Brand new ! 2 Songs About Rome. Stan and Pietra each write and release a song about the "eternal city". Inspired by their 2011 summer tour of Italy. Ciao ! The songs ? Stan gets road rage with Eddie Cochran & Dick Dale. Pietra conjours up ancient ghosts from the catacombs with Django & a mad Gypsie band. - out now everywhere ! From A440 Records and Media. Credits : Stan Ridgway: guitar, vocals / Pietra Wexstun: keyboards, electronics, vocals / Bruce Zelesnik: drums, percussion bg vocals / Giorgio Baldi: strange traffic guitars / Enrico Deiro: accordion / Lazlo Vickers: violin. Produced by Ridgway/ Zelesnik / Wexstun.tan Ridgway: guitar, vocals / Pietra Wexstun: keyboards, electronics, vocals / Bruce Zelesnik: drums, percussion bg vocals / Giorgio Baldi: strange traffic guitars / Enrico Deiro: accordion / Lazlo Vickers: violin. Produced by Ridgway/ Zelesnik / Wexstun. Mastered by Mulhollandsound. More album notes below ... 1. "TRAFFIC IN ROME" - Stan Ridgway Drivin' in Rome in your automobile Down the Appian Way hear the tires squeal Made a U turn at the arboretum 90 miles an hour past the colleseum Big group of tourists all the way from Japan snapping' their cameras at the statue man And its ruff - take out a loan Ya gotta drive real fast and hard Tryin' to keep up with the traffic in Rome Headline in the paper talkin' Berloskoni Story in the press about his big baloney Made a hairpin turn St Peter's Square Nuns swoonin' over John Paul's hair Skid to a stop someone jump inside said he was a ghost from the other side Chorus Hit Pinnocio on the Via Del Pastini Ridin' on his bike eaten' salaminini Chorus 2. "COBBLED STREETS OF ROME " - Pietra Wexstun I sit in a bar on a side street A stranger smiles at me Asks me if I come from The Land of Liberty His hair is white His teeth are bright He sends me a long-stemmed rose, Bottle of wine and would it be fine If he sketched as the candle glowed He tells me he’s an actor But I wouldn’t know his name Years ago when the work got slow He bowed out of the game He’d hopped an ocean liner And headed cross the sea Left his wife for the sweet free life On the streets of Italy Got a bit part in Othello And dubbed a film or two, Played guitars, painted stolen cars, Even worked in something blue And the cats crawl from ruins And the jasmine sprouts through stone And tomorrow springs eternal In the cobbled streets of Rome And then the actor tells me The man who did him in He’d loved him like a brother He’d loved him like a twin He died today on a sailboat And he just had to cry His friends had seen the bottles Of whiskey, scotch and rye And though he’d made his bargain He never could cash in With each face that came to haunt him He’d take a swig of gin Gypsy girl sleeps in a doorway Tonight this is her home Melodies drift from the subway And the ghosts of the catacombs Float along the Via Sacra Past the heavy doors and domes Where the faithful sing their praises And the jewels surround their bones And the cats crawl from ruins And the jasmine sprouts through stone And tomorrow springs eternal In the cobbled streets of Rome more info : http://www.stantridgwsy.com * * * *