16/01/2025
Good Time Music is glad to welcome American Mafia, to it’s rosters. The band is set for full length release late 2025.
Partners in Crime (Good Time Music, 2025)
Partners in Crime is a compilation record available (soon!) on Good Time Music featuring different eras of the American Mafia/Holy Water catalog and illuminating the scope of Innamorato and Villano's musical collaborations.
Songs one through five, "Superstar," "Gistified," "Ride On Through," "Lead the Way," and "When London Sleeps," were originally released by Lions Pride Music in 2017 on the five-song EP Made in New York. The lineup features singer Don Chaffin (Riot Act) and drummer Bobby Marks (Humble Pie). Mark Diggins of therockpit.net called this original release, "five flawless tracks of classic rock perfection, full of groove and bluesy style." Recently remixed by Michael Harmon of Studio Crash in Philadelphia for Partners in Crime, these five songs are now adorned with all of Chaffin's original ornamental backing vocal parts (as the singer initially intended) and include newly recorded keyboard embellishments by David Easton, sonic elements that provide the material with a fresh, melodic sensibility. Stacy Odell did the mastering.
Songs six, seven, and eight, "I'm Not Worried Anymore," "If I Knew Then," and "Some Things Have to Happen," were originally part of the highly regarded, now-mythic bootleg demo The Green Machine Sessions, produced by Foreigner keyboardist and Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee Al Greenwood and Rockin' Reel Recording Studios owner/engineer Dave Greenberg. Innamorato also co-produced, and along with Villano released this material officially in 2009 as part of The Collected Sessions under the Holy Water banner on Perris Records. In addition to Innamorato, Villano, and Greenwood, the lineup features David Knight on vocals and drummer Chuck Bonfante (Saraya). Had grunge not come along, these three songs "easily could have catapulted them into Top 10 status," championed Derric Miller of hardrockhaven.net. Stacy Odell re-mastered the three tunes, reinvigorating them with new-found heft for Partners in Crime.
Songs nine and ten, a unique spin on the Starship classic "Jane" and a re-recording of the Holy Water tentpole, "I'm Not Worried Anymore," are exclusive to Partners in Crime, and feature a lineup that includes Michael Santarsiero on lead vocals, Vic Pullen on drums, Grammy winner Lonnie Park on keyboards, and a guest appearance by Paul Kayen (Rhett Forrester/Aldo Nova) on additional lead and rhythm guitars. Mixed and mastered by Stacy Odell, these two fiery performances are the latest entrants into the American Mafia catalog.
American Mafia logo and Partners in Crime album cover art by Mark Rizzo
Photos by Sofia Innamorato and Paula Murray Cole
Photo editing by Freddy Villano
