Italian singer-songwriter featured in DeBaser reviews as a country/folk artist active from the 1970s. Known for on-the-road performances, re-proposing American folk and protest songs (including work spreading Woody Guthrie’s songs in Italy), and for a largely self-produced, artisanal recording approach.

Reviews note activity at Folkstudio and in Roman streets, early work reinterpreting American folk and protest songs, several albums dating from the mid-1970s onward, occasional self-production and a preference for preserving artistic identity rather than pursuing mainstream success. Reviews also reference a public association or comparison with Francesco De Gregori.

Three DeBaser reviews portray Luigi Grechi as an itinerant Italian country-folk singer-songwriter rooted in 1970s folk and protest-song traditions. Reviews emphasize his on-the-road career, reverence for simple things, and a modest, self-produced approach to recording. Key albums covered are Pastore Di Nuvole, Campione Senza Valore and Come state?.

For:Fans of Italian folk and country, collectors of 1970s singer-songwriter records, listeners interested in on-the-road, self-produced music.

 Luigi Grechi for us is just like that. An evoker of a dimension that is now scattered and lost, buried under a layer of "commitments" and cynicism, along with nights under stars, contact with the earth, and fields full of fireflies.

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 Luigi Grechi has made the metaphor of the journey his entire artistic career, discontinuous, between stops, ascents, descents, different landscapes rich in charm, like on a pilgrimage along the paths of the Dea Musica.

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 So, almost for fun, partly for the absurd cheguevara- visitors- cover, and partly because on the back cover Grechi’s kitchen looked identical to mine—HOME SWEET HOME that we had left years ago and always miss— it was a pleasant surprise, even though I’m not a fan of country-rock, a genre that pervades Grechi’s musical choices, and anyway, it’s worth saying that his calm, unobtrusive tones never bothered anyone, carving out his own nice ecological niche away from the larger spotlights

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