Scott Coney

Musician
Best known for Guitar

Scott Coney is a guitarist, banjo player and fiddler who has played in Alan Jackson’s road band, the Strayhorns, since 2005. Before that he worked for more than a decade in the touring bands of country singers, among them Martina McBride, Lorrie Morgan, Tracy Byrd and George Jones.

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He played fiddle, mandolin and acoustic guitar for Martina McBride in 1993 and 1994, then guitar for James House in 1995 and for Lorrie Morgan in 1996. He was Tracy Byrd’s guitarist from 1997 to 2000 and George Jones’s from 2000 to 2005.

With the Strayhorns he plays guitar, banjo and fiddle. At Jackson’s sold-out artist-in-residence show at the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum in October 2014 he was on acoustic guitar, in a band with Monty Allen, Danny Groah, Robbie Flint, Roger Wills, Bruce Rutherford, Joey Schmidt and the fiddler Ryan Joseph Ogrodny. In the studio he played guitar throughout Jackson’s The Bluegrass Album (EMI, 2013), recorded in Nashville with Sammy Shelor on banjo, Adam Steffey on mandolin, Tim Crouch on fiddle, Rob Ickes on resonator guitar and Tim Dishman on bass.

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