October 23, 2025 • 7 mins
Scotty talks about a lot of what's going on with him right now and there is a lot! LISTEN to Steve & Gina's chat with Scotty McCreery.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You.
Speaker 2 (00:00):
Number one for new Country Cat one O three point
seven is Steve Engina in the Morning, Steve Lundy, Gina Melton,
and we are pleased to have with us this morning
a gentleman who's going to be performing a cat Country
coming up in December, along with Dustin Lynch. Mister Scotty McCreery. Hey, Scotty,
good morning, Hey, good morning.
Speaker 1 (00:15):
How you doing.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
Hey, We're doing fantastic. It's great to catch up with
you again. First I should say congratulations on another number.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
One song that's pretty great with.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
Bottle Rockets, with Hooting and the Blowfish their first ever
number one. They should be kissing your boots, Scottie.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
Oh, I don't know if it is that it might
be the other way around, but I do appreciate it.
It was a really fun song to sing all sumber
long for sure.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
Well, the day we debuted it here on Cat one
O three point seven, we also were following you on
social media and saw you listening to it for the
first time in your car. That had to be a kick.
Speaker 1 (00:52):
Yeah, that's always like the best thing, Like first time
you hear your song on the radio, you're just like
come home, like especially, I don't know I just grew
up listening to radio, so never gets old. You know,
it's always kind of a pinch me moment.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
Well that's where people hear your songs, and congratulations. I
think it's fantastics great song. As a matter of fact,
we're going to play it in just a couple of
minutes here on KATLINO three point seven.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
Love the news about baby Oliver. How's it going with
a newborn? And then Avery's a toddler? How's that treating
these days?
Speaker 1 (01:20):
Yeah, it's been great. I mean it's an organized chaos
over here, you know, running on just a little bit asleep.
But you know, Oliver is doing great, and give me
he's crushing it as a mom of two. And Avery's
he's been a great big brother. He loves Oliver so much.
The big thing for us is, hey, you have to
be gentle with the baby. Getting a little brother meant
(01:44):
that he could play tackle football with him, like immediately, right,
Gotta work on that.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
But I just think about how your career has changed,
just with your phases in life. I'm in as a
young single man with a lot of TV exposure, and
then he get married and then you have a child.
Now you have two children. I mean, logistically, how have
things changed for you as far as your focus?
Speaker 1 (02:07):
Yeah, you know, I think it's just just going through
life every step of the way. It's like all of us,
you know, and finding that work life balance and you know,
but for me starting out so young, you know, that's
one thing I've enjoyed about going back to listen to
my old music. You know, you kind of grow up
with me, you know, you get to know me as
a teenager and my first album, and now it's kind
(02:27):
of what I'm doing now. It's you know, dad of
too and writing the songs. Your perspective changes to live
a little life. So that's that country music. You know,
it's it's real life.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
Stuff, trying for a little truth or deren Scottie, has
there ever been a time where she just gotten to
the point where in the house it's chaos and you
tell me, hey, I got to go do some work.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
Uh, you know, I try to help out as much
as I can. So she's right here listening.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
So that's funny. I noticed just a little pause answered that.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
I think she's interested in that question too.
Speaker 3 (03:07):
That's funny.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
That's funny.
Speaker 3 (03:09):
Now you've said rise and Fall is your favorite album yet,
and it is a great album. What makes this one
feel kind of special to you?
Speaker 1 (03:17):
Yeah, I mean I think your latest one's always going
to be most special. But I do think for me,
you know, just what I was writing about, you know,
and like we were just talking about, it went from
me just being a kid singing songs of like to
like writing songs about my family and my faith and
like the things that are truly important to me. So
(03:37):
I think what I was writing about, and then how
we wrote it, you know, I took all my writing
buddies to the mountains of North Carolina and we quite
literally sat around the fire with guitars and wrote songs.
You know. It felt like the old days. So to me,
it's just both of those things is what made this
record so special.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
And I for one appreciate what you stand for, Scottie,
I really do, And I think this is it's oh cool.
You were inducted into the Grand Ole Opry last year
by two of my favorites, Josh Turner and my musical
hero Randy Travis, and then he sang three wooden crosses.
That had to be a surreal night for you.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
It's surreal. It's the right word. I mean, it was
just a special night. I've always always said my biggest
bugget list thing or what's on the top of my
you know, Mount Nevers the country music would be to
join the Grand Ole Opry. So yeah, having Josh there
who was a hero of mine, and Randy as well,
and then I mean Garth was the guy that asked
(04:32):
me to join a couple of decembers ago, So it
was again just to pinch me, like, can you believe
this is really happening kind of moment for me.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
So that's very really special, and that's a membership that
can never take away from me. That's that's that's pretty amazing.
Talking with Scott and mccrury here on kat one O
three point seven, I thought.
Speaker 3 (04:50):
That was this was so cute that you mentioned that
one day you're going to tell Avery that this was
your dream and it came true. I mean, I think
you're setting such a wonderful example for your kids that
you know, if you believe it and it's a dream,
it really can come true.
