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Zack Gruczkowski

Nashville, Tennessee
23 Years Old
Band, Songwriter, Producer
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"I just kinda died for you, and you just kinda stared at me."
BIOGRAPHY
I am 21 year old musician, model, and student. Born and raised in Atlanta, Georgia, I began playing guitar at age 8 and have picked up the drums, bass, and vocals in my songwriting experiences. I received my Certificate in Music Business from the University of Georgia in 2008 and have since moved to Nashville to be an intern at American Songwriter Magazine.
INSTRUMENTS
bass / drums / acoustic guitar / electric guitar / vocals
INFLUENCES
Foo Fighters, Stone Temple Pilots, Red Hot Chili Peppers, John Frusciante, Incubus, Kings Of Leon, Jonatha Brooke, David Bowie, Queen, Neil Young
DAY JOB
Intern at American Songwriter Magazine, Server at the Green Hills Grill
I AM INTERESTED IN
in co writing in person
in networking with songwriters
in pitching songs to tv
in getting a record deal
in getting a publishing deal
I WRITE:
For a living

I Also Write:
by myself
for myself

I Prefer To Write:
lyrics
melody
music
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SONG PLACEMENTS
My song,"Nothin' Good", performed by Where's Tallulah was placed on the nationwide reggae compilation "20Twenty" in 2005
AWARDS & ACCOLADES
Won the 99x/Treesound Studios Battle of the Bands contest in Duluth, GA in 2005 with my high school band, Where's Tallulah.
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Cadillac Sky

Cadillac Sky should be a lot more tired. It’s early Saturday afternoon at MerleFest and the band–Bryan Simpson, Matt Menefree, Andrew Moritz, Ross Holmes and newest addition David Mayfield–has already logged two performances on the day....

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Sessions: David Bazan

It was pretty slow. I mean, I played [the songs] on acoustic guitar for a long time, but I didn’t know how to transfer them to the other format. I didn’t want it to be a solo acoustic record. I wanted there to be bells and whistles and full band arrangements even if I didn’t want it necessarily to be electric guitar rock....

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Sessions: Vetiver

“It’s always slightly confounding to me whenever Vetiver is depicted with the same tropes that people have read off of press sheets,” says Andy Cabic. “The same sort of milestones get mentioned but then no one really digs to find out that there are those other things going on.”

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Behind The Song: “Ain’t Nothing Like the Real Thing”

Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell sang, it has been remarked, like lovers, although they weren’t. Similarly, Nickolas Ashford and Valerie Simpson, the team behind one of Marvin and Tammi’s most enduring hits, “Ain’t Nothing Like the Real Thing,” wrote as if under the influence of amatory forces; even if, in the spring of 1968,

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yessss! we actually listened to it yesterday when it came in the mail :) love it. have a wonderful day in the intern lair!
07/10/2008 12:41 PM