Darrell Scott

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Darrell Scott (2011)

Darrell Scott (born August 6, 1959 in London ( Kentucky )) is an American singer-songwriter and country musician. Stylistically, it can be assigned to the New Traditionalism direction. His reputation as a musician and songwriter is based on the one hand on his collaboration with numerous musicians from the established and alternative country sector, on the other hand on some of his songs - for example Hank William's Ghost , which was awarded Song of the Year in 2007 or the one in the television series Justified ballad used as outro motifYou'll Never Leave Harlan Alive . A number of Scott's compositions - including the two listed - have been covered by other performers.

biography

Darrell Scott, son of singer-songwriter Wayne Scott, spent his childhood and youth on a tobacco farm in Kentucky. Later there was a change of location to Gary , Indiana . On the one hand, Scott's childhood was marked by material shortages. Father Wayne Scott, whose family roots were in Harlan County , southeast Kentucky, made a living in Gary as a steel worker ; At times he also drove out diesel oil in a truck at the weekend . On the other hand, the Scott house was full of musical instruments; In addition to Darrel, his four brothers also harbored enthusiasm and ambitions for music. Darrell Scott gained his first experience as a musician during stays in Southern California , Toronto and Boston . He studied poetry and literature at Tufts University in Boston . From the mid-1990s, Darrell Scott established himself as a session musician and composer in Nashville , Tennessee . In parallel to these activities, he pushed an independent career as a country musician.

Scott's first album, Aloha from Nashville, was released in 1997. In addition to other songs - including Heartbreak Town , which was later recorded by the Dixie Chicks - it contained the most-covered piece by Scott: the heavily bluegrass- heavy folk ballad You'll Never Leave Harlan Alive . Another multi-covered Scott track - Hank William's Ghost , released on the album The Invisible Man in 2006 - was named Song of the Year in 2007 by the Americana Music Association (AMA) . Conversely, Scott interpreted not only his own compositions on his albums, but also well-known and less well-known foreign material - for example the successful Johnny Cash title Big River , Loretta by Townes van Zandt , Ramblin Man by Hank Williams or Another Gray Morning by James Taylor . Three albums were co-produced with bluegrass and country musician Tim O'Brien . In addition, Scott released a tribute of album in 2015 with pieces by singer-songwriter Ben Bullington, who died in 2013 .

As a studio and touring musician, Darrell Scott has played with numerous well-known acts in the country industry, including Suzy Bogguss , Garth Brooks , Guy Clark , Steve Earle , Mary Gauthier , Emmylou Harris , Hal Ketchum , Kate Rusby and Randy Travis . In 2010 Scott was part of the Band of Joy - a crossover project set up by Led Zeppelin singer Robert Plant that brought together approaches from rock and folk music. A number of Scott's songs have found widespread use. Long Time Gone, written with Tim O'Brien, was covered by the Dixie Chicks, as was Heartbreak Town . The song We've Got Nothing But Love to Prove was re-recorded by Faith Hill , It's a Great Day to be Alive by Travis Tritt , the bluegrass track With a Memory Like Mine by Mountain Heart and Red Molly . The most covered Scott song is probably the ballad You'll Never Leave Harlan Alive . In 2010 Brad Paisley recorded a version of it. Among others, Paisley's version was used in the TV series Justified - as was the version by Dave Alvin (recorded as a single release) and that by Ruby Friedman . Independent of the television series, other artists took the song in their repertoire - including country singers Kathy Mattea and Patty Loveless .

In 2005 Darrell Scott produced his father's first album, Wayne Scott (Title: This Weary Way) . Wayne, who began to love country music in the post-war years and performed with a live band in the 1970s, died on November 18, 2011 in a traffic accident near Corbin , Kentucky.

Reviews

An article published in 2011 in Tufts Magazine of the Boston University of the same name characterized Darrell Scott as a musician whose name most people would certainly not know by name, but his ballads, which were always very personal. In a review of the Couchville Sessions album, the American Songwriter magazine paid tribute to the musical reworking of the classic material contained on the album. Hank Williams' Ramblin Man, for example, is dressed for seven minutes, while the version of Johnny Cash's Big River is dressed in a new twang sound.

Albums

  • Aloha From Nashville (1997, JustUs Records)
  • Family Three (1999, Sugar Hill Records)
  • Theater Of The Unheard (2003, Full Light Records)
  • Theater Of The Unheard (2003, Full Light Records)
  • Darrell Scott, Danny Thompson & Kenny Malone - Live in NC (2004, Full Light Records)
  • Real Time (with Tim OBrien; 2005, Full Light Records)
  • The Invisible Man (2006, Full Light Records)
  • Modern Hymns (2008, Appleseed Recordings)
  • A Crooked Road (2010, Full Light Records)
  • Long Ride Home (2012, Full Light Records)
  • We're Usually A Lot Better Than This (with Tim O'Brien; 2012, Full Light Records)
  • Memories And Moments (with Tim OBrien; 2013, Full Skies Records)
  • Ten Songs Of Ben Bullington (2015, Full Light Records)
  • Couchville Sessions (2016, Full Light Records)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Crooked Road to Nashville . Hugh Howard, August 9, 2011
  2. ↑ a b Darrell Scott . William Ruhlmann, biography entry at allmusic.com, accessed on June 23, 2016
  3. ↑ List of awards from the Americana Music Association ( Memento from June 13, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ↑ Darrell Scott . Darrell Scott's discography at discogs.com, accessed June 23, 2016
  5. ↑ Darrell Scott Pays Tribute to Late Songwriter Ben Bullington . Dave Shiflett, Rolling Stone, June 28, 2015
  6. ↑ Singer-songwriter Wayne Scott Passes . Robert K. Oermann, musicrow.com, November 28, 2011
  7. ↑ Darrell Scott: Couchville Sessions . Hal Horowitz, americansongwriter.com, May 13, 2016

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personal data
SURNAME Scott, Darrell
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American songwriter
DATE OF BIRTH August 6, 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH London (Kentucky) , Kentucky, USA