Released 1972 Producer Pier Farri Artist Francesco Guccini | Length 40 min. 44 sec. Radici
(1972) Opera buffa
(1973) Release date 1972 | |
Genre Italian singer-songwriters Label Columbia Graphophone Company Similar Francesco Guccini albums, Other albums | ||
Radici is an album of Italian singer-songwriter Francesco Guccini. It was released in 1972 by EMI.
Contents
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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 the most famous Guccini's ballads, as well "La locomotiva", describing a failed suicide attack by a 19th-century Bolognese anarchist against a luxury train; the latter song has since then ended all singer's concertoes. "Piccola città" is about Guccini's youth in Modena, where his parents had moved after World War II.
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
Track listing
Songs
1Radici7:12
2La locomotiva8:18
3Piccola città4:38