Raised in a tiny town in the California High-Desert, Addam experienced a side of California not often seen in the cinematic glitz of the silver screen. Leaving for school each day he watched the garage roof of the house across the street bow further down each year as hydroiodic acid gas slowly chewed through the wood fibers of the roof above the meth lab inside. Every day he would look at that roof and promise himself he would get out before it finally fell.

At 17 Addam left for Wyoming and found a couple of jobs and a place to park and sleep off highway 189. The town was over-run with hippies from The Rainbow light Family celebrating what some of them called "Un- Independence Day". In many ways, the cultural clash of hippies, cowboys, yuppies, rednecks, and tourists helped set the stage for the future. That summer he learned his first chords on a borrowed Silvertone in the shade of a busted school bus named the "Modesto Joy Exodus". The clumsy strumming of "Free Fallin" could be heard in the back acres of a sleepy horse ranch all summer.

In the year 2000, he was blessed to have a near fatal accident falling nearly 60 feet off the cliffs of Catalina Island. The fall resulted in cracked vertebrae, dislocated shoulders, 224 stitches from the neck up, a nearly severed tongue, and a broken jawbone. Recovery from the event left him with his jaw wired shut for 6 weeks. Prior to the accident he was content to write music for others. But something about the inability to speak or sing in that time frame gave him incentive to bring his own voice to the music he was writing as soon as he was able to recover. Sometimes you need to be held underwater to really understand how much you need to breathe.

His journey has taken him to nearly every state in The Union. Each stranger Addam met provided an experience to be tucked away as reference material in hopes of bringing the commonality of human experience into song.

Addam Scott's music has been influenced by a variety of artists including Kris Kristofferson, Waylon Jennings, Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson, Townes Van Zandt, Merle Haggard, Bright Eyes, and Social Distortion.

As a songwriter, he has co-written music for television shows and some feature films. Earlier solo recordings have been featured on independent radio stations and internet radio stations the world over.

He has recently been focused on promoting a four-song EP "Gallows". He is immensely fortunate and appreciative to have enlisted Joshua Stevens of SLCA Productions as producer the album. His contributions as a producer are immeasurable.

When he isn't in the studio he keeps himself busy with spending time with his wife, playing with his bulldog (not a euphemism), poker games, target practice, fine bourbon, and the co-organization of "Honky Tonk Christmas" a yearly fundraising show benefitting The Boys and Girls Club of Long Beach with SoCal Honky Tonk band West of Texas. 2010 celebrates our fifth anniversary.

Addam regularly (well, maybe semi-regularly) updates his blog and checks out the message boards on this site. If you would like to ask him a question or would like to know more please check them out.

And if you are still curious, that old rotting roof in the desert never did fall...