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“INTRODUCING: SCOTTY McCREERY”
BEHIND THE SCENES OF THE MAKING OF COUNTRY MUSIC’S NEWEST IDOL
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NASHVILLE, TENN (September 28, 2011) – “Hearing Ryan Seacrest say your name, I don’t know if there’s a word to describe that feeling,” says “American Idol” winner Scotty McCreery in
Introducing: Scotty McCreery. “
It’s definitely a big change going from a normal teenager to the biggest show on television.” Premiering
Monday,October 3, 9:00 p.m./Eastern on
Great American Country (GAC), the special features interviews with those closest to country music’s rising star: his parents, high school music teacher, baseball coach, guitar teacher and church choir conductor and includes never-before-seen-photographs and video footage from throughout his childhood in Garner, North Carolina.
Musical since birth, McCreery’s mother noticed her son’s musical abilities at a young age. “At the end of his one-year check up I told the doctor Scotty could sing,” Judy McCreery recalls. “I looked him in the eye and hummed a verse to him and he hummed it back to the doctor.” He sang in a church group beginning at age three and started guitar lessons at age nine. “Scotty had a natural knack,” said former guitar teacher Gary Epperson. “He had rhythm in his right hand, something you rarely see in a nine year old.” School choir and musical theater productions followed and at one point McCreery had to choose between his two loves, music and baseball. School play rehearsals interfered with baseball practice and although he was a valued member of the team, he chose play practice over baseball practice. “I remember at the time telling him I hoped he was a better singer than he was a baseball player,” said his former baseball coach, Derik Goffena, smiling at the thought. “He was very competitive and very well composed on the mound.”
In the summer of 2010 and with his parents’ support, McCreery went to Milwaukee for an “American Idol” cattle call audition. “I remember vividly walking around the Bradley Center and Scotty looked at me and said, ‘Dad, I’m so in over my head,’” said Mike McCreery. “I looked at him and just said, ‘Do your best and we’ll see what happens,’ and that’s how it all began.” As McCreery continued to move through the competition, his entire hometown was behind him, staging city-wide viewing parties. “I always believed in myself and knew that I could sing, but it’s cool to see Americans respond to you,” McCreery said.
When it got down to the final two contestants, McCreery remained calm and collected while his mom reacted differently. “I was a nervous wreck and knew the finale was going to be 10 times the stress,” she said. “I didn’t know what to expect but knew that if he won, our lives would be changed forever and we’d have to get ready for the new normal.”
That new normal includes touring, national media attention and radio airplay. And high school classes. “Winning “American Idol” comes with a lot of perks,” McCreery said. “You win name recognition that people fight for. I feel like I still need to pay my dues, still need to work hard and show them that I deserve to be there.”
Introducing: Scotty McCreery premieres the night before his debut album –
Clear As Day – is released October 4.
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