Hometown Life Sully Erna

• 1 Hometown Life 04:41
• 2 Your Own Drum 03:02
• 3 Different Kind of Tears 04:37
• 4 Take All of Me 04:05
• 5 Don't Comfort Me 04:10
• 6 Turn It Up! 04:55
• 7 Blue Skies 04:47
• 8 Forever My Infinity 04:20
• 9 Father of Time 04:30
• 10 Falling to Black 03:44
• Total Runtime 42:51

Info zu Hometown Life

For almost 20 years Sully Erna has been the enigmatic, bullish, demon of a frontman presence for powerhouse rock behemoth Godsmack. By night, he moonlights as a singer / songwriter with a vulnerability seldom heard by a metal frontman. Metal purists may scoff at the lead singer taking a slight detour, but Erna has earned the right to do so, and has used his time wisely. Hometown Life has Erna sitting in the elder’s chair utilizing his lyrics, coupled with the music, as teaching tools, leaving little trails for others to gravitate towards.

Title track, and album opener “Hometown Life” brings a beautiful, melodic, and heavy piano that follows the song til the end. “Your Own Drum” offers a latin flavor and a memorable message of individuality. “Take All of Me” is a piano driven banger with touching orchestration and pop-hook sensibility. “Turn It Up” is a bluesy, instantly grabbing, semi-showtune that instills a dance groove. “Forever My Infinity” is a heartbreaking duet, “Falling to Black” follows suit, but with a melancholy turn… and so on.

Hometown Life is Erna’s second solo record after 2010’s Avalon. And while Avalon was a good effort, Hometown Life is that much better. The record is cohesive, heartfelt, and offers listeners a chance to hear another side of Erna outside of the clang of distorted, electric, instruments.

„Like light shining through the clouds after a storm, Sully Erna's solo sophomore outing Hometown Life is bright, comforting, and uplifting. While his 2010 solo debut Avalon was just a few steps away from Godsmack's more subdued material, Hometown Life is a full embrace of everything else Erna enjoys, including blues, country, and R&B. Hometown Life crackles with spirit, a somewhat jarring shift for anyone in search of a dose of the typical Godsmack spookiness. Erna sets aside that darkness and angst in favor of an intimate, personal experience. For Godsmack fans who have grown along with him, this will be a welcome and relaxing break after decades of head-cracking post-grunge ragers. Here, Erna allows himself to be vulnerable, which lends emotional heft to tracks like the soaring "Blue Skies" and mournful "Falling to Black." He contemplates mortality on the gypsy jam "Father of Time" and pays homage to his Lawrence, Massachusetts roots on the title track. A familiar (and familial) team has once again joined Erna in the studio: in addition to backing band Chris Lester, Tim Theriault, and Chris Decato, other players who helped with Avalon have also returned, including Irina Chirkova, who infuses the album with her cello swells, and Lisa Guyer, who provides backing vocals and contributes another highlight duet on "Forever My Infinity." New faces include drummer David Stefanelli and songwriter Zac Malloy (Daughtry, Skillet, Tim McGraw) who injects a little Nashville warmth to "Your Own Drum" and "Different Kind of Tears." One guest warrants special mention: Erna's father, Salvatore Sr., whose trumpet lends a cool bluesy vibe to the toe-tapping jam "Turn It Up!" All of these studio guests make Hometown Life feel like an extended jam session among loved ones. For a fiery frontman responsible for some of the heaviest songs in modern rock, it's a pleasing and nourishing departure, a journey of self-reflection and maturation.“ (Neil Z. Yeung, AMG)

Sully Erna, lead vocals, piano, acoustic guitar
Tim Theriault, guitar, backing vocals
Chris Decato, keyboards, backing vocals
Chris Lester, bass, acoustic guitar, backing vocals
David Stefanelli, drums
Irina Chirkova, cello
Lisa Guyer, vocals

Produced by Sully Erna

Salvatore Paul "Sully" Erna
born February 7, 1968 is the American vocalist and harmonica player for the American hard rock band Godsmack. He is also a guitarist, percussionist and pianist, performing these on albums and at live shows. He was ranked 47th in the Top 100 Heavy Metal Vocalists by Hit Parader.

Sully was born in Lawrence, Massachusetts. He began playing drums at the age of three. His father, Salvatore Erna, was a trumpet player and would rehearse in the basement where Sully would watch and fall asleep in an empty guitar case. His great-uncle was a famous composer in Sicily, where every year they honor his music and his pictures are hung in a museum. At the age of 11, he discovered that it was easier for him to listen to something and play it than read sheet music. He stopped taking lessons and practiced at home, rehearsing to records by Aerosmith, Led Zeppelin, Motorhead, Rush, and Alice in Chains.

Erna is a practicing Wiccan. His religion influences some of his songwriting to include the song "Spiral" from Godsmack's second album Awake and "Releasing the Demons" from their third album Faceless. He has stated publicly, however, that he "didn't want to be the poster boy for witchcraft", and does not necessarily capitalize on his religion for providing fame to the band. In fact, the issue of his religious beliefs never comes up unless he is asked in an interview. It is commonly believed that the Godsmack song "Voodoo" is about his heroin addiction, but, in fact is the advocate of a favorable motion towards the story of "The Serpent and the Rainbow."

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