Scott Fab

Scott Fab, a singer and songwriter known for his warmly melancholic tone, first surfaced in the Detroit hardcore punk scene of the 1980s as the drummer for GCMS. By the early 1990s he had shifted to acoustic music and earned regard as an alt-folk tunesmith whose dark-hued introspective style stood out. In the years that followed he became a steady presence on the Detroit music circuit and issued two independent EPs, the most notable being 1997’s Lately. During the period when major-label contracts still dominated, Fab chased demo arrangements with several prominent record companies before withdrawing from the business in the early 2000s. Roughly a decade later he reappeared in tentative fashion, arranging a few low-key performances and renewing ties with Southeast Michigan’s music network. Alongside longtime associates Cary Marsh and Gary Watts, he returned to Big Sky Recording in Ann Arbor, the studio where he and engineer Geoff Michael had completed his prior project nearly twenty years earlier. The sessions produced his first full-length album, the understated Leave My Friends, issued in 2017.