Darrell Scott became one of the more successful country songwriters of the late '90s and early 2000s, placing songs with the biggest names in country music, including major chart hits. Garth Brooks, the Chicks, Tim McGraw, Faith Hill, and many others recorded his work. At the same time, he consistently worked as a studio musician and released a series of his own solo albums.
The son of musician Wayne Scott, James Darrell Scott was born August 6, 1959, on a tobacco farm in London, Kentucky, and moved as a child to East Gary, Indiana. He was playing professionally by his teens ...