Bill Ricchini

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Singer/songwriter Bill Ricchini was born in Philadelphia, PA, on January 22, 1974 . Though indie rock was his main interest when he began writing songs while attending college at La Salle University in Philadelphia, it was his parents' record collection -- the Beatles, the Beach Boys, the Ronettes -- that would influence his debut album, Ordinary Time. Ricchini initially got his start recording his songs on a four-track and sharing them with friends. Following college, he worked as a freelance music writer for the Philadelphia Weekly and Philadelphia Inquirer but quit in 2001 to focus on music full-time. He recorded Ordinary Time that year on his home computer at his south Philadelphia apartment. Ricchini contributed vocals and acoustic guitar parts, adding synthesizers, tambourine, cello, trumpet, sleigh bells, vocal harmonies, even a children's toy xylophone, not to mention parts from his band (Bill Avayou, drums and percussion; Brian Christinzio, organ, Fender Rhodes, harmony vocals; Chris Doyle, electric guitar; and Nathan Slabaugh, trumpet), recording some songs that contained as many as 30 tracks. Dinner party music on a cold winter's night in Vermont. "This is a summer record about the winter," Ricchini wrote in the album's liner notes, referring to the summer he spent recording an album that evokes winter's chill and endless nights. Ordinary Time, the Catholic Church's term for calendar days that do not fit into the Advent or Lent seasons, manages to balance i

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Tonight I Burn Brightly

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Ordinary Time

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Grey's Anatomy Original Soundtrack

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Grey's Anatomy, Vol. 3

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The Music Of Grey's Anatomy

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Grey's Anatomy Volume 3

Grey's Anatomy, Vol. 3 (Original Soundtrack)

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Grey's Anatomy (Original Soundtrack) [Box Set]

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Grey's Anatomy: Original Soundtrack, Vol. 3

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Grey's Anatomy

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