Nick Pagliari

Columbia, South Carolina
31 Years Old
Singer-Songwriter, Lyricist

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LEVEL

semi-pro

GENRES

Singer/Songwriter, Americana/Roots, Folk

PUBLISHING COMPANY

Riverking Publishing, I own my own publishing

P.R.O.

SESAC

INSTRUMENTS

acoustic guitar / keyboard / vocals

INFLUENCES

Tom Petty, Bob Dylan, Levon Helm, Radiohead, Jeff Tweedy, Jay Farrar, Ryan Adams, anything from STAX, Eddie Vedder, Bruce Springsteen, John Hiatt, Big Star, Lucinda Williams, REM, Ray Lamontagne, Willie Mitchell, Todd Snider to name a few...

I AM INTERESTED IN

in networking with songwriters
in pitching songs to artist
in pitching songs to tv

I WRITE:

When I'm in the mood

I Also Write:
by myself
for myself

I Prefer To Write:
lyrics
melody
music

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SONG PLACEMENTS

P.S. I Love You - Film MTV's Real World Brooklyn

OTHER SONG OR ALBUM CREDITS

Fairfax song "If I Die" on This Is Americana, Volume 1 "Don't Wanna Die Lonely" on Paste Magazine CD Sampler in November of 2008 issue and American Songwriter Nov 2008 issue on Craft of Song Vol 3

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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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