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Country music star Dylan Scott joins our host Sid Evans on Biscuits & Jam to talk all about his new album, 'Easy Does It.' Scott discusses his Louisiana upbringing, learning the value of hard work and music from his father, and his friendship with Morgan Wallen. Plus, hear about his grandmother's squirrel dumplings and how his wife always knows when a song is a keeper.
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00:00Dylan Scott, welcome to Biscuits and Jam.
00:02Good to be here. Thanks for having me.
00:05Where am I reaching you right now?
00:08I'm in Nashville right now.
00:10Okay, that's home base for you.
00:11It is. I've been here, shoot, man, 14 years now, which is crazy.
00:17Well, so you've been coming to Nashville.
00:19I saw somewhere that you've been coming to Nashville since you were 16 or something.
00:23Is that right?
00:23Yeah, so the first time I came to Nashville, I was 16 years old.
00:27So just a visit, you know.
00:29My dad lived here when he was in his 20s, and so he was showing me around.
00:33And I always knew I wanted to live here.
00:35So, yeah, my senior year of high school, I missed like a total of six weeks
00:40coming back and forth to Nashville, which I don't know how I graduated doing that,
00:44but we did.
00:46Well, it does have some gravitational pull, doesn't it?
00:49It does.
00:50You know, I mean, when I was a kid, like I didn't know anything about Nashville.
00:53I just knew my dad lived here, and the music scene was here, and that's what I wanted to do.
00:58And then once I first saw it, I was like, oh, this is the spot.
01:01This is for me.
01:03This is for me.
01:04This is where all the country music singers come and all their dreams come true, you know.
01:10So it's a great spot.
01:11And here you are.
01:13Although not for long, because I know you're probably about to head out on the road
01:17and do a bunch of shows, correct?
01:20Yeah, we've been doing a bunch of shows.
01:21We just wrapped up our Country Till I Die headline tour, which was awesome.
01:27Played some of the biggest venues that I've headlined so far in my career.
01:31And we've had a couple of weeks off now.
01:34CMA Fest is this week, and then after that, back to the grind through the summer.
01:38Well, it'll be a fun grind.
01:40I know that.
01:41And especially with the new album coming out, you've got a brand new record out.
01:49It's called Easy Does It, although I'm sure it probably wasn't that easy to make it happen.
01:56Nothing's easy.
01:57Nothing good in life is easy, you know.
02:00You've got to work for it.
02:01But, yeah, it was fun, you know.
02:05It was fun, obviously, making this album, my third album, Easy Does It.
02:10But, yeah, man, nothing in life that's worth, you know, pursuing is easy.
02:16You've got to work for it.
02:17Talk to me about the title.
02:18How did you come up with that, and, you know, what did you kind of want to say with that?
02:21Yeah, that's always a tough deal, wondering, hey, what are you going to name the album, you know.
02:26And Easy Does It just made sense this time, even though if you listen to Easy Does It, it's a breakup song, you know.
02:34But it has nothing to do with the actual song itself.
02:39It's more of just the title, Easy Does It, and just really where I'm at in life right now.
02:43You know, I've been with my wife since I was 15 years old, so the breakup part of that doesn't really make sense.
02:50But, you know, we've got three kids now, and I'm in my 30s, and I've been doing this a while, and just in that Easy Does It phase, you know.
02:59There was a time of life when it wasn't that way, and it was all on me.
03:05I did it myself.
03:06You know, I'd wake up stressed out about stuff that I couldn't control, out of my control.
03:11And I don't know, man, if it was the kids or just getting older or being with my wife and married for as long as we have now.
03:17I just one day woke up and said, hey, do what you can control and worry about that and let everything else fall in place.
03:24And when I did that, hey, man, no pun intended, but it's just been easy since, you know.
03:29That's great to see you at a stage in your career when, you know, you can enjoy some of the hard work that you've put in, enjoy the connection of the fans, you know.
03:39That's a tough thing to do, you know, as much as we go, you know, with the touring and with the kids doing, you know, baseball and gymnastics and whatever else we're doing,
03:50whether it's, you know, going to the grocery store or just playing in the backyard.
03:54And it's a tough thing to sit back and go, hey, look what we've done, because we're always like, what's next, what's next, what's next?
04:02And, you know, when you can finally sit back and go, hey, look what we've done so far, you know, and enjoy that.
04:08It's a pretty special thing.
04:10You mentioned meeting your wife, Blair, or I think y'all even met before high school, but y'all started dating at 15 or something.
04:24And this is back in, this is in Bastrop, Louisiana, correct?
04:27That's right.
04:28Yeah, we're both in the same town, met in seventh grade and never spoke a word to me.
04:32And this is, we went to a small school, like a really small school and never really talked to each other.
04:39Like not even a, hey, how you doing kind of deal until our sophomore year of high school when we started dating.
04:45And I look back now, I was like, man, what was I thinking?
04:48What was I thinking?
04:49Yeah.
04:51Well, you figured it out eventually.
04:53Yeah, no doubt.
04:54So talk to me about your hometown a little bit.
04:58And particularly, I'm curious about, you know, the house where you grew up and what did it kind of look and feel like when you drove down the driveway?
05:07Yeah.
05:07So it was a, it wasn't a very long driveway.
05:10I lived on a street where my grandparents lived across the pasture from I did.
