Vic Ruggiero - Stuff in My Pockets (2022) [Hi-Res]

Brand new solo album from the globally respected all-rounder from Brooklyn. Since the beginning of the nineties, Victor Ruggiero has had an unprecedentedly diverse music career. With his best-known band, The Slackers, he has released a good 20 albums and toured the world. He has also performed with punk rock band Rancid, both live and in the studio. But Vic is a thoroughbred musician through and through - far more numerous are his contributions to smaller and less well-known bands and projects, be it as a permanent musician, guest, songwriter or producer. He's also been releasing solo albums, as a one-man band and with a studio line-up since the late '90s, and while he's primarily known as a ska and reggae musician, the multi-instrumentalist and gifted singer has always been a huge fan of all kinds of roots styles. Folk, blues, rock'n'roll, country, soul, garage, glam and proto-punk characterize his solo work, so it's no wonder that "Stuff In My Pocket" is like a lucky bag of the finest song pearls from the late sixties, held together by his distinctive Brooklyn-accented vocals with their unmistakable wistful, melancholic timbre