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Box , Nashville, TN But few of those fans know about the man behind the music.

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As a songwriter and an instrumentalist, Darrell Scott has been a force behind some of country music's biggest hits and most critically acclaimed recordings of the s and early s. His songs have been recorded more than 70 times by other artists, including such well-known names as the Dixie Chicks and Garth Brooks. Now I've decided it's time to quit peeking from behind that curtain and pull it on back.

Scott was born on August 6, , in London, Kentucky. London is situated in Kentucky's coal-mining region, which Scott would write about in one of his most highly regarded songs, "You'll Never Leave Harlan Alive," recorded by country superstars Brad Paisley and Patty Loveless, as well as by Scott himself. Scott's father, whom Scott described to Virginia's Roanoke Times as "a rough-edged mountain man," farmed tobacco and played country music on the side.

The family moved north to Gary, Indiana, east of Chicago, joining thousands of other rural Southerners in search of work in the steel mills.

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Scott started out playing in a band led by his father, getting a taste of the wandering musician's life when the band traveled to Alaska to perform for oil pipeline workers. He set out on his own at 16, playing in bars around Southern California, and then made his way to Canada to soak up songwriting lessons from the scene that had produced Gordon Lightfoot and Joni Mitchell.

A multi-instrumentalist by this time, he backed the veteran Canadian country band the Mercey Brothers on steel guitar and contributed songs to the group's repertoire. After getting a musical education on the road, Scott followed it up with classroom schooling. He moved to Boston, another place with a strong songwriting reputation, and enrolled in a community college and later at Tufts University, where he studied poetry with Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Philip Levine.

Continuing to write songs, he appeared at clubs and cafes in the Boston area, and by had settled into a weekly trio gig at the Warren Tavern in nearby Charlestown.