Speaker 1 (05:05):
Absolutely. It's yeah, I thought I ever thought it would
be was a dream that seeing it come true and
you know, hopefully you know, like you said, the kids
can grow up and see that working hard can can
make those dreams come true. So yeah, you're gonna make
me get emotional.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
Scott I McCray, whether it's ph'll be with Dustin Lynch
at Liberty First Credit Union Arena in Ralston December fourth
or two for the road tour before we let you
go here, Scotty, you know, collabs are a big thing
now in country music. It just did a thing with
Hoody and the Blowfish. Is there somebody else, whether you
want to tell us, and hopefully you will or not,
that you have your eye on to do maybe some
more collabs with?
Speaker 1 (05:41):
Yeah, I mean I think there's always I'm a fan
of so many folks, it's not everybody that's out there.
So I think for me, it's just the song has
to be right and it has to fit the collaboration,
you know. For me, like when we did the Scooter
in Friends project that that HOODI was home start out
that way and then a boy little I was thinking, oh, well,
you know, this person would be great on this song.
(06:03):
And so I don't really think ahead of that stuff
until we're writing songs and we see if we think
there's a natural fit for it, if that makes sense.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
I was going to ask if there's any woman you
wanted to sing with, but then you told us Gabe's
listening right now.
Speaker 1 (06:19):
So yeah, she can join on the record as he wants,
you know, But I don't think she'd get in the
studio with me. But you know, one day, I think
it'd be cool to do something with Lauren.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
Uh. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
You know, we've Larna Lane and we've started out together,
and I don't get to see her all that much anymore,
but I'm always rooting for her and I'm always her
biggest band. So yeah, I think that'd be fun one day.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
Tell Us does have a good singing voice. Maybe you
can chime in, do you have a good singing voice?
Speaker 1 (06:48):
She just went upstair because the baby was starting to dry.
But she does have a good voice when she doesn't
think anybody's listening, and then when she knows I'm listening,
she'll start messing around. And but she's got she got
a great boy.
Speaker 2 (06:59):
Well you know you can and Caitlyn Brown, they've got
a number one song together, and I want to think
about it.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
Right We just went on tour with Kane and we
call them do that May one day.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
Well, Scotty, you're one of the people that we really
respect and we look forward to having you here in
Cat Country Liberty First Credit Union Arena and Ralston Thursday,
December fourth with Dustin Lynch, the two for the road
tour continued success. We look forward to seeing here in
Do you mind if we play your number one song now?
Speaker 1 (07:26):
I would love it and I appreciate it, so I
can't wait to see always.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
A good time over there, give our best of your family.
Speaker 1 (07:31):
I will thank you very much by by now
You.
Speaker 2 (00:00):
Number one for new Country Cat one O three point
seven is Steve Engina in the Morning, Steve Lundy, Gina Melton,
and we are pleased to have with us this morning
a gentleman who's going to be performing a cat Country
coming up in December, along with Dustin Lynch. Mister Scotty McCreery. Hey, Scotty,
good morning, Hey, good morning.
Speaker 1 (00:15):
How you doing.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
Hey, We're doing fantastic. It's great to catch up with
you again. First I should say congratulations on another number.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
One song that's pretty great with.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
Bottle Rockets, with Hooting and the Blowfish their first ever
number one. They should be kissing your boots, Scottie.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
Oh, I don't know if it is that it might
be the other way around, but I do appreciate it.
It was a really fun song to sing all sumber
long for sure.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
Well, the day we debuted it here on Cat one
O three point seven, we also were following you on
social media and saw you listening to it for the
first time in your car. That had to be a kick.
Speaker 1 (00:52):
Yeah, that's always like the best thing, Like first time
you hear your song on the radio, you're just like
come home, like especially, I don't know I just grew
up listening to radio, so never gets old. You know,
it's always kind of a pinch me moment.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
Well that's where people hear your songs, and congratulations. I
think it's fantastics great song. As a matter of fact,
we're going to play it in just a couple of
minutes here on KATLINO three point seven.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
Love the news about baby Oliver. How's it going with
a newborn? And then Avery's a toddler? How's that treating
these days?
Speaker 1 (01:20):
Yeah, it's been great. I mean it's an organized chaos
over here, you know, running on just a little bit asleep.
But you know, Oliver is doing great, and give me
he's crushing it as a mom of two. And Avery's
he's been a great big brother. He loves Oliver so much.
The big thing for us is, hey, you have to
be gentle with the baby. Getting a little brother meant
(01:44):
that he could play tackle football with him, like immediately, right,
Gotta work on that.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
But I just think about how your career has changed,
just with your phases in life. I'm in as a
young single man with a lot of TV exposure, and
then he get married and then you have a child.
Now you have two children. I mean, logistically, how have
things changed for you as far as your focus?
