James Darrell Scott known as Darrell Scott (b August 6, 1959, London, Kentucky), the son of musician Wayne Scott with whom he has collaborated, is an American singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. He was playing professionally by his teens in Southern California, later living in Toronto and Boston.
When it comes to masterful solo performers, there’s Darrell Scott and then there’s everyone else. This he proved with a stellar May 13 gig at the King Arts Complex’s Nicholson Auditorium – basically a large, open room with chairs put in rows – in Columbus, Ohio, under the auspices of Six String Concerts.
If you tuned into this year’s Country Music Awards ceremony, you might have seen Darrell Scott: There he was on guitar, backing up a duet between Chris Stapleton and Patty Loveless on his song, “You’ll Never Leave Harlan Alive.” The song has been recorded by Patty Loveless and Brad Paisley
If you tuned into this year’s Country Music Awards ceremony, you might have seen Darrell Scott: There he was on guitar, backing up a duet between Chris Stapleton and Patty Loveless on his song, “You’ll Never Leave Harlan Alive.”
Darrell Scott is a master songwriter: Travis Tritt and the Dixie Chicks have taken his songs to the Country Top 5, he’s been voted Nashville Songwriter of the Year, and he’s received a Grammy nomination for Best Country Song.
Performing without a band, he strapped on an electric guitar and casually test drove a few licks with a sensibility far jazzier than what we might expect out of such a championed Americana stylist.
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