Scotty McCreery
For those of us who
follow you on Instagram,
we are also now following
the adventures of your
dog Moose! What’s it like
being a parent to Moose?
Oh we love him. He’s on the
road with us this weekend.
We’re up in Atlantic City
right now so he’s here with
us and loving life. It’s a new
responsibility for me and
Gabi, but we’re loving it.
He’s really great, besides
him eating everything in
sight, TV remotes and all of
that, but it’s all good.
Switching gears to
your latest single, “In
Between”, you wrote that with Jonathan
Singleton, a songwriter we like to watch.
How did y’all link up and what’s it like
collaborating and jamming with him?
Jonathan is one of the big time writers in
Nashville. And so for me linking up with
him the first time, I think my producer Frank
Roberts - who’s also been around for years
and years - just kind of put us together,
and we sat down and just talking about
life and kind of where I was at. And one of
us, it might have been Jonathan, said man
you’re just not one thing totally you’re just in
between. So that’s just the song we wrote.
But yeah, me and him just wrote again last
month together. He’s a guy I definitely try
and just be a sponge around and just soak
10
up how he writes because he’s one of the big
dogs in Nashville for sure.
What do you enjoy about performing?
It’s just an immediate rush that you don’t
get kind of anywhere else. Songwriting and
stuff is something that you write a song and
it might be five years before that song gets
out there or even longer sometimes. So you
get on stage, you get to sing a song, you
get to hear them sing it back to you holding
their hands in the air, lights from the camera
phone in the sky, I mean it’s just a feeling
you don’t really get anywhere else. So I love
it, and I’m definitely looking forward to
getting down to JSU and see what they’re all
about at concerts as well.
With your career beginning so early,
after your success on American Idol, do
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