05:14I had aunts and uncles that lived on my road, cousins, obviously.
05:18And so we kind of all grew up together, grew up in a small three bedroom home that my dad built himself for 40, for $40,000 back in 89 or 90.
05:30And, but you know what?
05:32It was, it was a great place.
05:33It was a great home.
05:34It was, it was homey and just had plenty of room to, man.
05:39We could hop on a four wheeler and ride all day and not see anybody or go out in the backyard or back in the woods.
05:45And we spent a lot of time back in the woods, just hanging out, building forts and exploring, you know, as kids doing what kids do.
05:53But it was an awesome place, man, out in the country, 20 minutes from, from anything, you know, any kind of restaurant or store or anything like that.
06:02So just a small country town way of living, I guess, you know.
06:09So this is in the northeastern part of Louisiana.
06:13It's pretty close to Arkansas, right?
06:17Yeah.
06:17I was like five, five minutes from the Arkansas line.
06:20Yeah.
06:20And Mississippi too, right?
06:22It's kind of in the corner.
06:23That's right.
06:24So probably like five minutes from Arkansas, 30 minutes from Mississippi.
06:27So does it feel like what most people think of as Louisiana?
06:34No.
06:34I mean, most people, I feel like when people think Louisiana, they think, you know, obviously down south, you know.
06:39Think of the coast.
06:40Yeah.
06:40They think of down south, the fishing, the bayou, all the Cajun food, which I mean, we had that.
06:48We had the bayous and whatnot, but it's nothing like down south.
06:51It's a, it's a whole different world down there in a good way.
06:54I loved it.
06:55But sometimes I wish it's like, man, I wish I would have grew up in south of Louisiana, you know.
06:59It's a whole different way of life.
07:00But I do love where I grew up and how I grew up.
07:03Yeah.
07:04I'm sure you have an appreciation for some of that food, though.
07:07Oh, yeah.
07:08I mean, we had it.
07:09Don't get me wrong.
07:09We had the food, but not like it is, not like it is just a few hours south.
07:14Yeah.
07:15Yeah.
07:15So you're surrounded by a lot of family, which sounds, which sounds great.
07:19Were you also, were you close with, with Blair's family as well?
07:26Yeah.
07:26I mean, once we started dating, obviously, you know, and I met her family, I mean, we were very close and still very close.
07:32You know, it's a small town.
07:34You know, we all grew up the same way.
07:37We all have the same beliefs, the same everything.
07:39And so, yeah, it's, it's pretty tight, pretty tight niche and, um, just good people, you know, and that's all you can really hope for is just being surrounded by good people.
07:49And that was, that was everybody in the town to this day.
07:51You know, I can, I can, I can go back today and everybody's just still just great people.
07:55Well, that's good that you weren't seen as a, as a kind of a black sheep or anything.
07:59Yeah.
07:59No, no.
08:00Town's too small for that.
08:02Yeah.
08:02Absolutely.
08:03Yeah.
08:03I had an older brother and sister that I learned what not to do from.
08:07So I, I kind of, I had a little, a better way of, uh, understanding what I needed to do to, to not, uh, be the black sheep.
08:16Yeah.
08:16Okay.
08:16Good.
08:17You learned some lessons.
08:18Absolutely.
08:19So Dylan, you're pretty close to the Mississippi river there.
08:23And I'm wondering if that, was that a place where you spent some time?
08:27I mean, you've talked a lot about, um, about hunting and fishing and how that's, uh, something that you, that you love.
08:35That's a part of your life and always has been, um, what was that, you know, did you, um, did you get over there and spend time near the river or, or, um, was, you know, was that, uh, um, part of your world?
08:49So, I mean, obviously we crossed the Mississippi river a lot as a kid and, you know, I can remember crossing the Mississippi river, looking at it going, man, it's amazing.
08:58I mean, it's, it's just a massive, massive river.
09:01Right.
09:01And so there's something special about it, um, especially for me and where I grew up, but I didn't really spend time over near the Mississippi river until I was older, older in life.
09:11You know, I've done some hunting over there and it's some really good hunting over on the Mississippi river, obviously.
09:17But, uh, as a kid, no, we didn't spend much time actually on the river.
09:21Um, but crossing the river when we did, it was just like, there's something special about it.
09:26Yeah.
09:27It's pretty, it's pretty majestic.
09:29It's also a little dangerous.
09:30So it's probably good that you weren't spending too much time there.
09:33Yeah.
09:34And that's the thing.
09:34Like, you know, you hear stories and it's like, man, it is a dangerous river.
09:38It's a dangerous river to be on.
09:39Even if you spent your whole life on the river, you know, it's, it's still dangerous.
09:43And, you know, we had such good hunting, uh, where, where I grew up, uh, you know, 30 minutes from the river that, Hey, we didn't really have to get over there on the river.
09:53And was this a lot of, was this duck hunting or, or deer or?
09:57It was both.
09:58Yeah.
09:58Duck hunting and deer hunting.
09:59You know, I grew up doing a lot of duck hunting and deer hunting when I was younger.
10:04Uh, these days I do more deer hunting than duck hunting.
10:08Just, you know, from where I live in Tennessee, there's, there is duck hunting around here, but it's nothing like what I grew up doing.
10:13And, um, but duck hunting is a lot of work, man.
10:16The older I get, it's like, golly, I don't know if I want to put in that much work.
