Hey, this is the moment. I'm Brian Koebleman. Thanks for listening. So this is, I know, this is a special one for me. I've had a bunch of songwriters on this podcast, like great, great songwriters like Amy man and Steve Earl and

Justin Towns are all and Jason Isball.

Darryl Scott is in the league of all those people he's he's one of our great songwriters a true

treasure and someone I first met a long time ago when I was in college and I had this

very tight-knit group of friends in high school, one of whom, and all of us still know each other, which is a weird thing, and one of whom ended up meeting Darrell and playing me his music, and then another friend ended up signing you to your first record deal

who was friends with Ed too and this whole crew it was Edgauer was my friend

and still and Peter Gambarg who now like runs Atlantic Records

ANR and and but Darrell what I remember and I'm gonna do this off of the top of my head so correct me if I get

lyrics wrong but people if folks don't know and and Darrell has written

written songs for some of the most important artists in country music, I mean, Garth Brooks and

Travis Tritt and the Dixie Chicks and many more, and has made many albums of his own

songs and he's also widely considered like the best guitarist in

country music and one of the best guitarist in the country. I'm sure Brad Paisley

have something to say about the best guitarist thing. Yeah, he's a monster.

There's no doubt about it.

I know you guys have played together and stuff.

Yeah, we have.

Early on in his career, and we did a taping one time at the Blue Bird.

And we never really met nor played together, but we just both brought the fire that night.

Oh, that's so sick.

Well, this is what I was going to say, Darrell, is that as a writer, and what I plan to

start with, and again I'm going to do this off the top of my head is there's this

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