SIERRA BONITA Video Directed/ Produced/ Shot/ Edited By Craig Temple (Racketeer Pictures) From the Rich Ragany album “You Can Get Dark With Me” on Barrel And Squidger Records.

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The video is a love letter to London past and present… Rags adds, “Craig Temple is so creative and talented.… taking a simple idea and making it so widescreen. A real journey. About the song… My friend from LA… her Dad disappeared on her early… But she tried for a reconnection. It didn’t work… but we spoke about how brave it was to try and steal back some moments in their lives “I don’t mind… you know I stole that for ya…” has that feeling of “you understand that you stole from me… I’ll try and steal ya something nice give to you … for you… anyways.” To try.

More universally, the song is about stealing one last moment of empathy and understanding in a lost situation. What it can do for the hearts involved. Moving on doesn’t necessarily mean giving up.

About the album and artist… The last few years has seen the Calgary, Canada born, New York City seasoned, and now UK based songsmith, Rich Ragany, build up quite a reputation with his various bands of rock n’roll trailblazers, The Role Models, The Loyalties and most recently, Rich Ragany & The Digressions. Rich’s songs have won over the hearts of many, most recently with the critically-acclaimed albums “Beyond Nostalgia & Heartache” and “What We Do (To Not Let Go)” gaining considerable airplay on BBC Introducing.

Rich over the years has shared stages with the likes of Ramones, Bad Brains, SNFU, Rammstein, Oasis, The Lemonheads, Warrior Soul, The Men They Couldn’t Hang, Whitfield Crane, Ginger Wildheart, The Professionals, Steve Conte (New York Dolls), Michael Monroe… as well as each band packing out venues in their own right. All this experience and resulting attention has brought him to signing a deal with Barrel And Squidger Records (who have released music by CJ Wildheart, Massive Wagons, members of Status Quo and Sex Pistols).

With a brand new album titled “You Can Get Dark With Me” Rich describes the new album: After the big dramatic production of The Digressions’ albums I wanted to create something more personal… a world of its own. So I decided to deconstruct to reconstruct. Every song is a mix of home recording, from the first day of writing each song, and proper studio stuff, to keep a real personal “straight from the moment of inspiration” feel… but have a sonically and emotionally expanded spirit as well. Guitars recorded on the fly in my bathroom as I wrote, in real-time. Mostly acoustic, later taken and manipulated to sound “electric” (inspired by the Stones’ similar sonic experiments on Street Fighting Man). Backing vocals done on the spot… some of these literally recorded on a phone mic in my bathroom. I then took all this to my trusted friend and talented producer, Andy Brook and added big studio-grade bass and drums via the talented duo of Simon Maxwell and Ricky McGuire… and experimented some more. Then JUNO and Canadian Country Music Award-winning producer (and another old friend and brother) Russell Broom got involved in a few tracks, most notably SIERRA BONITA Travelling back to my early home of Calgary and recording with him really brought things full circle. So… songs that started out so simple and solitary had travelled quite far. In its own world… reaching out now.