{"id":1351927,"date":"2018-08-29T16:40:57","date_gmt":"2018-08-29T20:40:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fnpsites.net\/playlist\/?p=1351927"},"modified":"2018-08-29T16:40:57","modified_gmt":"2018-08-29T20:40:57","slug":"scotty-mccreerys-world-is-looking-good","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fnpsites.net\/playlist\/2018\/08\/29\/scotty-mccreerys-world-is-looking-good\/","title":{"rendered":"Scotty McCreery&#8217;s world is looking good"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1170\" height=\"658\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4JSd4KfG1vo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Scotty McCreery knows what it\u2019s like to be on top of the world. He also knows what\u2019s like to be knocked off it.<\/p>\n<p>The Season 10 \u201cAmerican Idol\u201d winner was riding a wave of newfound celebrity and fans. His first album, \u201cClear as Day,\u201d debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard Top 200 that year and reached the top on five separate Billboard charts. He had won multiple music awards, toured with Brad Paisley, released his sophomore album, \u201cSee You Tonight,\u201d which also debuted at No. 1, his holiday album debuted at No. 1 as well, he headlined his own tours, and he was doing everything right with his fan base who call themselves \u201cThe McCreerians.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>So when his record label dropped him in 2016, McCreery said he \u201cwas blindsided.\u201d That was the low point. And it brought out the fighter in him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou just have to play the cards you\u2019re dealt,\u201d he said in a recent phone interview during a tour stop in West Virginia.<\/p>\n<p>Passionate about his music career, McCreery was embroiled in a lengthy legal battle while he searched for a new label and, with the help of his management team, took a big risk, releasing a song on his own.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMost sane people would have said to wait,\u201d he says, \u201cbut my management and I really believed\u201d in the song \u2014 \u201cFive More Minutes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On the first day of its release, it was ranked No. 2 on the iTunes country singles chart and No. 9 on the iTunes all-genre singles chart.<\/p>\n<p>That got the attention of Triple Tigers Records\/Sony Music Entertainment, which signed McCreery. \u201cFive More Minutes,\u201d which has gone platinum, is the lead single from his third album, \u201cSeasons of Change,\u201d which debuted on the Billboard Country Albums Chart in September 2017.<\/p>\n<p>McCreery will perform on the grandstand stage at 7:30 p.m. Sept. 20 at The Great Frederick Fair. Tickets are $25 for grandstand annex, $48 for grandstand and $53 for track seating.<\/p>\n<p>The new album also includes the romantic \u201cThis Is It,\u201d a song written as a love song for his then-fiancee Gabi Dugal. McCreery wrote the song with Frank Rogers and Aaron Eshuis just a few weeks before he proposed to Gabi. The couple wed in June 2018 on a mountaintop in North Carolina and the music video features the couple the days before and during the wedding.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[The director] never asked us to do anything special. He was just in the background filming the day,\u201d McCreery said. \u201cIt turned out exactly how I hoped it would.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>McCreery, who will be 25 in October, co-wrote all 11 tracks on the latest album, working with some of Nashville\u2019s best songwriters, including Frank Rogers, who also produced it. McCreery said Rogers was the perfect producer for him because he understood how to make McCreery\u2019s little-bit-old country and little-bit-new country work.<\/p>\n<p>The songs, he said, are very personal and were inspired by his wife Gabi. The title track was the first song he wrote for the album.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s the perfect song to show where I\u2019m at in life &#8230; it\u2019s all good again,\u201d he said. \u201cI have to just pretend that 2016 didn\u2019t happen. It was not fun for me, but you gotta learn from it, stay persistent and work hard and good things will come.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>From Elvis to Scotty<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>McCreery said he started singing in church when he was 5, and he was a mega Elvis fan. In fact, he still is.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cElvis was all I listened to in my childhood,\u201d he said, and he used to include an Elvis cover in his shows, but not anymore. Conway Twitty and Ronnie Milsap were also musical influences.<\/p>\n<p>He admits he had a lot to learn about being an entertainer and he learned a lot about that while touring with Brad Paisley, Rascal Flatts and others.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI know a little bit more than I did when I started,\u201d he said. \u201cYou have to learn how to entertain.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>During and after \u201cIdol,\u201d his life went from \u201c0 to 100\u201d and he just \u201cwent with the flow day-by-day, step-by-step,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>He dived into songwriting, working with \u201cnew people who were just starting to work their way up and with experienced songwriters.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was like a sponge soaking it all up and to kind of find my place,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Life is busy, he said, with being on the road about 150 days a year and with a new wife, there\u2019s little time for his other passion \u2014 golf. But, he admits, \u201cit\u2019s awesome\u201d being married.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s definitely an adjustment,\u201d he said. \u201cI used to live with a bunch of guys in a little rented house. So much nicer coming home to Gabi.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>McCreery and some family members recently competed on \u201cCelebrity Family Feud,\u201d winning $25,000 for St. Jude Children\u2019s Research Hospital. He will likely be remembered for his answers to two questions: \u201cName something you immediately saw and said, \u2018I\u2019ll take it.\u2019\u201d His answer: \u201cFried chicken.\u201d And \u201cName something you think of when you hear the word \u2018Boo.\u2019\u201d His answer: \u201cYah.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Booyah!<\/p>\n<p>McCreery will be part of the line-up at the Nashville Songwriters Awards at Ryman Auditorium on Sept. 19, along with Blake Shelton, Chris Janson, Bill Anderson, LANCO and others. He kicks off his \u201cSeasons Change Tour,\u201d with Jimmie Allen and Heather Morgan, on Nov. 29 in Dallas.<\/p>\n<p>At the GFF, McCreery said his set will include songs from his new album and his hits (\u201cThe Trouble with Girls,\u201d \u201cSee You Tonight\u201d and \u201cWater Tower Town,\u201d among others).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scotty McCreery knows what it\u2019s like to be on top of the world. He also knows what\u2019s like to be knocked off it. 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