Wednesday, May 28, 2014

Marc Scibila

Soulful singer/songwriter rock from a young New Yorker living in Nashville.  One of his 6 non-live tracks available on Spotify has 142k listens, while the rest of his stuff have much fewer spins.  That most popular song is 2013's How Bad We Need Each Other, and according to Wikipedia, it has been used on a few TV shows:


That is some Ben Harper-esque soul right there.  His 2013 EP is a little more rock and roll that owes a pretty good debt to Springsteen, going between the bluesy, kind of Arc Angels-ish The Shape I'm In, the Springsteen-lite Bad Boys, the earnest and country-ish Shining Like America, and the stripped-down Finally:

In an odd move, the studio version of this song on his EP is a piano-based version that sounds like a Jackson Browne hymn, while this jangly video version is much more of his own spare rocker.  This guy is pretty good.

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