Scott Perry
| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Industry | Arts |
| Occupation | Musician |
| Location | Floyd, Virginia, United States |
| Introduction | I am a husband, father, teacher and musician living in Floyd County, Virginia. I perform traditional and original acoustic blues, jazz, swing, honky tonk and vintage rock & roll as a solo artist and w/ my band Front Porch Swing. I own and operate a fretted instrument instruction studio called the Pickin' Porch (now located in the Jacksonville Center), where I instruct dozens of guitar, mandolin & ukulele students. I also conduct educational workshops on blues music. As if that weren't enough, I also my own promotion company and record label Oh Papa Music. My wife and I live on a 40 acre farm in Floyd County, VA where we raise our two sons, dogs, cats, chickens, fruit trees, berry bushes, a vegetable garden and more than a few eyebrows. |
| Interests | Authenticity, Love, Family, Friends, Truth, Justice, Music, Art, Writing |
| Favorite Movies | Lawrence of Arabia, Anything Directed By Frank Capra (Especially "You Can't Take It With You" and "It's a Wonderful Life"), Pontiac Moon, Out of Africa, The Wizard of Oz, Spaghetti Westerns (Especially Ones Starring Clint Eastwood), Anything Starring the Marx Brothers Laurel and Hardy W.C. Fields or the Three Stooges |
| Favorite Music | Just about anything recorded before 1950 and a surprising amount of stuff recorded since. |
| Favorite Books | Ernest Hemmingway, William Faulkner, John Steinbeck, James Baldwin, Toni Morisson, Alice Walker, Nick Tosches, The Hobbit, The Tipping Point |
You forgot your mom's birthday! What can you make out of super glue and olive pits?
Nothing that will protect me from her wrath!