10:20You know, I'd rather just take some hunting trips or hunt here around Tennessee and get the easy way out.
10:26Hauling decoys and dealing with boats and getting up, getting up early, getting up at four o'clock or something.
10:33And yeah, yeah, absolutely.
10:35Yeah.
10:35It's tough.
10:36So Dylan, you, you come from this really, this big family, um, and, um, your folks had some mouths to feed.
10:45Who, who was doing all the cooking in your family?
10:47My mom would do the cooking.
10:49Now she, she had her specialties because I mean, my mom will tell you, she'd tell you straight up,
10:54Hey, I ain't the best cook in the world, you know?
10:56Um, but, uh, she was, she, what she did cook was great.
11:00Like she, her deer steak, her fried deer steak and mashed potatoes.
11:04Hey, Hey, so good.
11:06But my grandmother, my grandmother who lived next to us, she was the cook and she, she was so good, man.
11:13And I mean, I remember her chicken and dumplings and every now and then check this out, squirrel dumplings.
11:19Really?
11:20Ever had it?
11:21No, I've had squirrel, but I've not had squirrel dumplings.
11:25So, so good.
11:26So good.
11:27But I can remember, man, she'd make these dumplings and these homemade biscuits and her cornbread.
11:34That's what she was known for was her cornbread, man.
11:36It was, I don't know what she did, but my uncle has all her cookbooks and recipes.
11:40And so he's actually, he texted me last week.
11:43He's like, I'm sending all this to you because I like to cook, you know?
11:46And I miss, I miss what she cooked.
11:48It's like, man, if I can get ahold of those, it'd be amazing.
11:52What was your grandmother's name?
11:53Her name was Marie.
11:54She's, she's still with us or no?
11:56She's not.
11:57She died a few years ago, but, uh, yeah.
12:00So I miss, I miss that cooking, man.
12:03Cause she cooked every day, every single day.
12:06Well, you got to take care of those cookbooks.
12:08That's for sure.
12:09No doubt.
12:09Yeah.
12:10I think they're sitting in a box in his garage.
12:12So I was like, send them to me.
12:14Yeah.
12:14Take care of those.
12:15Take care of those.
12:16What about a holiday celebration for y'all?
12:19Um, what did that look like?
12:20I mean, you know, did you have, you have a lot of folks there?
12:23Yeah.
12:23It was really just your traditional holidays.
12:26You know, um, a lot of family got together, um, had our traditional holiday meals, whatever
12:32it was, if it was Thanksgiving, obviously it's turkey and dressing.
12:35And then, you know, Christmas time, I felt like it was still dressing and maybe ham or, you
12:41know, all the stuff, the, the, the macaronis and, uh, uh, anything you could think of traditional
12:46holiday meals is what we had.
12:49You know, we never did anything really outside of that.
12:51Uh, everybody's like, Oh, what's your holiday tradition?
12:54I was like, really what you think of when you think of the holidays?
12:57That's what we did.
12:58You know, we all got together and, uh, spent time together and ate.
13:02That's, we did a bunch of eating.
13:04And you picked up a little bit of cooking skills from your family.
13:08I mean, do you have a, do you have a specialty?
13:10I don't know if I have a specialty.
13:11I just enjoy it.
13:12I don't know what it is about cooking.
13:14I just, it, it takes my mind off of, uh, everything else going on.
13:18And, um, you know, I love trying new recipes and trying new things, but I, I, I pretty much
13:25tend to stick to the grill, you know, uh, that's kind of what I do.
13:29I mean, whether it's steak or chicken, or, uh, I don't do anything too crazy, which, you
13:35know, I feel like I make a pretty good ribeye sandwich, uh, which, which I was, yeah, I was
13:41pretty, uh, I was pretty proud of that one.
13:43Just kind of one day, like, man, I'm like a ribeye sandwich and didn't, didn't look up
13:48a recipe or anything.
13:48I was like, let me see what I can do.
13:50And, uh, went and found some thinly sliced ribeyes and then sliced them up, obviously myself
13:56and out of the peppers and the seasonings and, uh, you know, do the, do the bread.
14:01I, I, I grill, I butter the bread, grill it on the actual grill itself, toast it.
14:06And then, man, it's, it's pretty good.
14:09Pretty good ribeye sandwich.
14:10That sounds good.
14:11It almost sounds kind of like a cheesesteak or something.
14:13It's very close, very close to a cheesesteak.
14:16Tastes a little bit different, but that one right there is one of those where I know I can
14:20make it and my buddies are over and if they eat it, I know for a fact, they're going to
14:24be like, dude, what is this?
14:26You know?
14:27So yeah, that's kind of my go-to.
14:30That's great.
14:31So, uh, Dylan, I want to talk music for a second and talk, talk about your dad.
14:35Um, your dad's a musician and so, uh, you, you know, you were kind of born into it, uh,
14:44to a degree and, and, uh, you've got a brother, um, who's a really talented, uh, guitar player.
14:51Um, so what are some things that your dad taught you early on about music that have
14:58kind of stayed with you?
14:59The biggest thing he taught me about music, in my opinion, is he told me it's not an overnight
15:04success, you know?
15:06And as a kid, I never understood that.
15:08I'm like, what do you mean, dad?
15:08I'm going to move to Nashville and get a record deal and we're going to hit the road and all
15:13the success is going to happen, you know?
