Mike Zito - Life Is Hard - VINYL LP

EU double 180 gm vinyl LP pressing of the singer, songwriter and guitarist's 2006 album. Recording sessions for the album took place during November 2005 to September 2006 at the Village Recorder in Los Angeles, California, Avatar Studios and Right Track/Sound on Sound in New York City, and Royal Studios in Memphis, Tennessee. Production was handled primarily by Mayer and Steve Jordan. This album marked a change in Mayer's musical style and incorporated musical elements of Blues and Soul more heavily than in his previous work 13 tracks. 2010.

Mike Zito returns home with his fourth solo studio album for Gulf Coast Records. A personal record for Mike shaped by memory, places, and renewal. Walking the streets of his birthplace, St. Louis, Zito reconnects with the sounds, stories, and hard lessons that forged his signature blend of soul-driven blues and fearless storytelling. Thirteen years after Gone to Texas, this album feels like a defining moment, marking a new chapter for Mike, his family, and a life reclaimed in the city that started it all. 2xLP Blue Vinyl (Blank Side D)

Vinyl LP pressing. 2018 . Mike Zito celebrates the 20th anniversary of his very first recorded in 1998 in St. Louis, MO. This recording is 20 years old and has stood the test of time. Blue Room changed everything. As the album sold, the songs began to be requested live - displacing the Cream and Hendrix covers - and Zito was heralded as an artist of rare potential. Back then, he didn't anticipate the bitter-sweet future about to unfold - the lost years of alcoholism in the post-millennium, the salvation offered by his wife, Laura, the plaudits of Royal Southern Brotherhood in 2012 and the rising trajectory of his solo career since he picked it back up with 2015's Keep Coming Back. But when Zito looks back now at Blue Room, he wouldn't change a thing InchI find such joy in listening to the young man on this recording. I'm so proud that it's finally being released by Ruf Records after twenty years...Inch