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Interview with Chris Scott © Palmer Eldrich 2002 Who is Chris Scott? In this world of being bombarded with new artists in all possible markets, young, trendy, each with their own peculiar marketing quirks, the funny one, the serious one, the weird one, the one with the funny hat, who cares who and what this virtually unknown middle aged man is and why should we? Well we should. We should care because for twenty years he has ploughed his own furrow, doing it his way, never giving up no matter what life has thrown at him; we should care not because his has been a story of endurance, but because of his vision, his search and because of his stubborn refusal to be anything other than his own man. Because for some people sometimes, only something of Chris Scott’s will do, because for some people his songs touch home in ways which only his songs can do, and because of what he is and who he is and because somehow, through his music, he helps us define things to do with ourselves. Becaus...