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Scotty McCreery joins Katie Neal for this week's 'Katie & Company'!
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00:00how are you i'm good i'm good how are you katie i'm doing really good i was just talking to
00:05brody about the last time we saw you and i was laughing because it was when we were audio
00:09productions and kane brown was giving you a rolex oh yeah no kidding that was an unexpected little
00:15gift yeah crazy i'm sure i'm sure that it was is that up there with like top touring gifts that
00:22you've probably received yeah i think that's number one i've gotten some some uh some alcohol
00:28and i've gotten like a scooter but a rolex was definitely number one who got you a scooter
00:34uh rascal flat yeah it was a cool scooter it was i was gonna say is this like what like an electric
00:41scooter like a moped like what is this yeah it was electric electric thing so it got me around there
00:46for a while so yeah oh my gosh that's hilarious well how are you how's b how's avery we're good
00:52thank you yeah everything's uh great uh i just went over to switzerland for a few shows and
00:58i was just praying that baby didn't come while i was overseas can you share the story behind the
01:04name that you guys have chosen yeah so um we really we didn't look at any list or or anything
01:11with avery's name it just kind of happened like it just fell into our lap and we're like oh that's
01:15perfect so we were hoping hoping that it would happen that way for this one we weren't coming up
01:20with anything and then uh could be was doing a bible study and uh came across a name in one of the bible
01:25verses she was reading that she really loved and i was i was all about it and uh so yeah that's how
01:31we landed on the name this time around i feel like something biblical is always classic it's timeless
01:36like it's always a good call if you are stuck yeah absolutely absolutely our uh avery somehow or another
01:43he he thought we were going to name the kid bo and in north carolina bojangles was a big deal and
01:49the dessert biscuit there is called boberry and so he's just in his head the kid's name is going to be
01:55boberry mccrary like that is that is the name apparently oh my gosh he's going to be so
02:01disappointed by that is he excited about having a little brother yeah you know matter of fact today
02:07we were out and about he got avery got a haircut today and it was like a gift shop next door like
02:11you can go pick out a gift for your brother and he was so excited walked in there and he picked out
02:16like everything in the store like okay pick pick one but uh yeah he just kept saying this is for
02:21boberry this is for boberry so oh my god that is too cute what did you think when you found out that
02:27it was going to be another boy i was pumped you know i think we both thought it was going to be a
02:32girl because could be the the early part of her pregnancy felt completely different than how she
02:36felt with avery so we're like oh it's got to be a girl but i guess that's not exactly a tell
02:41and uh it's another boy and i i'm you know i was the only boy left on the mccrary side and my whole
02:48family was like you gotta you know carry on and so now all my crazy uncles are are happy with me i
02:53guess so i know my family was the same way my brother was like the last boy with a family name
02:58and then he had twin boys so thank god that worked out we got two which is fantastic and i was actually
03:05laughing because i don't know are you close with dylan marlowe at all uh i know i'm i'm not super
03:09close but i was gonna say they're having twins oh wow wow wow wow that's got to be like crazy news
03:15like the moment you find that out you know right i know that everybody always talks about there's a
03:19moment where you go in for like your first initial sonogram and you're like please don't be too
03:23you know whatever happens we would have been thrilled but uh yeah it was uh it was it's all
03:30been all been good so far so yeah i was laughing because it was a few weeks ago now but you posted
03:34something about you were singing a song to avery from dora and he was like is that your song dad
03:40and i thought that was really cool because i realized he's probably starting to realize what
03:44you do for a living now which has got to be kind of wild yeah he loves it you know uh i used to never
03:51listen to my music in the truck and now i have to because it's all he wants to listen to so
03:56it's very sweet and you know he gets to come on the road probably one weekend a month at least
04:02could be and he like if we're going on the road he's not wearing anything but his boots like
04:07no tennis shoes no crocs like if we're going on the road i'm wearing my overalls and my boots we're
04:11going to a country show and and uh he's come on stage a few times and just loves it and fans bring
04:17them gifts like it they've really accepted you know that it's just been so cool and sweet to watch
04:22as a daddy that he wants to be a part of everything so yeah that's amazing i feel like the next phase of
04:27this then is then him realizing that not everybody's dad is scotty mccurray like not
