Hey folks. My name is Scott Stepakoff and this is the bio that gets you excited to buy my CD, "RED LIGHT TURNS GREEN". I live in Nashville, TN with my wife Jody, my 2 dogs, Karma and Henry, and my 2 cats, Jake and Lucy. I grew up in Atlanta, GA. I moved to Nashville, TN in 2004 after spending 5 years in Los Angeles as the lead singer in a band called Turtle Grove. We were an improvisational, jam-oriented, southern influenced group ala Allman Brothers Band, Widespread Panic, but with songs more in the vein of the Wallflowers and Train. Actually, think about what would happen if you took Sheryl Crow, Counting Crows and the Black Crows and put them together. How's that? I grew up on Rock & Roll, but discovered Country shortly after moving from LA to Atlanta. I loved how lyric driven and honest the songs were and are. So I started looking for ways to improve my lryic writing, got into Country music and original songwriters like Darryl Scott, Steve Earle, John Hiatt. Got involved in NSAI down in Atlanta and started making trips to Nashville. Met Barbara Cloyd ("I Guess You Had To Be There") who invited me to participate in a play for publishers workshop that she was putting on. The more I came up to Nashville, the more I knew I had to be here. I'll never forget what my wife said to me after coming home from my last trip. I was telling her about all the people I met and how much they all seemed to really like my stuff. I was excited talking a mile a minute, and she cut me off by saying, "We're moving to Nashville aren't we?" Not long after being here, and playing out at writers nights, I met Chris Oglesby, a veteren song-plugger and publisher, who took an interest in what I was doing. Said he liked "the way I thought and wanted to help me develop. Chris and I have been working together ever since. He started his own company called Oglesby Writer Management and that is where I do my writing. I have had great opportunites and they seem to get better every day. Have written with some amazing writers and my writing keeps improving. I just finished a record of some of my own stuff, too. It's called "Red Light Turns Green". Thanks for checking in with me. Life is good. 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