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Scott C. Brooks

www.scottcbrooks.com Grass, Blues & Old Time

About Me

Scott C Brooks has been playing music, writing songs, and working in the entertainment field for fifteen years. He has been influenced by folk blues styles of music. He started playing the bottle neck style of slide guitar when He turned 16 at the behest of a friend, Daryl Davis. He lives with his wife in Baltimore were he stays active in the entertainment industry and tutors music. Scott was born in Heidelburg Germany in 1976.He is also working on his Debut solo blues and folk ablum. While he loves being a professional visual and musical artist, he also loves repairing and building folk instruments.Living in the Mid-atlantic area for awhile, Scott has done a few theater apprenticeships and worked as a scenic carpenter, artist, lighting, audio, and video engineer. He joined the army at 21 served his time and got out. After leaving the army, on his 26th birthday, he returned to the Mid-Atlantic area and continued on with his career in arts and entertainment. His new blues album project, ON TIN AND RAW is available for download and soon will be available on CD.Scott is also working with folk and mainstream music acts to reintroduce traditional slide and Dobro music in the local music scene. His intention is to become a living record of slide guitar styles. He records regularly in his project studio, and explores the different styles and eras of the sounds of slide music.

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Member Since: 3/1/2007
Band Website: scottcbrooks.com
Band Members: Scott C Brooks, Guitar, Slide Guitar, Dobro, Cello Dulcimer, Vocals, Songwriter
Influences: Skip James, Charlie Patton, Robert Johnson, Son House, Willie Brown, Tommy Johnson, Bukka White, Fred McDowell, Willie Brown, Tommy McClennan, Elvie Thomas, Leadbelly, Warren Hayes, Daryl Davis, Ralph Stanley, Doc Watson, Jerry Douglas, Mike Auldridge, Tom Waits, Ronda Vincent, Paul Beard, Nick Anthony, Demetrios Kakavas, David LaFleur, Mike Munford, Roy Lee, Terrence Brown, Akira Otsuka, Doc Scantlin, Holly Eaton, Dwayne Allman, George Davis, Merle Travis, Lesley Riddle, Sam McGee, Bascom Lunsford, Roscoe Holcomb, Andy Leftwich, Ricky Scaggs, Rob Ikes, Jim Hughart, Hazel Dickens, Earl Taylor, Roni Stoneman, Peter Rowan, Vassar Clements, David Grisman, Roy Smeck, Sam Butler, Jimmie Davis, Irene Scruggs, Joel Mabus, Cliff Perry and Katie Bliss, Walt Koken, Del McCoury and family, Tony Rice, and of Course my Parents.
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Sounds Like: Robert Johnson, Charlie Patton, Leadbelly, John Lee Hooker, Blind Willie Davis, Son House, Tampa Red, Skip James, Rural, Piedmont, Old Time, bluegrass, and Folk. Slide Guitar, Traditional Resonator Round Neck and Square neck Blues.
Record Label: unsigned
Type of Label: None

My Blog

join the Eteam , get a free download www.scottcbrooks.com

Anyone who signs up for the member and eteam at www.scottcbrooks.com can get a free download from the debut album, On Tin and Raw! This is a special promotional offer to end at the end of march!
Posted by Scott C. Brooks on Wed, 20 Feb 2008 10:46:00 PST

On Tin and Raw on the Web

Scott C. Brooks' Debut Solo Album, On Tin and Raw is this week availiable on iTunes worldwide, Napster, Emusic, and from Amazon MP3 for download. It has been a long road with this work. Another projec...
Posted by Scott C. Brooks on Sun, 17 Feb 2008 08:20:00 PST

Raw Eggs and Whiskey

I 've started on the sophmore album project Raw Eggs and Whiskey. this album will have 15 tracks, and for most of the album I'll be singing. The album is slated to have only four intrumentals and that...
Posted by Scott C. Brooks on Fri, 25 Jan 2008 10:34:00 PST

New Art work

I just got done with the first of a new series of art involving my two favorites things. This is very different from the absracts I've done in the past. I've been taking lessons from my wife, and it h...
Posted by Scott C. Brooks on Fri, 25 Jan 2008 10:30:00 PST

New songs for DOWNLOAD

We Haved just uploaded many new songs for the snocap registry, be sure to check them out, or as well, you can get all the the tracks for the new album "On Tin and Raw" at the Website, www.scottcbrooks...
Posted by Scott C. Brooks on Mon, 06 Aug 2007 10:08:00 PST