15:15And, um, it doesn't quite work like that for everybody.
15:18Sometimes it does, you know, but that, that was probably the biggest life lesson he taught
15:23me about the music was it's not an overnight success.
15:26You got to work for it and you got to keep working for it even once you have success.
15:30But, um, I don't know, man, my dad, he, he just, I just grew up with it.
15:35Um, like you said, him living in Nashville and playing with the guys he used to play for.
15:40And then he gave it all up, moved back to Louisiana and married my mom and became a welder,
15:45you know, and I couldn't, I couldn't imagine how that would feel because he was living his
15:49dream.
15:49He was here in Nashville doing exactly what I'm doing.
15:51And then just, I said, Hey, I'm going to start a family and go do a regular job and
15:56work my way up in the construction field.
15:58But I just remember seeing pictures and videos of my dad on stage.
16:02And like, we played music in the house since I was a kid.
16:06He first taught me piano.
16:07And then when I was probably 12 years old, taught me guitar and, uh, he, he was a great
16:12teacher, man.
16:13Still is.
16:13I mean, he, he's one, he's the one that will tell you real quick, Hey, you're over singing
16:20or Hey, you're playing too hard or Hey, you need to play like this.
16:23And he's always been right, you know?
16:25And I feel like you need that.
16:26You don't, you don't need somebody who tells you you're great every single day.
16:30Cause how can you get better if you're told you're great?
16:32You know, we can all get better at something, but, um, he's, he's the one that pushed me
16:37not to do music.
16:40I wanted to do music.
16:41He never said, Hey, let's do music, but he knew what I wanted to do.
16:44And so he pushed me, pushed me in a way that, that made me better.
16:47Well, he must've recognized that you got some real talent and cause he knows what talent
16:52looks like.
16:54Um, so he probably saw that pretty early on.
16:57Yeah, he did.
16:58I mean, there's videos of myself when I was three, four years old.
17:02He's playing guitar and I'm singing.
17:03And I look back at those now and obviously I don't sing like I do now, but you can tell
17:08as a three, four year old, Hey, he's, he's holding a tune.
17:11Like he's holding the pitch right, you know?
17:14And so my dad noticed that early on and, uh, you know, with what he did and everything,
17:21obviously he was super proud of that.
17:22He's like, Oh, my boy can sing too, you know?
17:24So he was definitely all for it.
17:27And, but both my parents were never like, you know, you have some parents out there like,
17:31no son, or you're going to go to college and you're going to do this.
17:35Like they never told me what I was going to do or push me either way, whether college or
17:39music, it was just really whatever I wanted to do.
17:42And I respect that, you know, I think because, because of that, um, if they would have pushed
17:47me harder in music, who knows, man, maybe I wouldn't have done it, you know, but by,
17:51by letting me figure out who I was and what I wanted to do, obviously pushed me to, to do
17:58music, you know?
17:59So, uh, I'm grateful for that.
18:02I've heard you, uh, talk about your dad kind of teaching you about the value of, of hard
18:08work.
18:09Um, and, and I'm wondering if, you know, what did that look like in terms of, um, working
18:17for him or, you know, jobs that, that, that he would give you that kind of thing?
18:24I remember I was 14 going on 15 and obviously he's setting me up, you know, he's trying
18:31to, trying to set me up for life.
18:33And, uh, I remember him telling me, Hey, you're fixing to, fixing to be 16 for long and you're
18:38going to have a truck.
18:39And when you get a truck, there's, you got to pay for your gas.
18:42There's gas to buy.
18:42Yeah.
18:43That's right.
18:43And, you know, I come from a family where my, my parents didn't make a lot of money.
18:48Um, we weren't poor, but they made money, they made enough money for us to have what
18:54we needed and, and live a good life.
18:56But, you know, dad wasn't going to pay for the gas, you know?
19:00Uh, so I got up, he got my first job when I was 15 years old and I was cleaning boat
19:06carburetors at a Marine shop, you know?
19:08So I learned how to clean the boat carburetors and clean the shop up and mow, mow the yard out
19:13there and organize the boats where I was at.
19:16And so I remember having that first job and, you know, wasn't making a lot of money, but
19:20Hey, as a 15 year old kid, I had money, you know?
19:23And so I was paying for my gas and then wasn't long after that, I started dating my wife.
19:28And so, uh, yeah, I needed money to go out on dates.
19:31Pay for dates.
19:31Yeah, absolutely.
19:33So, you know, I mean, I always had what I needed between obviously mom and dad and then
19:38myself working from there.
19:40I mean, I've, I've, I've had plenty of, I've had a job since I was 15, you know, whether it
19:45was working at a gym or, uh, when I was 17, 18 during the summer, I was actually working
19:51in the construction field and, you know, the, the company he worked for, I went to work for
19:55them, uh, working in the shop, beveling pipe, uh, cleaning up around the shop every now and
20:00then got to go to like some paper mills and works what they call shutdowns, you know, uh,
20:05just to help her, just to help her out.
20:07But the worst part, the worst part of it was I spent a week on a jackhammer one day.
20:11And at first I was like, Oh, this is cool.
20:14I got a jackhammer, you know, we're, we're busting up concrete and stuff.
20:17And after a day and a half of that, my hands were so sore.
20:22And I was like, man, this is some work.
20:24These boys, they work.