04:32everybody's dad is on stage every weekend yeah i guess so i don't he i think he wants to be part of
04:37the family business though he just earlier today we were uh i got a new christmas song in and i got
04:43the mix back and he made all of us he gave mom uh a guitar he gave me a guitar every took the drums
04:49and he wanted moose to our dog to play the harmonica but moose was not having it so
04:54but the family band that's what he wants a little performer we love that so much well talk about you
05:00recorded a new christmas song yeah i don't even know if i'm supposed to say that but we'll double
05:05check um but yeah you know i love christmas music i grew up with christmas music always playing in the
05:11house for me like the elvis christmas record was my favorite so um yeah i think little by little you
05:19know nowadays everybody just wants more music and more of this i'm like let's go do a christmas song we
05:23were in the studio already so made sense is it traditional or an original uh this one's
05:28traditional last year put out an original and this year we're gonna have a traditional so yeah it's i
05:33always feel for anybody trying to like write an original christmas song because it's like the
05:36pressure is the stakes are so high yeah it's like it's either gonna be a classic or it's just gonna
05:42kind of fall in the cracks there but no i really did love we had a song called feel like the holidays
05:46we put out last year and it's it's a vibe it's a new song that feels classic so hopefully yeah
05:52which is that that's where the secret sauce is in writing a christmas song is writing one that's
05:56new but feels like you've known it your whole life well let's talk about bottle rockets climbing up
06:01the charts right now can you share the story behind this song yeah so we went up to the mountains to
06:07write for my new ep called scooter and friends and um i brought my best writing buddies along and i told
06:13them you know we've written so many songs together but i said you know whatever you think a scott
06:19mcgrary song is throw that out the window and this ep is an off cycle thing summer thing we're
06:24gonna try new sounds try new things and so uh one of the rights you know we were just talking about
06:29you know summer soundtracks and and old memories on the beach and um i got to talking about how you
06:35know for us in the carolinas like hooting the blowfish are royalty so that's what we were listening
06:40to and we had this chorus for bottle rockets kind of already going and and my producer frank
06:45rogers just kind of started strumming in to hold my hand and i was like wait a second like what
06:51i think that kind of works and uh so that was like the light bulb moment and we were so excited to
06:57ride it we had no clue if darius and you know the hooting the blowfish guys would would love it or want
07:03to get on it but uh we were very excited when we when we wrote it talk about the process of because
07:08sometimes it's different of asking someone to work on a collab or in this case like an interpolation
07:13type thing how did did your team reach out to darius and hooty or linda blowfish or like did
07:18you text him how did that go yeah so i texted him and frank texted him and and we're you know frank
07:24and darius they worked together a long time and they're from south carolina and they invited me
07:28into their fantasy football league a few years ago so we're all you know good golfing buddies football
07:33buddies and so i hit him up and said man i don't know if you're going to like this at all but you know
07:37we were thinking of y'all when we wrote this and want to get your thoughts and he just wrote back oh my
07:42god dude like i love this this is an absolute smash so he said but i gotta send to the rest of
07:47the guys and you know again it's like for me i was nervous to ask because this song's got to be one
07:52of their babies you know it was their first single factory review the one that kind of started it for
07:56them so but they were they loved it and and they were like we want to get in the studio and re-record
08:02and and so it just all kind of snowballed from there but i was nervous but super excited that it
08:07worked out yeah and like what a compliment to to you and to the song that they were willing to like
08:12say yes but also go back into the studio and re-record the parts yeah i think everybody thought
08:18that we just kind of pulled hold my hand from the record you know and sampled it but it was not a
08:23sample like they all went back in the studio re-recorded everything darius went back in re-recorded
08:28his lead parts like it's and if you listen to it there's some different flavors that they that
08:33they put on it you know that's not on the original record that just works for bottle rockets so it's
08:38pretty cool that's amazing and then go back to this fantasy football league that you're in
08:42with darius yeah i know they talk a lot of smack about him because he's traditionally not a really
08:46good fantasy player but he's not no really not but he did just beat me this week so i can't talk
08:53too much smack but what is your fantasy football team name um i think i'm the raleigh rascals
