.DylanScottCntry salutes his idol KeithWhitley on upcoming EP
, so those songs are the ones that I wore out over and over and over again. It was hard to narrow it down because I wanted to keep going and do more and more, but these are my favorites.”
, who was married to Whitley at the time of his death. Their son, Jesse Keith Whitley, contributes background vocals on “I’m Over You.”’s band, introduced his young son to a wealth of traditional country music during Scott’s childhood in Bastrop, La., but it was Whitley that left the strongest impression. “The first thing was the tone of his voice. That really hooked me,” Scott says of the singer/songwriter, who died in 1989 from alcohol poisoning at 33.
Scott also enlisted his father to play guitar on the EP. “My dad is my biggest cheerleader,” says Scott, who scored the No. 1 hit “My Girl” from his self-titled 2016 debut album. “He was beside himself because that’s where it started for me -- me and my dad playing guitar to old Keith Whitley songs.”
Morgan shared with him her memory of the day Whitley wrote the song, sitting at the kitchen table in his boxer shorts as his daughter watched cartoons and Morgan cooked dinner. “He pressed record with his toe on a recorder and just sang that song down. They had to clean up some of the noise of cartoons playing in the background and whatnot. It’s just one of the coolest stories I’ve heard in my life.”because the song “Between an Old Memory and Me” was pivotal in his career.
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