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Wednesday, July 6, 2016 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon
Legendary picker and songwriter headed to Sisters
Sisters Folk Festival will
host An Evening with Darrell
Scott, Wednesday, August 24,
at 7 p.m. at the Sisters High
School auditorium.
It has been 10 years since
Scott has played in Sisters,
and his many accomplish-
ments bring back a revi-
talized and highly accom-
plished artist, songwriter and
multi-instrumentalist.
Darrell Scott became
one of the more successful
country songwriters of the
late ’90s and early 2000s,
placing songs with the big-
gest names in country music,
including several major
chart hits. Garth Brooks, the
Dixie Chicks, Tim McGraw,
Faith Hill, and many others
recorded his work.
At the same time, he
worked consistently as a stu-
dio musician and released
a series of his own solo
albums. At the beginning of
the 2000s, Darrell Scott was
making his name as a song-
writer of idiosyncratic and
uncommonly soulful tunes
like “It’s a Great Day to
Be Alive” and “Long Time
Gone,” later recorded by
Travis Tritt and the Dixie
Chicks, respectively.
His instrumental talent
also earned him frequent ses-
sion and touring gigs, while
his own recordings landed
him a devoted following.
Scott recorded with Tim
O’Brien numerous times and
toured in 2015 behind their
latest release, “Memories and
Moments.”
Scott’s newest album,
“Couchville Sessions,” refers
back to that time of growth
with a bundle of songs that
were written and recorded
15 years ago, but edited and
completed in recent months
by Scott at his home on
Tennessee’s Cumberland
Plateau.
“Couchville Sessions is
my mix tape of life at the
time: my adult children were
young, my professional/
musical life rising, my mar-
riage needing attention and
wanting more and myself
getting lost in it all,” explains
Scott of the album’s genesis.
The son of musician
Wayne Scott, James Darrell
Scott was born August 6,
1959, on a tobacco farm
in London, Kentucky, and
moved as a child to East
Gary, Indiana. He was play-
ing professionally by his
teens in Southern California,
later living in Toronto and
Boston. He attended Tufts
University, where he studied
poetry and literature. Finally,
he relocated to Nashville to
get into the country music
business.
In the first half of the
1990s, Darrell appeared on
albums by John Lincoln
Wr i g h t , C a t i e C u r t i s ,
Hypnotic Clambake, Peter
Keane, Duke Levine, Suzy
Bogguss, and Randy Travis,
singing and playing banjo,
Dobro, guitar, bass, and
pedal steel. Scott has collabo-
rated with Steve Earle, Sam
Bush, Emmylou Harris, John
Cowan, Verlon Thompson,
Guy Clark, Kate Rusby,
Jimmie Dale Gilmore, Mary
Gauthier, and many oth-
ers. His unique music has
attracted a growing fan-base,
and he tours regularly with
his own band.
In early 2005, Scott’s
“Theatre Of The Unheard”
won Album of the Year in
the 4th Annual Independent
Music Awards. He won the
2007 Song of the Year award
from the Americana Music
Association for his song
“Hank Williams’ Ghost,”
which appears on his album
“The Invisible Man” released
in 2006.
In 2010, he was announced
as part of the Band of Joy,
alongside Robert Plant, and
luminary musicians Patti
Griffin, Byron House, Buddy
Miller, and Marco Giovino,
and credited with perform-
ing vocals, mandolin, guitar,
accordion, pedal, lap steel
and banjo and touring with
them internationally.
Tickets for SFF Presents
An Evening with Darrell
Scott are $25 adult/$15 youth
in advance, $5 more at the
door. Tickets can purchased
at www.sistersfolkfestival.
org, or call the festival office
at 541-549-4979. The show
starts at 7 p.m. at the Sisters
High School auditorium,
1700 McKinney Butte Rd.
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