Few bands on the Texas country circuit — a scene largely made up of affable college dropouts — can say that they have a true-blue U.S. Marine up front, but the Scooter Brown Band can. Lead singer-songwriter/Iraq war combat veteran Scott Brown chose music after the Corps, and now his Montgomery-bred band travels the countryside sharing honky-tonk stages with the likes of Rich O’Toole and Brandon Rhyder. In a couple of weeks, the four-piece will travel to Washington, D.C., to play the Black Tie & Boots Presidential Inauguration Ball for some hard-partyin’ Texans in the nation’s capital.
This article appears in Jan 3-9, 2013.