Joe Scutella
Nashville, Tennessee, United States | SELF
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1999 Love is a Train
2010 Hang In There
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Singer song writer Joe Scutella found his way to music and song writing while living in the college town of Bellingham Washington in the early 1970's. After putting down a baseball following an arm injury Joe picked up the guitar and began writing songs almost instantly, playing and performing them. A few years later, as a collector of a myriad of percussion instruments and found objects, Joe joined the seminal world music-Jazz band Chuck Ventrello and Concourse as a percussionist. Still, the guitar and song writing remained his fist loves. By the late seventies Joe was a member of the Boston based band, the Fredrick Martin Band. From there his crafty, catchy tunes became well known in clubs, concert halls and colleges throughout the north east and mid Atlantic. Working with guitarist Marty O'Connor and fellow song writer Robert Ortiz, and with his own bands and as a soloist throughout the 80's, Joe continued to travel, write and perform, building an impressive catalog of songs which lead him to his first publishing deal in Nashville in 1994 with Sentor music. More deals followed, with NotStock Music, EMI Blackwood Music and the Talbott Music group. Now, some 16 years later, Joe's songs have been heard and recorded around the world by the likes of Canada's Billie Joyce, Steve Fox, Patricia Conroy and Carolyn Friesen, as well as country-Americana artists like George Ducas, Rhet Akins and Melodie Crittendon, and folk artists Donal Hinely, Ross Falzone, Peter Vesth and many more. Joe has released 2 records to date, 1998's "Love is a train" and 2010's "Hang in there." He is about to ralease some back catalog as well. He has twice been a finalist at the prestigious Kerrville Folk Festival new folk series, in 1998 and 2010, as well as a new folk finalist in the Napa Valley Wine and Music festival in 1999. Joe lives in Nashville still, where he continues to write while heading his own publishing company, Jupiter Inlet Music.
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