20:26And I realized, I realized then, which I knew I wanted to do music or I knew I was going
20:30to go to Nashville, but I realized then, Hey, I'm going to go to Nashville and I'm going
20:34to sing.
20:34So I don't have to be on a jackhammer every day.
20:36All the time.
20:37I asked my dad a couple of months ago, cause my dad was, he was a phenomenal welder.
20:42I mean, he was very skillful and could, could build things.
20:46It's just like, man, how did you build that?
20:48And I asked him a couple of months ago, I said, dad, why don't you, as good of a welder
20:52as you are, why did you never teach me to weld?
20:54You know, I'd love to have that skillset even now.
20:57And, you know, you never know when it come in handy.
20:59Uh, he said, because I didn't want you to be a welder.
21:03I didn't want you to go through what I went through and all that stuff, you know?
21:07So I said, well, you know what?
21:08I respect that.
21:09That makes a lot of sense.
21:11Well, it sounds like, you know, he, uh, he instilled some, some good things in you.
21:17Um, and that, and some things that probably, um, help you navigate, uh, this crazy country
21:24music world and, and also, you know, the, the grind of it.
21:29And cause I know it is a grind.
21:31It is a grind.
21:32It really is.
21:33You know, so I'm thankful for dad and just teaching me the hard work aspect of life because,
21:39you know, people don't understand.
21:41They think it's all just glam and glory out here, you know, traveling around on a bus and
21:46go play a show.
21:47But, you know, yeah, there's may not be a lot of physical hard work, but there's a lot of,
21:53there's a lot of work.
21:54There's a lot of time spent away from your family.
21:56Um, just going here and going there and, um, it wears on you.
22:00It really does.
22:01And that's, you know, that's where my wife comes into play, man.
22:05She's, she's, she's the best.
22:07She's the rock that holds it all together.
22:08You know, she's, she's known since I was 15, we were 15, what I wanted to do.
22:13And so, you know, I've never had that, that situation or that moment where, you know, my
22:19wife's like, oh, why do you got to go this weekend?
22:21Why can't you just stay home with me and the kids or I really wish you wouldn't go.
22:26And I mean, I've missed birthday parties, you know, and she's always understood it.
22:31You know, she knows how this business works and, um, there's, there's upsides and there's
22:36downsides.
22:37And so the downside is, yeah, you do miss things.
22:40You do, you do miss a birthday party here and there, or you miss whatever.
22:44But the upside of that is, you know, there's a lot of things that I do get to, to be around
22:50or see that, you know, maybe a lot of dads out there that have to go to work at seven
22:56o'clock every day and get home at four o'clock and they're just so tired and they don't want
22:59to go do this.
23:00I mean, there is an upside to what I do as well.
23:02I do get to spend a lot of time with my kids.
23:05That's what it's all about.
23:06So, you know, if you can make that happen, that's great.
23:08I hear some themes, um, of what you're talking about and, and kind of this, the value of hard
23:15work, um, that I heard from, uh, Lainey Wilson.
23:19Um, I interviewed her, um, uh, I've interviewed her a couple of times and, um, but she, you
23:27know, talks about how that kind of prepared her for this pretty rigorous life on the road.
23:33And she grew up right down the road from you.
23:36Yeah.
23:37Not far at all.
23:37Yeah.
23:38I mean, like probably less than an hour.
23:40And I'm, I'm wondering if you've, you've connected with her, um, or if y'all have any kind of
23:44shared connections from that part of Louisiana.
23:47Yeah.
23:47We've known each other since we were like probably 14 or 15 years old.
23:51Really?
23:52Yeah.
23:53Just playing, you know, the same little festivals down in Louisiana, or we used to play this
23:58thing, um, at these little theaters with a house band.
24:03And so we would go out and she'd sing a couple of songs and I'd sing a couple of songs.
24:07So yeah, we spent a lot of time together as kids and you're right.
24:11I mean, growing up the same part of the country, she's the same way, you know, she had some
24:14hardworking parents and she grew up on a farm and grew up, you know, doing all that.
24:19And she's prepared for, for what she's doing as well.
24:22And she's, she's busting it right now.
24:24So, um, yeah, it's, it's really cool to see, uh, somebody that you've known for so long from
24:30the same part of the country having great success as well, you know?
24:34So we see each other out on the road here and there and, um, you know, it's, it's just
24:39like we were kids again, like, dang, can you believe we're doing this?
24:42Like what is happening?
24:43And that's great.
24:45Yeah.
24:45I mean, those, cause both those towns are not, not real big.
24:49I mean, you know, I don't know what's bigger.
24:51I mean, she, I think she told me that there was maybe one stoplight in her town.
24:55If that.
24:56Yeah.
24:56I mean, I know where she grew up and it's, uh, it's, it's super small, you know, it's,
25:01it's very small, like just, just like where I grew up, middle of nowhere, you know, you
25:05had to drive anywhere to get to a, to a Walmart or a shopping mall was like 45 minutes for
25:12us.
25:12So yeah, it's just, it was great.
25:15All right, Dylan, I want to do something, uh, kind of quick and it's something we call
25:19a jam session and, and I'm just going to ask you some rapid fire questions.
25:25Um, and you know, nothing complicated.
25:29I promise I've just got a few here.
25:31Are you ready?
25:31Yep.
25:32Let's do it.
25:32Okay.
