(Press Release) The ghosts of Christmas past are chased away by New Jersey singer/songwriter Jack Skuller’s high-energy new seasonal song, “Stuck in This Holiday” — though it also shows he knows his history. The 20-year-old singer-songwriter, who has been performing since his debut single at age fourteen went on a different kind of journey to get to “This Holiday.” All the way to Memphis, Tennessee and the roots of rock, where Jack visited and did a session at Sun Studios (legendary home of Howlin’ Wolf, Elvis Presley and others). Working with local Memphis musicians and taking the lead on vocals, guitar and harmonica, Jack absorbed the atmosphere of the area’s musical mythology and cut two songs, his own “Stuck in This Holiday” (co-written with acclaimed indie guitarist and leading man of the Tall Pines alt-Americana duo, Christmas Davis), and Floyd Dixon’s 1950s classic “Empty Stocking Blues.”
Jack taps the timeless heartache of such songs while bringing a blast of sound that is pure present-day club-rock adrenaline. “This Holiday” is a punkabilly 3-minute epic of Christmastime loneliness, and “Empty Stocking” a master class in haunted hollering blues. In honor of the vintage sources, the two songs will come out in a limited pressing of 300 7-inch vinyl singles (with “This Holiday” as the A-side), before being available online. First comes the physical disc as part of a PledgeMusic campaign (http://www.pledgemusic.com/jackskuller). Then the songs will be digitally released via New Jersey indie label Mint 400 Records on iTunes and streaming on Spotify as of November 11. True to the spirit of the season and the cheer the song may bring to others with high hopes and a hurting heart, 10% of Jack’s profits will be donated to the Holiday Express charity (http://holidayexpress.org/our-mission/).
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