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COUNTRY MUSIC
the
old country music of cheating, drinking, working, longing- pre-garth,
pre-video, pre-urban-cowboy country music - the voice of working people-
people of the land - it is their poetry...country music and king james -
the country music cuts the deepest
KENTUCKY
my people came from kentucky- poor tobacco farmers of
first half 20th century and harlan county coal miners decades ahead of
that - descendants of scots & irish - they brought their music with
them
BAPTIZED
from silver haired daddy to momma's hungry eyes i was
baptized in country music - our first vacation (after my dad working in
gary, indiana steel mills for 6 years) was to nashville, tn. & the
grand ole opry we'd been listening to on radio - i got my first
instrument at a pawn shop on broadway (1965) the following year, my mom
dressed her kentucky best and marched into the 4 big labels in nashville
(rca, capitol, columbia, decca) and got as far as the desk receptionist
to leave a 45 of Wayne Scott & The 3 Ds (my brothers and i were the
3Ds) - i was 7 then - country music was the background music of my
childhood
LONG RIDE HOME
this is a country recording- 16 songs that travel
as far back as 30 years- 2 songs (The Country Boy and You're Everything I
Wanted Love To Be) written at 16, with my dad, Wayne Scott, when he
rented a cabin in big bear lake, california just for us to write (we
each finished the others' song) - there is a duet with Guy Clark (Out In
The Parking Lot) on a song Guy & i wrote together - there are guest
vocals from Rodney Crowell (Hopkinsville), Tim Obrien & John Cowan
(No Love In Arkansas & Too Close Too Comfort), and Patty Griffin
(You'll Be With Me All The Way)
THE PLAYERS
i recorded the album at home where we sat up around
the grand piano where THE pianist of country music, Hargus "pig"
Robbins, presided (pig started recording in nashville in 1957 - the 1st
hit he played on: George Jones' 'White Lightnin') - on drums, my
kayak/bicycling friend, Kenny Malone, a studio legend since 1975 (his
1st hit was Dobie Gray's 'Drift Away') - on upright bass: Dennis Crouch
(we'd played together in Steve Earle's Bluegrass Dukes & Dennis has
played on virtually all T Bone Burnett's recordings for the last 10
years & toured with Elvis Costello, Elton John, Robert Plant &
Alisson Krauss) - we 4 were the tracking band - then i stayed with
legends: Lloyd Green on pedal steel (Don Williams, Charlie Pride), on
harmonicas: Charlie McCoy (everyone from Dylan to Cash) & Mickey
Raphael (Willie) - then singers, Marcus Hummon, Jonell Mosser &
Kathy Chiavola (from Dixie Chicks to Emmylou Harris) and mixed &
mastered by Ray Kennedy (Lucinda Williams, Malcolm Holcomb)
it is country music how i remember it - with some of the players
that made the very music that was both lifting & breaking my heart
as a kid - what i find is the country music industry has changed, but
country & working people have not changed so much- they still love
country music when they hear it - i hope they get to hear this
a long ride home
-darrell scott
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