25:33Biscuits or cornbread?
25:34Oh, that's a tough one, man.
25:36It depends on the time of day.
25:37Right.
25:38Um, I want to say cornbread, but I'm gonna be honest with you.
25:43It's gotta be a biscuit.
25:44I think it's got, I mean, it's a biscuit every time.
25:47Well, except your grandmother's cornbread was another thing, right?
25:50But she had great biscuits too.
25:52Okay.
25:52Yeah.
25:53That's what I'm saying.
25:54Like, that's a tough one.
25:55Okay.
25:56Gumbo or jambalaya?
25:57Jambalaya.
25:58All day.
25:59Acoustic or electric?
26:00Acoustic.
26:00I've seen you some great acoustic stuff of yours recently.
26:04I love that.
26:05Um, Nashville or New Orleans?
26:07Ooh, got to pick Nashville.
26:09Yeah.
26:10Hometown.
26:10It's where my heart's at.
26:12The dish I'm known for making at home is blank.
26:15My dish is going to be the ribeye sandwich.
26:18So good.
26:19Okay.
26:20Yeah.
26:20We covered that one.
26:21Um, I never go into the woods without blank.
26:24Oh, I never go into the woods without a flashlight and a pocket knife and a gun.
26:35Never know.
26:36You just never know.
26:37You never know.
26:38All right.
26:38One of my all-time favorite road trip songs is blank.
26:42Oh, my all-time favorite road trip song.
26:45I just go old school country, probably some Keith Whitley.
26:49It drives my wife nuts.
26:51She's more of like, she's a rock girl.
26:53She likes her 80s rock and I can't stand it, but I have to have my classic country.
26:58Okay.
26:58Well, give me one song.
27:00Oh, Miami, Miami, Keith Whitley.
27:03Ten Feet Away, Keith Whitley.
27:05Come on.
27:06All that.
27:07Great.
27:07All right.
27:08When I have a Saturday at home, I love to relax by blank.
27:11When I have a Saturday at home, I just love to honestly hang out with my kids, jump on
27:17the trampoline, like to do a lot of cooking, maybe go to Home Depot.
27:23Older I get, man, Home Depot or Lowe's, I like it a lot.
27:26And buy some stuff you don't need, probably.
27:29Every time.
27:29Spend way too much money.
27:32All right.
27:32Just two more.
27:33I'd love to sing a duet with blank.
27:35Tim McGraw.
27:36I'd love to do it with Tim McGraw.
27:38Oh, yeah.
27:39Yeah.
27:39He's a Northeast Louisiana boy too.
27:41That's right.
27:41That's right.
27:43The best dog I ever had was named blank.
27:45Brody.
27:46He was a German short-haired pointer.
27:48He was the best dog, man.
27:49And was this when you were a kid?
27:51No, actually, we got this dog after we got married.
27:54Oh, okay.
27:55Yeah.
27:56Great dog.
27:57That's great.
27:58All right.
27:59That's it.
27:59That's it.
28:00All right.
28:00So, Dylan, I want to talk a little bit more about your new record.
28:02The first song on the record is called What He'll Never Have.
28:09Correct.
28:10And it already has, I think, millions of streams.
28:15It's found an audience.
28:16It's resonated with people.
28:18And it's a little bit of a dark one in a way because it kind of imagines your wife's life
28:24after you cash in your chips.
28:27But talk to me about what was on your mind with this one.
28:30Yeah.
28:31I mean, just, it kind of came out of nowhere.
28:34But, I mean, at the same time, it's stuff that I always think about, you know.
28:38As bad as you don't want to think about that, it's like, you know, what if something happens?
28:42What if I leave this world younger than what I'm intended to or what I want to, you know?
28:49It's like, what about my family, you know?
28:51And so I thought about that and was like, I hope there's somebody out there who can, you
28:56know, help raise my kids or make my wife happy.
29:01They can have all my stuff.
29:03I don't care what they have, you know, all the worldly stuff.
29:06But what they'll never have is the love I have for my wife or have for my kids.
29:10And so I remember writing this song just thinking it's another song, nothing crazy about it.
29:15And I was riding around with my wife and then I wasn't playing this song.
29:19I was just playing music in general.
29:21And I turned this one on and she's like, what is this?
29:24I said, oh, I wrote this a few weeks ago.
29:26She goes, I love it.
29:27I said, you love it?
29:29She goes, this might be my favorite song you've ever wrote.
29:32Wow, really?
29:32And I'm like, yeah, it kind of took me back a little bit because it's like, babe, I've
29:36written My Girl and Nobody and Can't Have Mine, like all these love songs that how I feel
29:42about you.
29:43And here I am, a song about me dying.
29:46And if I die, then I hope somebody else takes care of you.
29:49She's like, yeah, but like, how sweet.
29:52Like, what woman wouldn't want to hear that?
29:54And I'm like, you know what?
29:55And so by her saying that pushed me to really, you know, record it and release it.
30:00And I'm glad I did because it's on track to be the biggest song in my career right now.
30:05So she's got a real ear for your music and kind of knows a good one when she hears it.
30:11Yeah, I bounce a lot of my music off of her because once again, she doesn't blow smoke.
30:17She tells me like it is.
30:18She'll tell me real quick, I don't really like this song, you know, or, oh, I love this
30:23song.
30:23And so that's what you want.
