Tony Face Big Roll Band
Old Soul Rebel

Once upon a time, there was this Kevin Rowland, a modern-day Diogenes, who went in search of the young rebel souls, but soon realized it was not possible.

Today, some say that young souls are too busy turning rebellion into profit - this doesn't seem new to me - and that true rebellion resides in a few old souls that sometimes return.

Old like that of Antonio "Tony Face" Bacciocchi, drummer of Chelsea Hotel and Not Moving, among other things (and among the many, I like to at least remember his extraordinary blog).

Reaching the threshold of a thirty-year career in 2009, Tony decided it was time to celebrate.

So he gathered some fellow travelers and, with the firm Tony Face Big Roll Band, churned out this «Old Soul Rebel» which claims nothing but to take a handful of records off the shelf that have constituted the soundtrack of his life, and that of many other old souls who found an anchor and a reason for living in rock'n'roll. It seems strange, but such people really do exist.

People who think music can only be good or bad, whether it's called jazz, soul, R&B, garage, mod, or punk, and the only choice is which side to take.

People who, on January 7, 2014, instead of listening to yet another next big thing (Strypes, just to name one), bought this «Old Soul Rebel» for a few bucks with guilty delay and are unabashedly enjoying the listening experience.

And a tear even falls when Sergio Milani starts with «Visionary», because surely the young souls don't even know who Sergio Milani is, and the same goes for «Visionary» and Husker Du.

Does it make sense, then, to get excited over the fact that members of James Taylor Quartet and Prisoners, Purple Hearts and Small World, Statuto and Sick Rose wanted to participate in Tony's party?

Does it make sense to get wild over the fiery notes of Georgie Fame, Ikettes (!!!) and Supremes, Ray Charles, Gil Scott Heron and Sly & the Family Stone, blasted from the stereo?

Rhetorical questions, both for old and young rebel souls; what changes is just the answer.