The cast: Stiv Cantarelli – vocals, guitars Antonio Perugini – drums, percussions, backing vocals Fabrizio Gramellini – bass Honorable Stranger: Petrushka Morsink – space guitar, ethereal vocals, harmonica from hell
The back story: In 1999 Stiv Cantarelli and his band Satellite Inn signed their first record deal with MoodFood Records of Cary, North Carolina. Funnily enough, they’d been asked to replaced Ryan Adams’ Whiskeytown who were moving to Outpost Records and already bound for glory. After months of hard Stateside graft, MoodFood got the roots rock classic Cold Morning Songs out of the deal; Stiv got enough on-the-road tales to rival Ian Hunter and Henry Rollins. He also gained firm friends in Portland, Oregon band Richmond Fontaine, who wound up backing him on his 2011 solo album Innerstate (released on RF’s El Cortez label), mixing the raw edges of punk rock with border stories that could have come from . . . → Read More: Stiv Cantarelli & The Silent Strangers – Black Music / White Music
