Scott Logan
In Matthew 25, Jesus gives us the Parable Of The Talents. I've kind of always felt like the guy who was given one talent. In my case, my one talent, one dream, one desire is to play music. It's been the thing that I have pursued most of my life.
I grew up in Portland, ME and always loved to watch the people in my life play musical instruments even when I was little. As a young grade school student I was into many of the artists of the 80s. Artists like Bruce Hornsby, Steve Winwood, Huey Lewis, Steely Dan, and many more would sing the songs that I would pretend to sing in my mirror. Eventually as I got a little older, I started to play the guitar at the age of 12. So began a passion that would never cease.
As a Christian, I've always chosen to write songs about my faith. Many times I've said that whatever is inside of an artist is going to come out in their creation. Whether you are a painter, sculptor, or a songwriter, whatever you create is going to have a little of what defines you in it. For me, that is my faith. I've never pursued any other avenue than Christian music, because what I am inspired to write about is Jesus. Why stop or change a good thing?
Throughout the first part of my music career I played in the northeast as the front man for a band called Three Days Down which later became more popular as the band New Mercy Morning. With the boys from NMM, I had the opportunity to open up for several national Christian artists when they visited New England. We opened for Sara Groves, Seventh Day Slumber, Geoff Moore, and Downhere to name a few. I always tried to learn from these artists when they came. I wanted to gather as much information about the music business as possible.
A few years ago, I prayerfully made the decision to leave New Mercy Morning and pursue a full time music career as a solo artist in Nashville. My wife and I moved to Chattanooga, TN to be closer to Nashville while she worked for a stable employer in Chattanooga. In May 2010, I released my first album as a solo artist called So Much More, and got my first radio single called, "Representin'."
In Spring of 2011, I did a national indie tour called The So Much More Tour. The tour took me to places in Tennessee, Missouri, Arkansas, North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia, New York, New Hampshire, Maine, etc.
Some have asked me before, "Why do you play music for a living?" Besides the obvious "why not?" response, I like to tell people that the reason I'm a songwriter is because I'm being faithful to what God has called me to do. I said that sometimes I feel like the guy with one talent in Jesus' parable. I don't want to be guilty of hiding it or burying it. I want to use it so that my talent has meaning. A purpose to build people up and to share my faith. My hope is that when you the listener download a Scott Logan song or buy a CD that, not only will you dig my tunes, but you will understand the heart behind them. I want my music to point you to Jesus. I want my love songs to be tools that enrich your relationships with others and Christ.
When all is said and done and I'm looking back at the life that I've been given, it's not really going to matter how many albums I've sold or how many requests I got on the radio. I want to remember the lives that were touched. I want to look forward to eternity knowing that there are people I'm going to see in heaven because they might have heard a song of mine that pointed them to Jesus. I want to know that mu music has encouraged you to see the "So Much More" in your relationship with God.