Scott Perry has reproduced the artistic flavor of the great blues players.  His style is distinctive, but he remains true to the greats!  It's a great listen!
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In Hero Worship, Scott Perry manages to sucessfully blend roots blues with other styles of traditional music. It is an outstanding piece of work, one that should appeal to a wide range of audiences. It's been in my cd player since the release, and everyone who I've passed a copy along to has agreed that not only is Scott one of the most talented blues musicians on the scene today, his interpretations of old classics bring a whole new feel to some really great familiar tunes. I highly recommend it to fans of blues music, and those just getting their feet wet; it is very accessible music, even if you are new to the blues. Buy two- you're sure to find a friend who wants a copy!
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In Hero Worship, Scott Perry manages to sucessfully blend roots blues with other styles of traditional music. It is an outstanding piece of work, one that should appeal to a wide range of audiences. It's been in my cd player since the release, and everyone who I've passed a copy along to has agreed that not only is Scott one of the most talented blues musicians on the scene today, his interpretations of old classics bring a whole new feel to some really great familiar tunes. I highly recommend it to fans of blues music, and those just getting their feet wet; it is very accessible music, even if you are new to the blues. Buy two- you're sure to find a friend who wants a copy!
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Resophonic steel guitarist, vocalist and ace arranger Scott Perry has been captivating audiences with his distinctive mix of self-penned and traditional country blues for over twenty years.  Recently settled in in Floyd County, Virginia, he spent his formative years traveling up and down the East Coast and into the Midwest, including a pivotal period in Chicago where he was mentored by blues veterans like Smokey Smothers, David "Honeyboy" Edwards and Carl Weathersby.

Three earlier releases focused largely on his original material, while this disc is devoted to the songs and performers that initially insprired him to pick up the guitar.   From William Moore ("One Way Gal" and a swaggering "Ragtime Millionaire"), Blind Boy Fuller and Mississippi John Hurt to Skip James (a brooding "Hard Time Killing Floor"), Furry Lewis, Blind Blake and Tampa Red's lively "Jitter Jump," Perry visits the music of his mentors.

Perry's relaxed, unkempt vocals are especially effective on a pair of jug band revivals ("Going to Germany" and "France Blues") with Rick Manson on harmonica and Scott Baldwin's jug added to the proceedings while his arrangement of traditional songs like "See See Rider" and "Oh Papa" along with the instrumental "Spanish Fandango" uncover an easy-rolling, acoustic finger-picking style that expansively burnishes chords, melodies and rhythms.  Covers of Robert Johnson's angular "Stop Breaking Down" and Muddy Waters' reverberating "I's Be Troubled" catch the ear as well.

Perry is also an active promoter of the blues with his Blues Pathways Foundation, frequent Blues in the Schools and guitar workshops throughout the country.  This marvelous, self-produced tribute project was recorded locally, with no compression, at Mark Hodge's intimate Mountain Fever Studio in Willis, Virginia.  Your toes will be tappin'.   Gvon T, "Sing Out!" (Summer 2004, Vol. 48 #2)
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