Scotty Emerick was left with no option. The guitarist and songwriter from Hollywood, Florida was enthralled with music and knew he had to travel to Nashville to pursue his dreams before he had even graduated from high school.
For the young man acquainted with legendary local hero and blazing honky tonk singer Gary Stewart—at least from sporadic glimpses of the intensely disturbed country sensation in Vero Beach, where Emerick eventually settled—there was no turning back. Stewart was leaving behind an excessively heated and unsuccessful collaboration with Dean Dillon, who would go on to become a Country Music Hall of Fame member and the most recorded writer in George Strait's discography.
To be up there is to have a song on A Beautiful Time, Willie Nelson's Grammy-winning record. It entails traveling the globe to conduct writers' nights with people like Dean Dillon, participating in USO tours in the Middle East, the Far East, and anywhere our men and women are serving, sitting in on Buffett's Coral Reefer Band in Antarctica, and taking the stage with many of the biggest acts in the nation.
Some people arrive in Nashville with a clear idea of where they want to go and a plan, but Emerick simply knew he wanted to be where the music was, where he could absorb information and release tunes. After thirty years, not much has changed for the man whose songs have sold tens of millions of albums—he of the cocky smile and the cocky smile..

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