Scotty McCreery Credits The ‘Three Fs’ For His Career Success

Author Lauren Hoffman

April 17th 12:18 PM

Scotty McCreery has been one of the hardest-working artists in the music industry, and he has been ever since he was crowned the winner of American Idol in 2011. With his Grand Ole Opry induction just days away, the country star is taking time to reflect on his career success and credits the “three Fs.”

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“Three Fs. Faith, family, friends. That’s like the most important things to me,” McCreery said.

He continued, “Faith has always been huge for me. My family has always had my back. My friends that I still hang out with today at 30 are my friends that I grew up with at two years old. It’s a wild little group we got. So, as much as they are my biggest fans and biggest supporters, at the same time, they truly could not care less. They’re just my good buddies. I think that helped a lot.”

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The 30-year-old has always been very vocal about his faith and most recently even released a song about it. McCreery says “Red Letter Blueprint” has a “very deep meaning” to him and the track will be featured on his upcoming album, Rise and Fall.

Although he’s a country star, there’s no doubt that McCreery is a family man and a very loyal friend day in and day out. He expressed his appreciation for his parents, Mike and Judi, and his wife, Gabi Dugal. McCreery tied the knot with Gabi Dugal in 2018 and welcomed their first child, a son, Merrick Avery McCreery, in 2022.

McCreery’s highly anticipated fifth studio album, Rise and Fall, due out May 10, will include previously released tracks “Cab In A Solo,” “Love Like This,” “Can’t Pass The Bar,” and “Slow Dance.” The 13-track collection follows his 2021 project, Same Truck, featuring hits “You Time” and “Damn Straight.”

The Triple Tigers recording artist will fulfill a lifelong dream on Saturday (4/20) when he becomes the newest member of the Opry. McCreery will be inducted by Opry member Josh Turner, following his invitation on stage in December by Garth Brooks.

Kelly Ford in the studio with Backstage Country guest host Scotty McCreery. [Photo Credit: Beasley Media]

Top Five Country Music Friendships

Carly Pearce and Ashley McBryde
These two friends will forever be linked not just for their duet “Never Wanted To Be That Girl” but because they won a Grammy for the performance in 2023 for Best Country Duo/Group Performance. When we interviewed McBryde recently, she told us of her friendship with Pearce, “We are opposites, especially in the way we enter a room. Carly always seems to me to be very well put together and has thought out what. She’s about to say. I’m more likely to come in a room and be like (loud burst) ‘Blahhhhh’ and be kind of all over the place. I think that’s why we got along so well. But that friendship started as a songwriter wanted. I wanted to write with Carly; I wanted to sing something with her.”
Kane Brown and Chris Young
These two sealed their friendship with a collaboration called “Famous Friends,” which Young co-wrote. The collaboration’s video for “Famous Friends” won the 2021 CMT Music Award for Collaboration of the Year. Early in his career. Kane told us about being a fan of Young’s music. He said, “I probably did as many Chris covers as I did other people’s covers. And then when I got signed with Sony, it was the same label that Chris was on, and they knew I loved him right off the bat.”
Blake Shelton and Reba McEntire
Blake told us what Reba McEntire did for him early in his Nashville career: “The ACM announcements/ nominees three years ago (2009), way before they were asking me, host, she agreed to go, and Reba doesn’t do this; she agreed to be on CBS’ Early Morning Show to announce the nominees for the ACMs if they would let me be on there with her. Normally, they send a couple of new baby acts to go do that because nobody wants to wake up that early and go do that, but Reba did that for me. If there’s ever a time she can lend a hand, she’s always been that for me.”

Reba sat in Shelton’s chair in “The Voice” semi-final in May. She is a Season 24 Coach.
Morgan Wallen and HARDY
These guys have been friends since the beginning of their respective careers in Nashville. HARDY told us about when he first met Morgan after he heard Wallen’s debut single, “The Way I Talk.” He said, “I think it was like Top 30, and I was just a huge fan of the song, and I had not met him before, and it was just kind of the publisher route,” HARDY explained that he called his publisher and asked to be contacted with Morgan’s booker asking to write with him. HARDY said, “And two weeks later, he was on the schedule, and I got a text at like 10 am, and he was like, ‘Hey, this is Morgan Wallen, what’s your address?’ and he just showed up to my house.”
Jelly Roll and Lainey Wilson
Lainey and Jelly Roll are not just friends; they have an award-nominated collaboration together, “Save Me.” Jelly Roll recently told ET of his friendship with Lainey, “That’s just my sister. That’s how I look at her.” He added that there’s such a kinship with Wilson and noted that and the fact that they’re both where they are in our careers right now, at the same record label, with a song together that’s “Just on fire.”