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Show #19 April 21, 2021

Opening/closing music: "Just A little Drum Along" Mitchell Walker http://www.didjetellus.com/music/

For this show's artwork: John talks about creating his painting Wildflowers

Today's Special Guest: SCOTT TUTT

(record producer, personal manager, and more)

Scott and I grew up in Doylestown, Pennsylvania, a town uniquely situated between New York and Philadelphia.
We both had a love for Music. After working together on a few local music concerts, both of us took our lives into the art and entertainment business.

Scott's interview takes us on his career journey including two selections from bluegrass artist BILLY WISE::
Lonesome and Mother's Only Sleeping

Reptile Records • P.O. Box 121213 • Nashville, TN 37212 • 615.331.7404

email: scott@reptilerecords.us, scotttuttmusic@gmail.com • web site: www.reptilerecords.us

Scott Tutt Biography:

Scott Tutt has always been able to see a trend in music approaching, and present it to the world in the form of artists and songs. He brought the first and biggest selling band to country music when he changed their name from Wild Country to Alabama and produced their first record. They would go on to become the ‘80’s Band of the Decade. This was to be the test for him, as no one in Nashville believed that a band in country music could be commercial and told him so. The rest is history for that supergroup and the doors that they opened. Next he sought challenge as president of Union Station Records, starting with an unknown singer/songwriter named Brice Henderson. He produced and managed the artist while developing him as a songwriter. Three country chart singles later, Brice earned a spot as one of Billboard's Top 10 New Country Artists. Texas newcomer, Peter Isaacson also netted three country chart singles on the label from Tutt's production. By then, country music was becoming more stagnant, and Scott felt the next trend would be music that walked the fence between country and rock music and appealed to both. So he started his own label, Reptile Records, combining newfound talent with established musical trendsetters. The combination of legendary guitar great Duane Eddy and rock guitarist Warner Hodges of Jason & the Scorchers with Susan Marshall proved to hail Reptile as the first Alternative Country Rock label, with music appealing to country and rock listeners. Jerry Dale McFadden, later with the Mavericks, received acclaim from a Top 30 Tutt produced LP in publications like USA Today, Washington Post, and CMJ among others. At the same time Tutt saw the potential of college radio and Nashville's alternative rock scene. He produced Kentucky alternative rock band Government Cheese who had the #60 Rock Album of the Year (#15 single) in CMJ, produced videos that garnered airplay on MTV, CMT, TNN, Much Music, and helped pave the way for college radio stations to pay royalties for radio airplay. The dusters, under Tutt's management and production were voted Nashville's Band of the Year, Roots Band of the Year, Blues Band of the Year, Bass Player of the Year, Guitarist of the Year, Song of the Year, all in the same year at the Nashville Music Awards. His booking strategy helped land the band a National sponsorship with Miller Genuine Draft including producing their National radio jingle entitled, "Tap Into The Cold”. Scott Tutt has been able to watch alternative country rock turn into the current trend of “roots music” with a host of radio stations and magazines devoting time to the format he saw happening years ago. Tutt’s productions of The Insta-Gators' charted in the 30's and Susan Marshall's "My Own Time" CD charted Top 20, as well as an impressive show of support at radio for the rock-a-billy CD of Justin Curtis, showed that a man who has been ahead of his time has given the world a chance to catch up. With the enormous success of the movie soundtrack, O Brother Where Art Thou” roots music became the new trend, and again Tutt was a leader. "For a while my friends thought I was crazy to put my time into this roots music, but now they see again. It's always a matter of timing and believing," said Tutt. His music publishing companies have scored 4 #1 singles, 5 #1 albums and over 100 songs recorded and he has worked with, and still does, some of Nashville’s finest songwriters. For several years Scott also taught a course in songwriting at the Nashville University School. He has also done consultation for record labels, TV shows, studios, music publishers, recording artists, musicians and songwriters.He has stacked up an impressive list of achievements in the years he's been in the music business. Scott has done enough different jobs in the industry (from record hop DJ, radio DJ, record store owner, concert promoter, top promotion man, publishing #1 records, producing everything from videos to demos to jingles to chart singles/albums, developing songwriters, managing, booking, sound, etc.) to put his experience to work for success. He has secured European record deals and tours, and has traveled with his artists overseas to promote American Roots Music. Tutt designed and built with his own hands a state-of-the-art recording studio, Cowboy Lizard Studio capable of doing the sessions that he produces and a video editing studio with filming equipment capable of turning out quality HD videos. With the addition of his own facility for recording his product, his way, Scott Tutt productions will continue at a greater pace to push the envelope of creativity. After the demise of the Gavin Report, Scott saw the need for a roots music chart and designed and developed the industry leading Internet site, RootsMusicReport.com, a series of charts and news information for roots music, compiling the radio and Internet airplay of roots music releases throughout the US, Canada, Europe, and Australia. Recently, Scott produced albums on Aussie/American country singer/songwriter John Damian whose first two singles from the album charted in the National Charts and received airplay worldwide on country artists Shelby Horner and Coaltrain, and country/roots artists Susan Marshall and Kelly Delaney. Again on the cutting edge of music trends in Nashville Pop music he produced the single “Surrender To The Beat”, album and music video on new Nashville Pop/R&B sensation, Johnnie Poole. He has already produced over 10 artists’ very first release that went on to chart in the National Charts. Continuing with roots music, his publishing company had a #1 bluegrass gospel single by Ralph Stanley II & the Clinch Mountain Boys, entitled “Beautiful Hills of Home”. The song was written by Billy & Joan Wise and was the #4 song of the year 2019. Scott also recorded three bluegrass albums on Billy Wise & Mountain Time and 2 singles from the recent release “Mothers Only Sleeping” & “Lonesome”, went #1 and “Mothers Only Sleeping” was the #10 song of the year for 2020. While Scott Tutt is always on the "cutting-edge" musically, his strength lies in business. He balances that with his ability to develop artists' sound, songs, and image to best present that talent, and has made that work many times over...sometimes working better than anyone could have expected!

Show #12 April 20, 2016
John discusses his painting "Torrey Pines"
	Guest: Gloria Maria Strassburger Author of Palm Trees In The Snow A story of a young girls solo exodus (Operation Peter Pan) from Cuba in 1961. www.palmtreesinthesnow.com
Featuring the music of Combo Libertad - Traditional Cuban Music, www.combolibertad.com