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Scott Sheriff is the go-to keys maestro for the excepetional Carrie Underwood. He is also a busy session / studio musician and arranger, and also has his own yacht rock band, amongst other projects. We talk about all of this and more in this episode.
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Discussion topics covered during the show (links will open in new tab):
Scott’s musical upbringing
The fascination of MTV and transcribing songs
Working for David Foster
Discussion of David Foster’s work
Attending Berklee College of Music
Working as an in-house demo recorder and arranger
Working with the band Allies
Bob Carlisle – Butterfly Kisses
Joining Steven Curtis Chapman
Scott playing live with Steven Curtis Chapman (1992)
Scott playing live with Steve Curtis Chapman (2002)
Joining Kenny Loggins as keyboard player and ending up MD
Scott playing live with Kenny Loggins
Joining Carrie Underwood
Scott playing with Carrie Underwood on the Howard Stern Show (2023)
Rehearsal process for a Carrie Underwood tour
Scott playing with Carrie Underwood on The Today Show (2023)
The similarities and differences with playing on TV
Approach to playing keys within a tightly scheduled / sequenced show
Scott’s Hammond and Roland-centric rig
Scott’s initial thoughts on the Roland V-Accordion
Scott’s Train Wreck story
Scott’s Twelve Against Nature Steely Dan tribute band
“The Second Arrangement”- Steely Dan’s lost (erased) Gaucho track – International Dan Collective
Scott’s band Yacht’s Landing
Scott live on Australian TV with Carrie Underwood
Tag a Keyboard Player: Dave Richardson and Jamie Hosmer (Santa Fe and the Fat City Horns) and the amazing Michael Whittaker
Desert Island Discs: A Trick of the Tail – Genesis, Jarreau – Al Jarreau, The Nightfly – Donald Fagen, An Evening With Silk Sonic – Silk Sonic, Mecca for Moderns – The Manhattan Transfer.
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