- Hey, I'm Scott McCreery, and you're watching NPT Nashville Public Television, your home for Nashville stories. My first gig in Nashville would have been the Grand Ole Opry. I came right off of American Idol, and came here for CMA Fest, and had a show at the Opry that night. I would probably go to the artist that kind of started it all for me. Guys like Ronnie Milsap, Randy Travis, North Carolina's kinda country guys. That's uh, that's what go me on country music. You know, my biggest influence, uh, in my career for country music would probably be a guy that was considered Rock 'n' Roll, but had a lot of country elements to him. That's Elvis Presley. He's a guy I listened to. Five years old. I'm wearing his shirt right now. He's played a major roll in my musical life and he's been a big one for me. Well He Stopped Loving Her Today I chalk full of them and the nursery at Mercy left without mercy, that's a gut wrenching, pull your heart out, that's, George Jones had a way with words and a way of singing it that made you really feel it. Oh there were a lot of them. What I heard most growing up were the North Carolina guys, Randy Travis, Ronnie, and mom's favorite was Conway Twitty and the Twitty Birds So it was a lot of the old school kind of stuff. Album name escape me, but, Hello Darlin', Tight Fitting Jeans, all those were just in the house and I loved it growing up.