LOST STARS by Bob McNeill

Lost Stars started as a lockdown project, a collection of unfinished songs and some space to work on them. They were mostly written in 2019, on the road in North America, and were influenced by the places and people you meet on tour.

The songs tell unusual stories in unfamiliar landscapes: a relationship that can't survive crossing the state line between Oregon and California; a man who leaves the love of his life in central France; an islander slowly captured by big city life in Massachusetts. Russian sailors crossing the Pacific, to wind up in San Francisco among the Spanish missions. Lives lived in a failed boom town in the Mojave desert. Lost Stars also visits an eclectic group of great and quixotic figures - Amelia Earhart, running out of fuel over the Pacific; Robert Louis Stevenson, plodding through French mountains among the ghosts of the Camisards; and, in the title track, Carl Sagan.

Freed from the usual constraints of a production environment, and with McNeill playing all the instruments, the album is his most intimate to date, embracing all his eclectic influences, from folk to rock, alt-country and Spanish music.

Bob McNeill is a musician in Wellington, New Zealand. A three-time Tui-winner (NZ's Grammys), his songs have been covered by artists in NZ, Australia, the UK and USA

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