Rich Lynch Releases 'Hollywood Star'

Rich Lynch returns in February 2015 with his latest digital release "Hollywood Star" that finds the New Jersey rocker pursuing a new "Nashville" sound on a countrified track based on a true story pulled from the local headlines.

"In January 2014 I woke up to the news about the story of about a young lady who made the tragic decision to end her own life," said Lynch. "I had trouble comprehending what I had read and spent the next several weeks consuming everything that was out there online about it and this song emerged."

The four minute and thirty second track opens with a lullabyesque hook that launches into a steady acoustic framework supported by sections of melancholy slide guitar.

"I didn't set out to go country it just sort of happened," Lynch remarked, adding "and the result was quite fitting considering the subject matter."

The somber and introspective song got its title from one of the blogs that ran the story of the highly publicized suicide and it looks at the tragedy from the eyes of a person on the other side of the newsprint trying to understand the unfathomable.

"It's called 'Hollywood Star' but more likely it could be the soundtrack to a Lifetime movie," Lynch suggested.

For the people who have heard it so far the feedback has been across the board very positive and promising overall from critics and peers alike.

U.K. music reviewer Boulent Mustafa (OBS Music UK) praised the song's "upbeat yet poignant lyrics, which are delivered by Rich Lynch's impressive vocal range." New Jersey writer Gary Wien of NewJerseyStage.com said "The song sounds good. Great production and very catchy. Love the guitar work!"

Fellow NJ-based rocker musician Dan Sheehan of the Dan Sheehan Conspiracy (www.dansheehan.net) said " 'Hollywood Star' is the best song I've heard yet from the Rich Lynch Band. The song has a nice, full production replete with Nashville sounding guitar and a Hammond that sounds like it's going through a Leslie speaker, giving the song a cool old school vibe behind the soulful vocals. Rich and his band are from New Jersey, and this song continues in the tradition of working class Jersey bands such as the E Street Band in the way it tells the story of a girl we all could know."

John Sheehan (www.johnsheehan.net) is a respected guitarist and songwriter in the region who cultivates talent regularly via his hosting duties at a weekly Original Music Night in West Milford. He called 'Hollywood Star' "an excellent song with some beautiful underlying pedal steel leads".

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