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Scotty Anderson

I was born in Whitley City, Kentucky and moved to Northern Kentucky when I was 19. I've been playing the guitar as far back as I can remember. I worked for Yamaha, along with a dear friend and talented guitar player, Chuck Thompson from 1984 to 1990. I've played many Namm shows and arts/music festivals around the country. I've also traveled to Paris to play for the Chet Atkins Appreciation Society. I teach guitar in Cincinnati and do clinics for music stores and companies in the area. I also play regularly with the Scotty Anderson band. At this time, I endorse Kustom Amps and am involved several projects with Little Blue Productions.

Awards

2001 Cammy Award "Best Jazz Instrumentalist

Gear

Kustom Amps

Scotty Anderson: Classic Scotty

Read "Classic Scotty" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan

by Dan McClenaghan
November 9, 2003

Classic Scotty twangs to life with a back porch, sittin' and pickin' take on the traditional “Going Down and Feeling Bad," with a couple of classic guitar pickers, Scotty Anderson and Harold Kennedy sounding like good old country boys kickin' back and relaxing; and it's a fitting opening for a set that shifts back and forth between back country sounds and gritty hard driving blues and blues-inflected rock. Indeed, the second cut, “La Grange," slinks in on a crawlin' kingsnake/boogie ...

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Video / DVD

Scotty Anderson's Live DVD: Working Without a Net

Source: All About Jazz
December 1, 2008

Here’s what people are saying about Scotty Anderson’s new video Working Without a Net (Live at the Capital) “Having had the distinct honor of being able to produce Triple Stop and Classic Scotty as well as travel with him to various venues: NYC, Dallas, Nashville, etc as well as just talking with him and hearing him play close up, in complete candor I am out of superlatives!! When the guitarist's guitar player, Ted Green says “if he isn't the greatest ...
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Music Industry

J CURVE RECORDS SIGNS GUITARIST SCOTTY ANDERSON FOR DEBUT OF J CURVE ROOTS AND BLUES LABEL

Source: All About Jazz

"Best in the US: the 10 best guitarists (you probably don't know) in America" - Guitar One

“I first heard of Scotty Anderson at a NAMM show, where the buzz on the floor was 'Did you hear the guy who sounds like two Albert Lees playing at once?' I saw him for the first time at a guitar clinic in Grand Rapids, Michigan. I drove there during a major Michigan snowstorm and afterwards decided I'd have walked to hear him ...
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"When I hear you play I sense that you have listened to all the great masters and then added your on soul, feel and technique. Each time I hear you play I learn something. Best of luck on this your first album. It is great."

Chet Atkins- From the album cover "Sleight of Hand" Scotty's 1st recording

"In writing about music for almost 20 years, I've heard hundreds of great musicians. Until now, I've never applied a particular, overused word to any of them. But there's no getting around it this time. Scotty Anderson is a genius...He not only can do it all, he can do it better than just about anybody has ever done it anywhere. If you've never heard him, then "Triple Stop" is a good place to start.