08:59so and they all get me crap about it but you know what the rascals that work so i've been second
09:05place now three years almost for like needs to be the uh the i don't know figure something out but
09:12close is there is this like a fantasy football league for money or is there some type of like
09:16really embarrassing thing you have to do if you're the loser not really an embarrassing thing there's a
09:21little cash for sure and this and then if you lose lose like if you come in last place we all go on
09:27a trip and do like a nice dinner for the draft and the whole bill is on the loser like last place so
09:33that's alcohol and that's the meals and it's at least 15 to 20 people that'll show up so it's uh
09:39nobody wants to be last nobody wants to be last okay so are you and darius darius the only country
09:45music artists that are in this group uh jimmy westbrook from little big town is in it as well
09:49oh my gosh this is hysterical i love the idea of you guys
09:53a lot of doubt yeah it's a lot of back and forth too it's we we take this thing seriously
09:58yeah no totally you this summer released you mentioned this your ep scooter and friends in
10:04july and you said that you kind of like threw out whatever you think a scotty mccurray song is
10:08let's try something new do you feel like that now is influencing like what will be the next project
10:14potentially yeah i don't want to say no but because i had so much fun doing this but i mean
10:20the heart of hearts like what i love to do is kind of bring some of that traditional country
10:25music into the new school and mesh them together like that is me in a nutshell so um i mean if you
10:31go and listen to this project we got like a spanish influence song with trumpets and i've got an r&b
10:36song with one of my musical heroes charlie wilson like this is not your typical music that you'll hear
10:42from me so but i mean you know try something new and i really enjoyed it so maybe we'll have a couple of
10:48you know songs that sound like a scooter and friends song on the next album awesome what else
10:54can you say about the next project like how far along are you is it still kind of taking shape
10:58oh shoot i haven't even started getting in like but you know for me i've been on uh we toured so
11:06heavy early on this year because i knew i was pretty much taking off most of the back half of the year for
11:10babies so we've been on the road go go go and uh and now it's like you know i'm up in the attic
11:16pulling down baby bottles and we're getting the nursery ready so um at the turn of next year i
11:22will get back guitar in hand and start writing songs and um see where we end up yeah and then
11:28you mentioned you're awful up this fall but also this fall you have your co-headlining tour
11:31with dustin lynch what are you looking forward to about that yeah we start up in november so that's
11:36exciting and i've always been such a fan of dustin's and uh the music he's got i mean he's he's in
11:42the hit making business you know all he does is put out hit after hit after hit so um we were both
11:47going to tour this fall anyways and we're like man why don't we just go out together and i'll
11:50bring all my stuff you bring all your stuff and let's make it one big show and so i don't think
11:55either of us have done this kind of tour before uh but it's going to be fun and we're going to try
12:00it out and hopefully the fans come out and have a little unique experience so how does this work
12:05with co-headlining i remember talking to like little big town of miranda lambert about this because
12:08you kind of switch off who takes the later shift every night right yeah so exactly so it's i mean
12:14i'm not exactly sure how we're going to be getting into it until we get the rehearsals and stuff but
12:19uh yeah you know taking different leads here and there and and you know that maybe having a couple
12:26collabs where we're both on stage at the same time and um either way no matter what we end up on it's
12:30just going to be a good time just fun and so laid back and he's going to play you know his whole set
12:36of hits and i'm going to come in there and play our songs and it's it'll be be a good time it is
12:41going to be a very fun tour and because we are like in that transitional time of going from into fall
12:47which is now like i'm sure you're seeing like stores are putting out christmas stuff earlier
12:50and earlier are you more fall person or christmas person you know i all of a sudden yesterday like
12:56avery woke up and he was he wanted to play frank sinatra's jingle bells on the record player and he
13:01wanted to dance and then um my family was texting about our christmas plans this year and i got the
13:07christmas song mix back all on the same day so it feels like we just skipped fall in our family as
13:12of yesterday but uh fall is personally my favorite time of year man it's just so special it's it's not
13:20too hot it ain't too cold there's leaves following a little breeze the grills are out there's football on
13:25the tv i mean what is what's not to love i know and i feel like especially in north carolina you
13:29probably get like the perfect fall uh you know i'm hoping it it stays around sometimes it's a quick
