Multi-platinum country star Scotty McCreery today releases the soundtrack to your summer with his star-studded EP, Scooter & Friends. Produced by Frank Rogers, the project brings McCreery together with some legendary friends including Hootie & the Blowfish, Lee Brice, and one of McCreery’s greatest musical idols, R&B legend Charlie Wilson.
“Back home everyone calls me ‘Scooter,’ so since I’m singing with a few of my favorite artists, I decided to call this project Scooter & Friends,” said McCreery. “It’s a fun collection of songs that are a little different from what I normally sing, yet they are still me. If the fans like it, maybe there will be a second volume in a few years.”
Please find a streaming link for Scooter & Friends here for review purposes
Scooter & Friends Track List:
“Bottle Rockets” feat. Hootie & the Blowfish
(Scotty McCreery, Brent Anderson, Derek George, Jeremy Bussey, Monty Criswell, Frank Rogers, Bobby Hamrick, Darius Rucker, Mark Bryan, Dean Felber, Jim Sonefeld)
“Swim Up Bar”
(Scotty McCreery, Brent Anderson, Derek George, Monty Criswell, Frank Rogers)
“Once Upon a Bottle of Wine” feat. Charlie Wilson
(Scotty McCreery, Brent Anderson, Derek George, Jeremy Bussey, Frank Rogers)
“Whiskey Said” feat. Lee Brice
(Scotty McCreery, Brent Anderson, Derek George, Jeremy Bussey, Frank Rogers)
“Holding Down the Honky Tonk”
(Scotty McCreery, Brent Anderson, Derek George, Jeremy Bussey, Frank Rogers)
The EP includes current single “Bottle Rockets” featuring Hootie & the Blowfish, which quickly became a fan favourite upon release. The nostalgia-inducing track was the top track added to Country radio at impact and is continuing to run up the charts, and is currently in the top #10 on the UK Country Radio Airplay Chart.
Scooter & Friends also features the recently released track “Once Upon a Bottle of Wine” alongside Charlie Wilson for an unexpected sound that many fans haven’t heard from the ACM Award winner. Written by McCreery, Brent Anderson, Derek George, Jeremy Bussey, and Frank Rogers, the song was a dream come true for McCreery who has long admired Wilson.
ABOUT SCOTTY McCREERY:
Scotty McCreery has been a household name for nearly half his life, ever since making history in 2011 as both the first country artist and the youngest male artist of any genre to debut his first studio album, the Platinum-certified Clear as Day, at No. 1 on the all-genre Billboard Top 200 Albums chart. The 31-year-old has sold more than 4 million albums and achieved 6 No.1 hits: the recent “Cab in a Solo,” the RIAA Platinum-certified “Damn Strait,” the RIAA Gold certified “You Time,” the RIAA Gold certified “In Between,” the RIAA Platinum certified “This is It,” and the RIAA Triple Platinum certified “Five More Minutes.” His most recent album is Rise & Fall.
The North Carolina native has earned one Triple Platinum, five Platinum and four Gold singles; one Platinum and two Gold albums; won the 10th season of “American Idol” in 2011 at age 17; was named the ACM New Artist of the Year in 2011; won two CMT Music Awards, the first for Breakthrough Video of the Year (“The Trouble with Girls”) in 2012, and the second for Digital-First Performance of the Year (‘It Matters to Her’ from “CMT Stages”) in 2024; and BMI Awards for writing One of the Top 50 Country Songs of the Year six times (in 2015 for ‘See You Tonight’, in 2018 for “Five More Minutes,” in 2019 for “This is It,” in 2021 for “In Between,” in 2022 for “You Time,” and in 2024 for “It Matters to Her”). He was awarded Pandora Billionaire status in 2021 in recognition of his music achieving more than one billion streams on Pandora. His song “Five More Minutes” inspired two popular holiday movies which aired on the Hallmark Movies & Mysteries Network: “Five More Minutes” in 2021 and “Five More Minutes: Moments Like These” in 2022. He released his first book Go Big or Go Home: The Journey Toward the Dream in 2016. McCreery was inducted into the North Carolina Music Hall of Fame in 2023. Last year, he was inducted into the Grand Ole Opry by Josh Turner and Randy Travis, after being invited by Garth Brooks. The singer/songwriter married his high school sweetheart Gabi in 2018. The couple had their first son Avery in October 2022 and are expecting their second child in 2025.