Radici is an album of Italian singer-songwriter Francesco Guccini

Francesco Guccini

Francesco Guccini is an Italian singer-songwriter, considered one of the most important Cantautori. During the five decades of his music career he has recorded 16 studio albums and collections, and 6 live albums. He is also a writer, having published autobiographic and noir novels, and a comics...

. It was released in 1972 by EMI

EMI

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The album

Radici ("Roots") deals mainly with Guccini's rediscover of his youth, symbolized by the cover's picture, portraying his grandparents and family. The family's house in Pavana, on the Tuscan Apennines, is in fact the theme of the title-track. "Il vecchio e il bambino", the last track, is one of most famous Guccini's ballads, as well "La locomotiva", describing a failed rail attempt of a 19th century Bolognese

Bologna

Bologna is the capital city of Emilia-Romagna, in the Po Valley of Northern Italy. The city lies between the Po River and the Apennine Mountains, more specifically, between the Reno River and the Savena River. Bologna is a lively and cosmopolitan Italian college city, with spectacular history,...

 anarchist, and which has since then ended all singer's concertoes. "Piccola città" is about Guccini's youth in Modena

Modena

Modena is a city and comune on the south side of the Po Valley, in the Province of Modena in the Emilia-Romagna region of Italy....

, where his parents had moved after World War II

World War II

World War II, or the Second World War , was a global conflict lasting from 1939 to 1945, involving most of the world's nations—including all of the great powers—eventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis...

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A notable poetical effort is present in songs such as "Canzone della bambina portoghese" and "Canzone dei dodici mesi", while "Incontro" deals with the melancholy of a late rendez-vous between Guccini and an old friend.

Personnel

• Francesco Guccini - voice and guitar
• Ares Tavolazzi
  Ares Tavolazzi
  Ares Tavolazzi is an Italian bass player and jazz musician born in Ferrara.-Biography:He studied cello and double bass in the Music School of Ferrara and began his career as bassist playing for Carmen Villani in a beat group, with his future collaborator, drummer Ellade Bandini...
  
   - bass
• Ellade Bandini - drums
• Vince Tempera - piano, keyboards
• Deborah Kooperman - flute, guitars, banjo
• Maurizio Vandelli - mellotron, moog

Track listing

• "Radici" (7:12)
• "La locomotiva" (8:17)
• "Piccola città" (4:38)
• "Incontro" (3:37)
• "Canzone dei dodici mesi" (5:33)
• "Canzone della bambina portoghese" (7:03)
• "Il vecchio e il bambino" (4:19)