{"id":7171,"date":"2016-02-28T07:00:47","date_gmt":"2016-02-28T13:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/countrymusic\/?p=7171"},"modified":"2016-02-22T13:14:54","modified_gmt":"2016-02-22T19:14:54","slug":"scotty-mccreery-tries-to-keep-it-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/countrymusic\/2016\/02\/28\/scotty-mccreery-tries-to-keep-it-country\/","title":{"rendered":"Scotty McCreery Tries to Keep It Country!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/countrymusic\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2016\/02\/1401x788-452026894.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-7172\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-7172 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/countrymusic\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2016\/02\/1401x788-452026894-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/countrymusic\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2016\/02\/1401x788-452026894-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/countrymusic\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2016\/02\/1401x788-452026894-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/countrymusic\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2016\/02\/1401x788-452026894-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/countrymusic\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2016\/02\/1401x788-452026894.jpg 1401w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cFirst and foremost, allow me to introduce myself, my name is Scotty McCreery\u2026and we are here for one reason and one reason only, and that\u2019s to sing you some country music\u201d, is how Scotty McCreery tends to start some of his shows. Even from the first few minutes of his performance, you\u2019re guaranteed to get some good \u2018ol country music.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"Scotty McCreery Intro and &quot;I Love You This Big&quot;\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/yUNk9Z-WisM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Scotty_McCreery\">Scotty McCreery<\/a>, 22, a country singer who is best known for winning a \u201ctiny little show\u201d (as he likes to call it) called American Idol. At 16, he <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=MkxXBow5v3I\">auditioned<\/a> <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0for the show with Josh Turner\u2019s \u201cYour Man\u201d and \u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">&#8220;Put some drive in your country&#8221; by Travis Tripp, and <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">because of his deep voice and lower register people were blown away. McCreery, went on to the show and eventually became season 10\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/American_Idol\">American Idol<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Although Scotty is a country singer, he is more of a \u201cnew country\/ kind of bro country\u201d kind of guy. His first album <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Clear_as_Day\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Clear as Day <\/span><\/i><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">has more of a \u201ctraditional country\u201d music with the banjos and the guitars as well as a pop sound, but the second album <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/See_You_Tonight\">See You Tonight<\/a>, <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">has pop\/rock elements. Each album does have a few distinct songs that prove he\u2019s a country singer. His first single, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ZVq8nEHCKd4\">I Love You This Big<\/a>\u201d, is country enough to be country, but also not too country that the average Top 40 listener wouldn\u2019t be able to enjoy. One of his favorite songs is \u201cCarolina Moon\u201d from his second album. He said that his focus on the third album is to have the same sound as this song, a more \u201ctraditional country sound\u201d. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/countrymusic\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2016\/02\/12767882_965068543546359_1847658702_o.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-7173\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-7173 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/countrymusic\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2016\/02\/12767882_965068543546359_1847658702_o-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"12767882_965068543546359_1847658702_o\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/countrymusic\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2016\/02\/12767882_965068543546359_1847658702_o-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/countrymusic\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2016\/02\/12767882_965068543546359_1847658702_o-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/countrymusic\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2016\/02\/12767882_965068543546359_1847658702_o.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a>At his shows he likes to explain that the producers would try to get him to sing songs that were out of the country music genre on Idol, but he would refuse because that is not who he was. He then asks the audience if it\u2019s okay if they keep it country for the rest of the night. Of course, a lot of the fans are country music fans so that makes them happy, and the rest of the fans are Scotty fans and let\u2019s be real for a second, they\u2019ll cheer for anything he says!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">It makes sense that he\u2019d want to keep it more traditional. I mean, he\u2019s been influenced by many country artists. He says that because of his sister he listed to artists like Backstreet boys, he was singing thing\u2019s like \u201cConway\u2019s Hello Darlin\u2019&#8230;and Elvis Presley too, lord have mercy!\u201d. Before starting his medley he likes to say that \u201cnowadays things have changed a little bit, and it\u2019s not a good thing or a bad thing because everything changes over time, but for me it does not change the fact that I, Scotty McCreery, have a love for country music. So with that said, I\u2019d like to sing you&#8230;and take you back.. and sing you some good old fashion country music\u201d. With his little spiel out of the way, he goes on and sings songs like \u201cMama Tried\u201d by <a href=\"http:\/\/merlehaggard.com\">Merle Haggard<\/a>, \u201cBlue Suede Shoes\u201d by <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Elvis_Presley\">Elvis Presley<\/a>, \u201cMountain Music\u201d by <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Alabama_(band)\">Alabama<\/a> or \u201cCheck Yes or No\u201d by<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/George_Strait\"> George Strait<\/a>. With every tour, he changes the songs in his medley. There\u2019s two things that remain true within this medley, he always plays an Elvis song because like he likes to say \u201cElvis was my duuuuuuude\u201d, and that he likes to reiterate that \u201cI am country!\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"Scotty McCreery New &quot;Old&quot; country medley\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fcjyXp5Nbo4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In case you\u2019re interested in hearing him impersonate Elvis Presley: <\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"Scotty McCreery: Elvis impersonation\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VKTpbPpqlrg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">And here\u2019s him covering two more classic country songs at the Grand Ole Opry just for the heck of it!<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cHello Darlin\u2019\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=rxc4njqmFEs<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cThe Dance\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=K9Hl-zk3Ztw<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cFirst and foremost, allow me to introduce myself, my name is Scotty McCreery\u2026and we are here for one reason and one reason only, and that\u2019s to sing you some country music\u201d, is how Scotty McCreery tends to start some of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/countrymusic\/2016\/02\/28\/scotty-mccreery-tries-to-keep-it-country\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":127,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[98,57,55,24,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog-post-3","category-bro-country","category-country-pop","category-country-rock","category-live-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/countrymusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/countrymusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/countrymusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/countrymusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/127"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/countrymusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7171"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/countrymusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7171\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7228,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/countrymusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7171\/revisions\/7228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/countrymusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/countrymusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/countrymusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}