Ray Scott

Ray Scott was born in Marion, Arkansas in 1936 and started playing guitar around age five. He came up listening to Hank Williams and other country voices of that era. In the early 1960s, his debut album 'My Kind of Music' gave him a hit with its title track.

His songs like 'My Kind of Music' and 'Gone Either Way' had a straightforward country sound with clear melodies and lyrics about ordinary situations. He worked with musicians like steel guitarist Don Helms and fiddler Buddy Spicher on records through the 1960s and into the 1970s.

Scott had some legal trouble in 1966 over taxes that led to prison time, but he kept recording. He was known for being direct about his views on country music's direction. Later on, he was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1996.