Hillary Scott & The Scott Family
Hillary Scott was prepared to heavily dose herself with pain medication — she wasn't going to miss Lady Antebellum's first headlining concert at Nashville's Bridgestone Arena last September.
It wouldn't have mattered if she did. Advil won't heal a broken heart.
Most people didn't know it, but when Scott walked on stage, the singer was about nine weeks pregnant. At a doctor's appointment earlier that week, she found out something might be wrong. She refused to let fear steal her hometown moment and took the stage with bandmates Charles Kelley and Dave Haywood to deliver a show that kept more than 12,000 people on their feet.
The following week, she learned she'd lost the baby. Scott leaned on her family and her faith even more and with their help and the support of Nashville's music community, she turned her darkest hours into music that reflects hope and light.
While the album was already underway when Scott suffered her miscarriage, her journey through grief inspired its lead single "Thy Will," which Scott wrote with Emily Weisband and Bernie Herms. The singer had scheduled the writing appointment months before and decided to keep it even though it fell in the midst of her health crisis.
"I was like, 'I'm not going to cancel these. I know I have something to talk about now ... thy will be done, those four words were all I could pray through that," Scott said. "It just kept resurfacing in so many different areas in my life that it was just God's way of going, 'Pay attention to this.'"
Hillary Scott & the Scott Family is comprised of Scott, mother (and country singer) Linda Davis, her father Lang Scott and her 15-year-old sister Rylee Jean. Scott's husband, Chris Tyrrell, played drums on the project and the couple frequently brought their three-year-old daughter Eisele Kaye into the studio. The Scotts are used to performing as a family unit — while Hillary was in high school, Davis headlined three seasons of the Linda Davis Christmas Dinner show at Gaylord Opryland Resort. At the time, Hillary was 16 and Rylee Jean was 2.
When her father asked Scott last year if she would join the family to make a gospel EP as a thank you to supportive friends following the loss of his father, the singer immediately said yes. A few days later, Scott and her fellow band members decided to put Lady Antebellum on a brief hiatus at the end of 2015.
Then, she upped the stakes — Scott decided she wanted to make a full-length gospel album and release it through her record label EMI Records Nashville.
Scott took the idea to chairman and CEO of Universal Music Group Nashville Mike Dungan and UMG Nashville president Cindy Mabe and with their full approval, pushed forward.
Hillary Scott was prepared to heavily dose herself with pain medication — she wasn't going to miss Lady Antebellum's first headlining concert at Nashville's Bridgestone Arena last September.
It wouldn't have mattered if she did. Advil won't heal a broken heart.
Most people didn't know it, but when Scott walked on stage, the singer was about nine weeks pregnant. At a doctor's appointment earlier that week, she found out something might be wrong. She refused to let fear steal her hometown moment and took the stage with bandmates Charles Kelley and Dave Haywood to deliver a show that kept more than 12,000 people on their feet.
The following week, she learned she'd lost the baby. Scott leaned on her family and her faith even more and with their help and the support of Nashville's music community, she turned her darkest hours into music that reflects hope and light.
While the album was already underway when Scott suffered her miscarriage, her journey through grief inspired its lead single "Thy Will," which Scott wrote with Emily Weisband and Bernie Herms. The singer had scheduled the writing appointment months before and decided to keep it even though it fell in the midst of her health crisis.
"I was like, 'I'm not going to cancel these. I know I have something to talk about now ... thy will be done, those four words were all I could pray through that," Scott said. "It just kept resurfacing in so many different areas in my life that it was just God's way of going, 'Pay attention to this.'"
Hillary Scott & the Scott Family is comprised of Scott, mother (and country singer) Linda Davis, her father Lang Scott and her 15-year-old sister Rylee Jean. Scott's husband, Chris Tyrrell, played drums on the project and the couple frequently brought their three-year-old daughter Eisele Kaye into the studio. The Scotts are used to performing as a family unit — while Hillary was in high school, Davis headlined three seasons of the Linda Davis Christmas Dinner show at Gaylord Opryland Resort. At the time, Hillary was 16 and Rylee Jean was 2.
When her father asked Scott last year if she would join the family to make a gospel EP as a thank you to supportive friends following the loss of his father, the singer immediately said yes. A few days later, Scott and her fellow band members decided to put Lady Antebellum on a brief hiatus at the end of 2015.
Then, she upped the stakes — Scott decided she wanted to make a full-length gospel album and release it through her record label EMI Records Nashville.
Scott took the idea to chairman and CEO of Universal Music Group Nashville Mike Dungan and UMG Nashville president Cindy Mabe and with their full approval, pushed forward.
