Simone Felice : Live From A Lonely Place

By diverse | Published: 27/07/2010

This August will mark the limited release of Simone Felice – Live From A Lonely Place. Recorded at home (in the barn) just a few weeks after his heart surgery, this retrospective collection includes songs from the earliest Felice Brother days, Duke & King favorites, and the traditional Celtic waltz ‘Wild Mountain Thyme’ arranged by Simone. Naked as the day you were born, these stark recordings cut to the bone, revealing the essential brilliance of the songwriting, the poetry, like a ghost in the attic, like a wind at the door.

For those of you that like a back story, Simone was rushed into hospital a couple of months ago, a post appeared on his website saying…

‘We must tell you all, with a heaviness we cannot convey of the news that our dearest brother Simone Felice was rushed late last night to Albany Medical Center. Simone has been scheduled for emergency open-heart surgery as a result of Aortic Stenosis.’

Obviously this was shocking news to his band, to his fans and to me and Paul. Luckily he pulled through and recorded this album during his recovery. It is Simone at his raw and emotional best.

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