Tim O’Brien & Darrell Scott

“When Tim and I get together, we push each other’s Appalachian roots buttons,” Scott points out. “My Kentucky comes out, and so does his West Virginia. It happens naturally, it’s not a strategy. We know Southern gospel, Jimmie Rodgers and the Carter Family, and not just a little—it’s in our DNA. And when me and Tim sing close harmonies, that brother blend, like we do on Hank’s ’Alone and Forsaken,’ neither of us is behind the other; we both stand up and deliver.”