Dylan Scotthas driven many a truck in his life, but it’s the first one he can’t seem to forget.
“My granddad had a 1988 Toyota 4x4 single cab pickup truck,” Scott, 30, tells PEOPLE in a recent interview. “He actually gave it to me and then I worked all summer to buy a lift kit for it and tires and wheels and a stereo system and all that stuff. So yeah, it was pretty cool. It’s a special truck.”
Granted, the country music hitmaker has gone and climbed behind the wheel of nearly 10 more trucks in his lifetime thus far, with every single one playing a different role in his ever-changing life.
“I’m definitely a truck guy,” he says. “I go through them like crazy. I’m pretty sure I get a new one every year and a half or so. I get bored with them pretty quick.”
It was Scott’s current truck of choice, an Ford F-150, that he was sitting in when he took his first listen to his current single “New Truck,” a twist on the traditional country song about trucks, choosing to focus more on the bittersweet memories that seem forever etched within the seats of the trucks of one’s life.
Dylan Scott.Cody Villalobos
Yes, it’s even relatable to a guy like Scott, who has known his wife Blair since he was just 15 years old.
“I think we had a stint where we broke up for two or three months,” he says with a laugh. “And those were a tough few months. Sometimes, it’s in those times that you hop in your car, or your truck and you think about all the good times y’all had riding down that road, and you’re just trying to do anything to get rid of these memories.”
“As a kid growing up watching the CMT Awards, you never think that you’d actually win an award,” says Scott, whose debut single “My Girl"went to No. 1back in 2016. “Even when I was nominated, I was like, ‘It’s cool to be nominated, but I’ll never win that.’ And then they actually call your name, and you just can’t believe it’s real.”
Dylan Scott.Katie Kauss
Scott is also in a current state of disbelief about the crowds he now finds himself performing in front of these days as he’s currently on the road withLuke Bryanon theProud to Be Right Here Tour. And with the country star out on this particular tour through October, his family won’t be with him as much as he might like.
“I’m back on one bus and spending time with my band, just like the old days,” says Scott, who will headline his third annual Bayou Stock Festival on Oct. 23 in his home state of Louisiana. “The fam will probably come for a couple of days here and there so they can experience it.”
And one of those who seems more eager than ever to experience the rock star life is Scott’s3½-year-old sonBeckett.
“My wife found a video of him the other day on her phone — he had set her phone up on the bar, turned the camera around to him, pressed record and said, ‘Hey, what’s up y’all? This is Beckett Scott,'” Scott recalls. “This kid is watching me too much. He’s watching my every move.”
He laughs heartily: “Either I’m in trouble or this kid’s about to make me a lot of money!”
With Beckett anddaughter Finley Gray, 22 months, at home, will Scott and Blair be adding to their brood?
“My wife says we’re done, but I could go one more and she knows that,” Scott says with a laugh. “So you never, never know.”
source: people.com
