Gene Sculatti

Gene Sculatti
Born	Eugene Paul Sculatti (1947-01-30) January 30, 1947 (age 78) [1] [2] San Francisco, California, U.S.
Occupation	Music journalist

Eugene Paul Sculatti (born January 30, 1947) is an American music journalist who compiled and edited the book The Catalog of Cool (1982). ^{[3] [4]} In 1966, he became the first journalist to write about the nascent San Francisco music scene in a national magazine ( Crawdaddy! ). ^[5] He is formerly an editorial director for Warner Bros. Records and the magazine Billboard . ^[6] He has also written for Rolling Stone , Creem , and Radio & Records . ^[7]

Sculatti is also a folk artist whose Cityscape series of hand-drawn scrolls has been featured in the UK's Raw Vision ^[8] , an international journal of Outsider Art.

References

1. "Eugene Paul Sculatti, Born 01/30/1947 in California". CaliforniaBirthIndex.org.
2. "THE MAJESTIC WEST SCROLLGene Sculatti — Wimpole Street Writers". Wimpolestreetwriters.com. Retrieved July 7, 2017.
3. Henderson, Richard (2010). Van Dyke Parks' Song Cycle. Bloomsbury Publishing. p. 6. ISBN   978-1-4411-4315-0.
4. Frank, Thomas C. (1997). Baffler: The Journal That Blunts the Cutting Edge. Baffler. p. 194. ISBN   978-1-888984-09-5.
5. "Gene Sculatti". Rock's Backpages . n.d.
6. Fenterstock, Alison (July 22, 2015). "Dr. John's '60s, '70s Atlantic singles collected in new compilation, due out Sept. 18". Nola.com.
7. O'Rourke, Sally (November 10, 2016). "BOOK: Gene Sculatti, 'Tryin' to Tell a Stranger 'Bout Rock and Roll: Selected Writings, 1966-2016'". Rebeat.
8. "GENE SCULATTI". RAW VISION. Retrieved October 30, 2025.