30:25You know, if somebody tells you every song's great, well, every song's not great.
30:29You know, it's just the way life is.
30:31You can't write a great song every time.
30:33So when she tells me something's great, I take it to heart.
30:36You know, it's like, OK, well, if she says it's good, then maybe everybody else will think
30:40it's good.
30:41But if she tells me it's bad, it's like, all right, well, if it's bad, it's bad.
30:44Well, that's awfully nice to have that, you know, in the house.
30:49Absolutely.
30:49Yeah, that's great.
30:51I want to ask you about another one.
30:52Um, and, uh, it goes back to your, to your hometown.
30:56It's called This Town's Been Too Good to Us, which is kind of a tribute to Bastrop, right?
31:02Yeah.
31:02Yeah, for sure.
31:03It's about my town.
31:05What made you want to write this one at, and particularly at this point in your career?
31:11Yeah.
31:12I mean, at this point in my career, I mean, I look back and I look at the success we've
31:16had and where I come from and how we grew up.
31:19And it's like, man, how did we get here?
31:21You know, how did we get to this moment?
31:23And there's a lot of variables to it.
31:25There's a lot of, there's a lot of reasons why we got to this moment right now, but I
31:29go back to day one and day one, it was, it was my town.
31:32It was the people in my town and the support they gave me along the way.
31:36And I don't know, man, I love a good town song in general.
31:40This is, This Town's Been Too Good to Us is probably one of the, my favorite songs I've
31:44ever written and released, um, just because of that, you know, because of the way I grew
31:48up and where I grew up and the people.
31:50And, um, it was just one of those, one of those songs I knew I had to do and, uh, I wanted
31:56to do and, uh, just very proud of the way it turned out.
32:00Went back and shot the music video in my hometown, uh, with a lot of places in the town where
32:05I grew up.
32:06Like there's a scene in it that's, we, I called the people that's living in my wife's house
32:11that she grew up in now.
32:13I said, Hey, can I shoot a scene in your front yard?
32:15Because so much happened there.
32:17You know, um, there's a scene at a ballpark there where we used to sneak into them and
32:21play football at, you know, we'd turn the lights on and, you know, nobody ever messed
32:25with us.
32:26I always thought like, man, we're going to, we're going to turn these lights on one day
32:29and the cops are going to come by and shut us down.
32:31But they never did.
32:32You know, it was just, it was just a cool place.
32:34That's great.
32:35Well, they, they must love that song back in, in Bastrop, I'm sure.
32:39Oh yeah, no doubt.
32:40There's a, there's a billboard when you, when you come into town right now that they put
32:45up that they said they'll never take down.
32:47We'll see what they do.
32:48But obviously it says, you know, welcome to the home of Dylan Scott.
32:51But the picture is a picture from the music video where I'm sitting on top of the courthouse
32:57staring out across the town with the water tower in the back.
33:00And yeah, man, it's just cool to see.
33:02It's just cool to see that, you know, that they care, you know, they're like, oh, that's
33:07our boy.
33:08He grew up here.
33:09I saw that, um, that Morgan Wallen was a writer on I OU One.
33:15I OU One, yeah.
33:16Which is the last song on the record.
33:18Um, have you gotten to know Morgan well in recent years or do y'all have a strong connection?
33:24Yeah, I mean, I knew Morgan, uh, pretty well, you know, back when we were both coming up
33:30and doing our thing.
33:31And, uh, obviously, man, he's had crazy success.
33:36Uh, and, and with that comes, you know, crazy, crazy moments of people pulling you here and
33:41pulling you there.
33:42So, um, you know, obviously if I see him out, we say, you say, Hey, but, um, yeah, he's,
33:49he's, he's a busy dude and he's doing his thing, but I knew him very well, obviously back when
33:54we were both kids grinding, doing the thing, trying to have the same outcome.
33:58Early days in Nashville.
33:59Yeah.
34:00You know how it is.
34:00Yeah.
34:01Yeah.
34:01So good dude.
34:03That's great.
34:03I wanted to ask you about Keith Whitley.
34:05Um, you know, you've talked a lot about, about Keith Whitley being a musical hero of yours.
34:12And you, you mentioned him earlier.
34:14Um, you love his music.
34:16There's something about it that really resonates with you.
34:21Um, and you know, he is someone who, whose career was cut short.
34:27Um, I mean, he died tragically and I think it was 1989.
34:31Um, um, from, I believe it was alcohol poisoning or, um, and I'm wondering if there are aspects
34:41of, of his story that have made an impression on you beyond his music.
34:48Um, or is it really just kind of his voice and his songs that, that, you know, have stuck
34:53with you?
34:53Yeah.
34:54I mean, as a kid, it was his voice, right?
34:56It was, it was the tone of his voice.
34:58Um, even before I was listening to lyrics, you know, it was really just the voice and
35:03the melody, you know, how great of a singer he was.
35:06And I remember sitting on the edge of my bed, learning guitar as a kid, playing his music,
35:12man, just closing my eyes and imagining myself in Nashville on a tour bus out tour and doing
35:18the thing.
35:18So he was a huge inspiration to me.
35:21I mean, he was the guy, yeah, I just, I wanted to be like Keith Whitley.
35:25I mean, that was just all it was to it.
35:27And then the, you know, obviously the older I get and start listening to the lyrics of
35:31his music and then learning his story and hearing other stories about him that I've heard along
35:35the way.