13:36fall but i mean technically you know we're not i guess no we are in fall but uh yeah it's been a
13:43good uh good fall so far weather-wise so hopefully it sticks around that's awesome and i know that you
13:48said you've been doing a lot of you know getting stuff out of the attic setting up for the baby
13:51have you and gabi been binging anything in your downtime if you have any right now what do we uh
13:58we started watching the netflix show called untamed untamed i haven't seen that yeah really
14:03good we're out in the yosemite um uh what else it's not a whole lot i think that's like the one
14:12show i mean for me i'm just binging football right now so that that's uh you wait all year for it it's
14:17like no i have to sit on this couch all day like i i've been waiting months for this moment so yeah
14:21exactly and then i'm not sure if you've seen or not but kenny chesney is going to be releasing
14:25his memoir like a month after you're on the show with us and i'm curious is a memoir anything you've
14:30ever thought like maybe at some point in time you'll do yeah i hope so you know back in 2016
14:35i wrote a travel log is what i like to call it and uh just about my experience up to up till then
14:41i started so young and um you know idle back when i was 16 and uh just like met all these crazy folks
14:47and was on all these tours and i just wanted to kind of write it down real quick but um that was like
14:53i feel like everything career-wise has happened for me after that book so it's like i'm looking
14:59forward to years down the road you know sitting down in a rocking chair and and typing out or
15:03working on a i i think i'd like even if it's just for my family i mean you know hopefully we could put
15:08it out there in the public but um i've had a few friends who's like grandparents just wrote down kind
15:13of a book for them about their life and stuff which i i think that kind of thing would be cool
15:17yeah for sure and then with halloween being about a month after this will air has avery declared what
15:23he would like to be for halloween this year yeah i think we are going this year with a cars theme so
15:30um lightning mcqueen tow mater uh like all the sally like all the cars so that's his movie right now
15:38and uh you know we did a show with brad paisley not too long ago and brad's like all over that
15:43soundtrack you know his guitar parts and his songs and there was one scene um where brad had a song
15:49called thunder hollow breakdown like where the school bus miss fritter this is cars three i know
15:54this movie's way too well now but like this all avery wants to listen to and in the truck right now
15:59is miss fritter's song and it is like screaming guitar and drums and he wants to hear it at like
16:046 30 in the morning like brad man my son is very disappointed you didn't play thunder hollow
16:09breakdown at the show tonight but um maybe next time i'm honestly i feel pretty positive that brad
16:15would probably play that just for avery backstage yeah if i would have run into him beforehand yeah
16:20i would have requested it but maybe next time that's awesome and then the week after you were on we
16:25actually have jordan davis on the show have you spent much time with jordan at all a little bit you
16:29know not a whole lot but we just did some shows together when i had all my boys out my college
16:33friends for our our golf tournament and uh you know jordan came by to hang out he was such a cool hang
16:39all my boys ran into him and they were like oh i just met jordan he's the coolest dude ever so
16:43and he's a louisiana guy and i married into a lsu family they are all from down there so
16:49um most of the time when when i chat with jordan we're just talking lsu football or something like
16:53that for sure that's so fun that you do that with your college friends is that something you do every
16:57year you do like golf and they all come to a show oh yeah if you see this trophy that's the state
17:01cup behind me and twice a year we uh we do the state cup and now we've all got kids and
17:07families and it used to be so easy to schedule and now it's like the hardest thing in the world to
17:13put this thing on most of the time it just goes around my tour schedule and all the guys pile on
17:17the bus but uh yeah we're doing it after halloween actually this this next one coming up so what a
17:23fun tradition i love that yeah you obviously have done well because you currently have the trophy
17:28well yeah i still think we're losing we we've done 20 state cups i think i think the score is 11 to
17:33nine so uh we we my team has nine so we have some some making up to do but uh it's a lot of fun
17:41eight guys we all went to college together the state cup wow that's awesome scotty thank you so much
17:46for the time today so happy for you to see the song doing well and congratulations on baby i hopefully
17:51gabi has a very easy delivery and you know baby number two cakewalk yeah prayers uh well avery was
17:57such a great kiddo that i'm like scared to death that this next is gonna be a terror but we will uh
18:02i know that second kid man oh it's exciting so thank you very much yes thank you for the time
18:07today good to see you as always
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