SCOTT TURCHIN: River Can Cry

Scott Turchin

River Can Cry

© 2005 Scott Turchin / Songmon Music (783707126807)

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Southern boy goes Rasta in Scott Turchin's mix of strongly felt American Roots Rock and positive, authentic Roots Reggae.

tracks

1 Vagabond
2 Always Love
3 What More
4 Cornucopia
5 Everytin' Irie
6 I Remember
7 Baby Don't Mind
8 All in My Mind
9 Betsy
10 Pineapple Head
11 White Man
12 Jah Creation
13 Ayleen
14 River Can Cry

notes

Hey Y'all and Greetings IandI!
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SCOTT TURCHIN began this life in a small Southern town, wandered throughout the rural South and hopped a banana boat for Jamaica, where life was one great song after another.

All day, all night, Marianne.

Or so it would seem.

Born to hardworking, intense New York City parents who brought him to California in the crazy 60s, Scott grew up on a steady diet of folk, rock and world music. Dreaming of being a great rock singer like Lou Gramm or David Bowie, SCOTT played James Taylor, Cat Stevens, Neil Young and Leonard Cohen songs like they were his own in many duos and bands, and later inspired by Sting, Seal and Don Henley, he started to write. Later, he was called by the Reggae music to write from and understand the Rasta perspective.

Often compared to a wide range of artists, including Dave Matthews, John Hiatt, Johnny Clegg, Van Morrison, Steve Earle, Bob Marley, Peter Tosh, Tom Petty and Ben Harper, his SCOTT TURCHIN BAND plays throughout the Los Angeles area.

SCOTT's music has won recognition from local and national songwriter organizations, and earned "Editor's Choice" in both Roots Rock and Reggae from distributor CDBABY for his first album, SCOTT TURCHIN, and RIVER CAN CRY has been racking up the awards on peer review site GarageBand.com!

Former Director of the Westside Song Circle, Scott is also an actor on stage, in voiceovers, TV and in film.


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Check out my main website www.songmon.com and ALL my other websites to hear MORE music - www.myspace.com/scottturchin and www.garageband.com, where I've had Track of the Day, Best Vocalist and more many times. Respect.


Please come visit me at WWW.SONGMON.COM!

reviews

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  • Reggae tunes add international flavor to a . . varied rock sound
    author: Chuck Foster

    "SCOTT TURCHIN covers his bases on RiVER CAN CRY (Songmon) offering a post-Eagles (or is it post-Bob Seger) rock set interspersed with a half-dozen straight up reggae tunes. Since his brand of rock is the same brand I grew up playing (I pretty much already know my parts if I was going to add some percussion to these tracks), it all goes down pretty smooth as far as I'm concered. The reggae tunes . . incorporate dub, female backing vocals and 818 area code patois to good effect and help add an international flavor to an already varied rock sound." Radio legend and Reggae historian/superfan CHUCK FOSTER in the new edition of THE BEAT magazine (Vol.24,No.5 2005)

  • Reggae and American folk? Played by a white boy?
    author: Scott H. Platt

    FROM EARCANDY MAG by Scott H. Platt Reggae and American folk? Played by a white boy? I know it might sound very strange, but Scott Turchin somehow makes it work . . . “White Man” touches on brilliance.

  • A Fun, Upbeat Collection!
    author: Norman Famous

    Mr. Turchin is equally adept at writing and performing convincing CCR/Bob Seger-ish rockers and authentic-sounding reggae. He intersperses the two styles on his River Can Cry, making for pleasant, if slightly schizophrenic, listening. Perhaps two separate cds would have been better. Perhaps not. In any case, this is a fun, upbeat collection that I actually listened to more than once - and that's sayin' something. Good one, Scott. Norman Famous Reviews

  • An emotional yet powerful artist . . touched my heart immediately
    author: gilli moon

    One sultry evening in Los Angeles I was sitting around deep in my thoughts, when an email popped into my inbox from Scott Turchin, sending me an mp3. Usually when people just send me mp3s attached to emails I go into shock and hope my email server isn't jammed from the large file, usually rant and rave at the sender and delete the email in defiance. But I've always loved Scott's music and I was very, very curious. I clicked on the attachment and was COMPLETELY MOVED beyond to another world. Scott had touched my heart immediately. This song grabs you straight away with his husky voice, such sensitive vocal, sooooo rare to find in a male singing. I was crying. This song brought out every relationship I had ever experienced, the loves the losses. As the tears were rolling down my face, I was continually swept into his story which became mine. How can a simple mp3 do that to me?? I will remember that moment forever. The song was.. "What More" and I thought I had discovered the next number 1 hit. Truly. Weeks later Scott's album was finished and I received it with eagerness. "What More", my favorite song of the year, sits at Track 3 on his new album "River Can Cry", and boy... does he know how to make a girl cry. That's a good thing. Scott Turchin is an emotional yet powerful artist. What else could he offer me that could match "What More"? Well I have an album in my hands that is a terrific opus. It is a smorgasbord of grooves, harmonies, cool hooks and addictive melodies. I immediately popped it on at a party and everyone was dancing. Beyond my favorite ballad, the rest of the album has a great Jamaican groove, and south of the border licks that is so unusual for a white boy, and yet so perfect. I love "Vagabond" and the Bob Marley-esque "Cornucopia" and "Jah Creation". Scott moves through different emotions, from soft and sweet, to rocking happy with "Baby Don't Mind", a catchy chorus that sticks in my head, to a hurting and dark "All In My Mind". With "Betsy" he changes his voice and plays the part well. "Pineapple Head" he uses satire. Scott Turchin is a vocal and music chameleon. Scott is a deep songwriter, and knows writing structure well. He has used some interesting production ideas with his instrumentation including strings, cello, fiddles,B3s and of course Scott's guitars. I highly recommend getting yourself a copy of "River Can Cry" and be taken on a journey, through a tapestry of music, through the islands, and into.... his heart. - Gilli Moon, Songsalive! http://www.songsalive.org

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