35:35I mean, just respect it, man.
35:37He's, he was just, you know, he was just like us, just a regular old guy out grinding,
35:43doing his thing, super talented.
35:45And, um, it's, uh, it's a tragic story, you know, a story you'd, you hate to hear, but,
35:52um, I often wonder, I was like, man, I wonder what, I wonder what music would be like if he
35:57was still, if he's still around, he was still, he came through the nineties and the early two
36:01thousands.
36:02I wonder what country music would be like, you know, I wonder what, where his music would
36:06have went, you know, cause it's always evolving, you know, he would have evolved with it.
36:10And, uh, it would have been interesting to see.
36:13There seems to be a pretty, um, serious fan base that he has.
36:18And, and even in recent years, there's been, you know, people who've done tributes to him.
36:24And, and I think Dierks Bentley is in that crowd and some others that, um, that really,
36:30uh, don't want his music to, to be forgotten.
36:34I don't think it will, man.
36:35He was so good.
36:36And like I said, his melodies were so good.
36:38And I still, every night I will sing, uh, I change it up.
36:44I may sing one song or I may sing three songs of his at my live show, but I do sing when
36:51you say nothing at all, every single night.
36:53And it's so wild.
36:55There could be, there could be somebody in the crowd that's in their seventies, or there
37:01could be somebody in the crowd who's literally a teenager and they're singing it.
37:05And so that speaks something, you know, like you said, died in 1989 and here we are in 2025
37:11and his music is still around and still doing what it's doing and having an impact on people.
37:16I mean, that right there, that says a lot about not only who he was, but what he even
37:22could have been, you know, even, I mean, he, he probably, I, in my eyes, he was the best
37:27to ever do it, but, um, uh, there's no doubt he would have been the best that ever done
37:32it if he was still around.
37:33Yeah.
37:34Yeah.
37:34That's something to think.
37:35I mean, that's, that's 36 years ago.
37:37He died.
37:38Yeah.
37:39Before I was born.
37:40Yeah.
37:41You know?
37:41Well, so Dylan, you've got, uh, you've got, I think three kids.
37:45Is that right?
37:46That's right.
37:46Yeah.
37:46You see any musical talent in that group?
37:48That's going to keep the family business going?
37:52Uh, I see the talent for sure.
37:55Um, my boy, he's seven, my little girl's five and we have a, uh, a one and a half year
38:00old little boy as well.
38:01But, um, my oldest, my oldest boy, he can sing kind of like my dad saw in me.
38:07He's like, okay, he can sing.
38:09I know he can sing.
38:10I don't know how good he's going to be, but I know he can sing.
38:12Um, he can keep rhythm.
38:14He's very interested in it.
38:15My little girl, she sings.
38:17I can hear it in her.
38:19She's still a little young.
38:21Uh, who knows how that's going to turn out.
38:23But, you know, kind of like my parents were with me, I'm not going to push them either
38:27way.
38:28If they want to do music, Hey, we'll do it.
38:30And I'll teach you everything I can teach you along the way.
38:33And, you know, I can, I'll tell you up front, Hey, it's a hard, it's a hard job to do.
38:38You know, it's, it's a lot of, uh, a lot of things you got to give up in life to do
38:42this job, but that that's with any job.
38:45But, you know, my, like my parents, I'm not going to push them either way, whatever they
38:49want to do.
38:49If they want to keep it going, great.
38:51Let's do it.
38:52If not, Hey, whatever you want to do, I'm behind you.
38:55Yeah.
38:55Well, it sounds like they, they've got some tools.
38:58They do have the tools.
38:59They do have the tools.
39:00We'll see what happens.
39:02All right.
39:02Well, Dylan, I just have one more question for you.
39:04What does it mean to you to be Southern?
39:07To be Southern?
39:08Well, I don't know any other way of life than Southern, but what it means to me is, um, it's
39:15family, it's God, it's a, it's a way of life that, uh, I think it's a little slower, which
39:23I like, I like a little slower, a little slower pace of life every now and then.
39:27But, um, like I said, I don't know any other way than Southern.
39:31You know, it's where I grew up in the South, Northeast Louisiana, um, it's the way I'm
39:38raising my kids and, you know, it's, uh, it means everything.
39:42It's just the way of life.
39:43I know.
39:44Do you get back to Bastrop ever?
39:46I do a couple of times a year.
39:48Yeah.
39:48We'll go down there and see family, uh, just with my lifestyle and how busy we are.
39:52You know, it's tough.
39:54It's hard.
39:54I'm sure.
39:55Yeah.
39:55You know, but, but I do love getting down there and it's talking about being slower, you know?
40:00I mean, I try to live my life slower right now, but when I look at it, it's like, it's
40:04pretty, it's pretty fast paced.
40:05But when I'm down there, it's like, it's a breath of fresh air, man.
40:09It's like, Hey, what are we going to do?
40:10There's nothing to do.
40:11So we just hang out and chill out and just take it day by day.
40:16Well, Dylan, congrats on the new album.
40:19It's called Easy Does It.
40:20And, uh, I hope it continues to be fairly easy.
40:24And, uh, thanks so much for being on Biscuits and Jam.
40:27Yeah, man.
40:28Thanks for having me.
40:29I appreciate it.
40:30I appreciate it.
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