Cheap Wine is an Italian rock band from Pesaro. The name is borrowed from the Green on Red

Green on Red

Green on Red was an American rock band, formed in the Tucson, Arizona punk scene, but based for most of its career in Los Angeles, California, where it was loosely associated with the Paisley Underground...

 same-titled song appeared on Gravity Talks

Gravity Talks

-Track listing:#"Gravity Talks"#"Old Chief"#"5 Easy Pieces"#"Deliverance"#"Over My Head"#"Snake Bit"#"Alice"#"Blue Parade"#"That's What You're Here For"#"Brave Generation"#"Abigail's Ghost"#"Cheap Wine"#"Narcolepsy"-Personnel:...

 album. They take inspiration from songwriters rock like (Neil Young

Neil Young

Neil Percival Young, OC, OM is a Canadian singer-songwriter who is widely regarded as one of the most influential musicians of his generation...

, Bob Dylan

Bob Dylan

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) as well as Paisley Underground

Paisley Underground

Paisley Underground is an early genre of alternative rock, based primarily in Los Angeles, California, which was at its most popular in the mid-1980s.- History :...

 scene with veins of southern rock.

Biography

The band published its own debut in 1997, the EP Pictures ((Toast)).

Next year the band made a choice to remain independent about sounds and to maintain the lyrics in English and so they choose the self-production.

With the help of sound technician Alessandro Castriota they published the first album A better place in 1998, that was well received on Italian music magazines and fanzines.

The next albums Ruby Shade(2000), Crime Stories(2002) (concept album about crime which was selected among the best 15 Italian albums of the year by the notable music magazine Il Mucchio Selvaggio), Moving (2004) (concept about travel with the personal Bob Dylan

Bob Dylan

Bob Dylan is an American singer-songwriter, musician, poet, film director and painter. He has been a major and profoundly influential figure in popular music and culture for five decades. Much of his most celebrated work dates from the 1960s when he was an informal chronicler and a seemingly...

's cover of "One more cup of coffee") and Freak Show (2007) made the group a little legend in Italian musical underground.
In 2008 the drummer, Francesco Zanotti, left and was replaced later by Alan Giannini.

In the 2009 the band published the live DVD "Just Like Bob Dylan's Blues" recorded at Brabante theatre in Urbania

Urbania

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 nel 2003. In summer they played some songs at the presentation of the new Bruce Springsteen

Bruce Springsteen

Bruce Frederick Joseph Springsteen , nicknamed "The Boss," is an American singer-songwriter who records and tours with the E Street Band...

's album Working on a Dream

Working on a Dream

Working on a Dream is the 16th studio album by Bruce Springsteen, released on January 27, 2009 through Columbia Records. It has sold more than 3 million copies worldwide, with over 585,000 in the United States as of September 2010.-History:...

on Milan's Rolling Stone stage.
In September a new disc: Spirits with 2 personal cover Townes Van Zandt

Townes Van Zandt

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's "Pancho & Lefty" and Dylan

Bob Dylan

Bob Dylan is an American singer-songwriter, musician, poet, film director and painter. He has been a major and profoundly influential figure in popular music and culture for five decades. Much of his most celebrated work dates from the 1960s when he was an informal chronicler and a seemingly...

's "Man In The Long Black Coat", and 9 original tracks. "La buveuse" is dedicated to the same picture of painter Toulouse Lautrec. The album received very good reviews on the specialized magazines such as the "Buscadero" that elected the disc best Italian album of the year. as well as the roots-rock oriented webzine Rootshighway The national radio RAI

RAI

RAI — Radiotelevisione italiana S.p.A. known until 1954 as Radio Audizioni Italiane, is the Italian state owned public service broadcaster controlled by the Ministry of Economic Development. Rai is the biggest television company in Italy...

-Radio1 made a special about Cheap Wine on Saturday night.

In October 2010 the band released the first live album "Stay Alive!", 2 discs with 21 songs of which two covers.

Albums

• 1997 - Pictures (EP)
• 1998 - A better place
• 2000 - Ruby Shade
• 2002 - Crime Stories
• 2004 - Moving
• 2007 - Freak Show
• 2009 - Spirits
• 2010 - Stay Alive! (2 CD)