendly folk songs for years. In that time he has always turned a phrase, set a hook, and taken us along for musical jaunts with deep personal meanings. His lyrics consistently detail life’s unconscious conundrums and how each of us must deal with them on our own accord, but if done with love and joy even the most trying of times can turn out alright.

Set to singer/songwriter, acoustic, folk-friendly music, these songs drew us towards that of Woody Guthrie, early Bob Dylan, and James Taylor, but they always seemed to want to give even more, to explode upon us, to make us sit up and take notice more so than just any other folk song(s), to evolve into Rock-n-Roll songs. Frank’s songs were itching for him to plug in, much in the same way that Dylan’s songs needed in 1966. We could see it coming with his 2005 side project
Brutally Frank. Then with his 2006 release, Before You Break, Frank began to bring more instrumentation into the fold. 2008’s Waltzing Through Quicksand showed Frank’s affection for both his Folk underpinnings and his Rock-n-Roll sensibilities. Now crediting the band as the artist, The Frank Critelli Band has evolved enough to let loose Frank’s inner Rock-n-Roll Star.

The FCB ep
opens with Rich Suarez’s drums front and center, announcing that this is a Rock-n-Roll album. Don “The Don” Horton’s bass jumps in with a pulsing beat that allows Shandy Lawson’s electric guitar riffs to shred through Rolling Stones/Keith Richards territory, and we know we’re not on the Folk stage anymore… but, the circuitry has not been lost.

These 5 songs not only Rock-n-Roll through Frank’s poetic, lyrical, Folk leanings on life, love, vice and virtue, but also lay down the blues (guest musician Bob Orsi, on loan from
The Manchurians, tears up several songs with his classic harmonica playing), along with the many musical Rock-n-Roll flavors that can satisfy any true music fan.

Folk evolved into Rock-n-Roll.

Frank Critelli
evolved into The Frank Critelli Band.
When
The Frank Critelli Band smokes the Folk,
They are Rock-n-Roll.

The Frank Critelli Band- The FCB ep
is available now for: $4.98 + s/h*

Click to order   View Shopping Cart  /  Checkout
Accepting Credit Cards and PayPal

*Shipping & Handling charges:
USA - $3.00 for the first 2 CDs ordered,
                     Add $1.50 per each CD after.
Canada - $5.00 for the first CD ordered,
                          Add $2.00 per each CD after.
Everywhere else -$7.00 for the first CD ordered,
                                        Add $3.00 per each CD after.

Closely Watched Trains Go To Top More Frank Critelli

Home / Catalogue Radio IndepenDisc
About Us / What's NewDisc A Month / Cut-Out Bin
Tremens / Mailing List / Links / / Artist Submissions / Radio Archives

gmv. contact:
Copyright © 1998-2012 IndepenDisc LLC. All rights reserved.
Last Revised: May 10, 2012