SCOTT McKEON
Produced by respected Oasis and Black Crowes collaborator Paul Stacey, Scott McKeon’s 2021 album New Morning is a bona fide guitar record. For fans of blues, rock and even jazz, there’s plenty to dig into over the album’s nine tracks, which bristle with energy thanks to a live-band feel and no shortage of passion, dynamics and classic guitar tones. Swampy blues licks and emotive slide sit alongside sparkling 12-string textures and moody baritone riffs throughout. While the extended solos and band jams evoke McKeon’s 1960s guitar heroes in intent, when delivered with as fiery an intensity as they are here, it’s clear that he’s still pushing the blues-guitar genre forward.
A child guitar prodigy, inspired by his dad’s love of blues, soul and rock music, Scott took up the instrument at the age of just four – check out @scottmckeon33 on Instagram to see a recently posted clip of his seven-year-old self ripping out some lead guitar on a British children’s TV show – and by 13, he was gigging and fronting his own band.
In the years that followed, Scott would go on to tour internationally and open for the likes of Derek Trucks, Gary Clark Jr and even Joe Bonamassa at
