Jobi Riccio Shares Gripping New Single ‘Final Movie Scene’

Jobi Riccio has released the standalone single “Final Movie Scene.” The poignant track comes one year after Yep Roc issued Riccio’s debut album, Whiplash.

The Colorado-bred, Tennessee-based singer-songwriter was on the 2024 Newport Folk Festival lineup. Jobi Riccio filmed a stripped-down rendition of “Final Movie Scene” while in Newport for an installment of the festival’s Behind The Walls video series released today.

“‘Final Movie Scene’ is a song about escaping,” explained Riccio. “Whether it be into a fantasy version of your life or into another person or relationship. It speaks to the secret desire I think we all feel at some point to be swept out of our current reality and into something beautiful and all consuming to avoid examining hard things in our lives, all the while knowing it isn’t realistic or healthy.”

Jobi Riccio, who recently made her television debut on CBS Saturday, devised her new song while hibernating in the mountains. “I was house sitting for several weeks by myself during a big snowstorm back in Colorado when I wrote ‘Final Movie Scene’ and I wanted to capture that feeling of isolation and fantasizing in a cinematic way in the production, drawing inspiration from songs such as ‘Exit Music (For a Film)’ by Radiohead,” Riccio added.

Stream Jobi Riccio’s “Final Movie Scene” and watch her Behind The Walls performance below:

Jobi Riccio will spend the beginning of December opening for The Wood Brothers. Ricco’s run supporting the duo spans December 5 – 15.