RHYTHM ROUNDTABLE //
SCOTT WILLIAMSON
WITH ALEX MACDOUGALL
Scott Williamson is a recording drummer and and pans from the time I was three or four Sullivan Show, February 9, 1964. The next day
producer who has been leaving his fingerprint years old. My Dad was a Los Angeles studio in school that’s all everyone was talking about.
on the Nashville music scene since 1990. A musician. I remember watching one of his Everything changed.
much-abbreviated credit listing includes work rehearsals and asking the drummer if I could for Blake Shelton, Brooks & Dunn, Michael play his kit. That was the first time I played real [WM] What was the first kit that you dreamed
W. Smith, D.C. Talk, Point of Grace, FFH, Jaci drums, and I was probably seven. My Dad of owning?
Velasquez, and countless Nashville songwriters. wanted me to be a trumpet player. But I think
[WM] What was the moment when you first
his drummer friends convinced him that I was [Scott] A Yamaha Recording Series kit.
doomed to be a drummer. Several of my early heroes played Yamaha.
knew that you wanted to become a drummer?
[Scott Williamson] I was beating on pots
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My first drums were early 1970’s Sonors (red
[Alex MacDougall] Like a lot of others, it sparkle). My parents bought that kit for me
was seeing Ringo and the Beatles on The Ed when I was nine. During my freshman year of
December 2019
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