Speaker 1 (02:07):
Yeah, you know, I think it's just just going through
life every step of the way. It's like all of us,
you know, and finding that work life balance and you know,
but for me starting out so young, you know, that's
one thing I've enjoyed about going back to listen to
my old music. You know, you kind of grow up
with me, you know, you get to know me as
a teenager and my first album, and now it's kind
(02:27):
of what I'm doing now. It's you know, dad of
too and writing the songs. Your perspective changes to live
a little life. So that's that country music. You know,
it's it's real life.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
Stuff, trying for a little truth or deren Scottie, has
there ever been a time where she just gotten to
the point where in the house it's chaos and you
tell me, hey, I got to go do some work.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
Uh, you know, I try to help out as much
as I can. So she's right here listening.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
So that's funny. I noticed just a little pause answered that.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
I think she's interested in that question too.
Speaker 3 (03:07):
That's funny.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
That's funny.
Speaker 3 (03:09):
Now you've said rise and Fall is your favorite album yet,
and it is a great album. What makes this one
feel kind of special to you?
Speaker 1 (03:17):
Yeah, I mean I think your latest one's always going
to be most special. But I do think for me,
you know, just what I was writing about, you know,
and like we were just talking about, it went from
me just being a kid singing songs of like to
like writing songs about my family and my faith and
like the things that are truly important to me. So
(03:37):
I think what I was writing about, and then how
we wrote it, you know, I took all my writing
buddies to the mountains of North Carolina and we quite
literally sat around the fire with guitars and wrote songs.
You know. It felt like the old days. So to me,
it's just both of those things is what made this
record so special.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
And I for one appreciate what you stand for, Scottie,
I really do, And I think this is it's oh cool.
You were inducted into the Grand Ole Opry last year
by two of my favorites, Josh Turner and my musical
hero Randy Travis, and then he sang three wooden crosses.
That had to be a surreal night for you.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
It's surreal. It's the right word. I mean, it was
just a special night. I've always always said my biggest
bugget list thing or what's on the top of my
you know, Mount Nevers the country music would be to
join the Grand Ole Opry. So yeah, having Josh there
who was a hero of mine, and Randy as well,
and then I mean Garth was the guy that asked
(04:32):
me to join a couple of decembers ago, So it
was again just to pinch me, like, can you believe
this is really happening kind of moment for me.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
So that's very really special, and that's a membership that
can never take away from me. That's that's that's pretty amazing.
Talking with Scott and mccrury here on kat one O
three point seven, I thought.
Speaker 3 (04:50):
That was this was so cute that you mentioned that
one day you're going to tell Avery that this was
your dream and it came true. I mean, I think
you're setting such a wonderful example for your kids that
you know, if you believe it and it's a dream,
it really can come true.
Speaker 1 (05:05):
Absolutely. It's yeah, I thought I ever thought it would
be was a dream that seeing it come true and
you know, hopefully you know, like you said, the kids
can grow up and see that working hard can can
make those dreams come true. So yeah, you're gonna make
me get emotional.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
Scott I McCray, whether it's ph'll be with Dustin Lynch
at Liberty First Credit Union Arena in Ralston December fourth
or two for the road tour before we let you
go here, Scotty, you know, collabs are a big thing
now in country music. It just did a thing with
Hoody and the Blowfish. Is there somebody else, whether you
want to tell us, and hopefully you will or not,
that you have your eye on to do maybe some
more collabs with?
Speaker 1 (05:41):
Yeah, I mean I think there's always I'm a fan
of so many folks, it's not everybody that's out there.
So I think for me, it's just the song has
to be right and it has to fit the collaboration,
you know. For me, like when we did the Scooter
in Friends project that that HOODI was home start out
that way and then a boy little I was thinking, oh, well,
you know, this person would be great on this song.
(06:03):
And so I don't really think ahead of that stuff
until we're writing songs and we see if we think
there's a natural fit for it, if that makes sense.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
I was going to ask if there's any woman you
wanted to sing with, but then you told us Gabe's
listening right now.
Speaker 1 (06:19):
So yeah, she can join on the record as he wants,
you know, But I don't think she'd get in the
studio with me. But you know, one day, I think
it'd be cool to do something with Lauren.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
Uh. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
You know, we've Larna Lane and we've started out together,
and I don't get to see her all that much anymore,
but I'm always rooting for her and I'm always her
biggest band. So yeah, I think that'd be fun one day.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
Tell Us does have a good singing voice. Maybe you
can chime in, do you have a good singing voice?
Speaker 1 (06:48):
She just went upstair because the baby was starting to dry.
But she does have a good voice when she doesn't
think anybody's listening, and then when she knows I'm listening,
she'll start messing around. And but she's got she got
a great boy.
Speaker 2 (06:59):
Well you know you can and Caitlyn Brown, they've got
a number one song together, and I want to think
about it.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
Right We just went on tour with Kane and we
call them do that May one day.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
Well, Scotty, you're one of the people that we really
respect and we look forward to having you here in
Cat Country Liberty First Credit Union Arena and Ralston Thursday,
December fourth with Dustin Lynch, the two for the road
tour continued success. We look forward to seeing here in
Do you mind if we play your number one song now?
Speaker 1 (07:26):
I would love it and I appreciate it, so I
can't wait to see always.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
A good time over there, give our best of your family.
Speaker 1 (07:31):
I will thank you very much by by now
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