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Winston Scott Bio: Winston Scott was born in Tupelo, Mississippi. He was raised just north of Tupelo in the small town of Blue Springs. While growing up, Winston found the love of music. Not through a radio. His parents didn’t have one. “After dinner, daddy would play the piano, guitar, and mama would accompany him on the tambourine… my love of music came from my parents. They were the radio.” Based on the way in which Winston grew up, it’s no surprise that he readily names his father as his biggest influence. “Daddy grew up about 10 miles from where Johnny Cash grew up. They picked cotton in the same fields.” Winston’s father lived in Nashville in the late 60’s and early 70’s. Where he was a talented songwriter and performer. Winston’s father was and still is a very talented songwriter and performer. Winston made the move to Nashville following in his father’s footsteps. He brought with him the lessons he learned from his father, as well as a wealth of musical knowledge from some of his other influences. Among those are classic country artists like Jim Reeves, Faron Young, Marty Robbins, Waylon Jennings, and Ray Price to the new legends like Alan Jackson and George Strait, Tracy Lawrence, Hank JR., and his biggest influence, Merle Haggard. “Merle Haggard is known as the ‘Common Poet.” There’s a great deal of “down-right realness portrayed in his songs… he had a lot to say and he wasn’t afraid to say it. I respect that about him.” From a young age, Winston was raised to be aware. To be aware of not only what was happening to him directly, but what was happening all around him. His songs reflect his acute awareness. They all tell a story. On the straight ahead country rocker Not Enough Dollars, Winston addresses the difficulties of a “hardworking man, trying to rise above.” This is something Winston has experienced first-hand. He is what he sings about… “ People in factories… I’ve been there. They want to hear something they can relate to.” And relate they do, especially to lyrics like “what a man is worth goes down the drain every day, gas goes up while his pay stays the same… born and raised to wear a blue collar… there’s not enough dollars, for these blue collars.” Or on the slightly more personal (yet universally appealing) It’s Been A Good Day, in which Winston sings about the simple pleasures of day to day living, being aware of these pleasures and not taking them for granted, “my old tractor’s running good as new, like when daddy bought it back in ’62.” In country music’s current state, the fans are not always getting what they want to hear on the radio or at the shows, except for artists like Alan Jackson, George Strait, Tracy Lawrence, Joe Nichols, Josh Turner, Jamey Johnson, Ashton Shepherd to name a few. “Country music fans are switching their ears and wallets toward different genres… Even to satellite radios for the classics… Fans of country music want to turn on their car stereo on their way to work and hear real stories again, but without the poppy, over-compressed sound that they’re currently getting. “I’m trying to take back country music and give it back” to the people that once loved it and still do love country music… “By the way, these are the hardworking people, the back-bone of America and they will buy music, country music… “And that’s what I intend to give ‘em.”