Scotty McCreery is a very proud member of the Grand Ole Opry. McCreery was inducted in 2024 by Josh Turner, after being invited by Garth Brooks to join at the end of 2023. For McCreery, nothing will ever mean as much to him in his career as becoming an Opry member.

McCreery was recently at the Grand Ole Opry, to perform as part of the star-studded Opry 100 anniversary show, celebrating a century of the historic institution.

“This is it for me,” McCreery tells Everything Nash. “Being an Opry member was at the top of my bucket list. So, the fact that it happened a year before Opry 100, it’s just so crazy. I’ve been reading about the Opry … I’m just so pumped to be here.”

“I don’t think we’d be here without the Opry,” he adds. “I hope they all realize that. I’m just such a fan of what the Opry stood for, and just the traditions behind it all.”

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Scotty McCreery Talks About His Baby Boy, Oliver

McCreery and his wife, Gabi, welcomed their second son, Oliver, into the world in September. McCreery is understandably a proud father, to both of his little boys.

“Oliver is doing great,” McCreery boasts. “He’s starting to sleep a little more, which Mom and Daddy are very happy about. And then Avery, he’s been such a great big brother. He’s three now, and just loving Oliver, and wants to hold him… we’re having to work on the gentle thing. I think he wants to play tackle football all day.”

Scotty McCreery Reveals Plans For New Music After ‘Bottle Rockets’

McCreery just had a No. 1 single with “Bottle Rockets,” a collaboration with Hootie & the Blowfish. McCreery reveals he is already making plans to release more music in 2026.

“We’re working on it,” McCreery says. “I’m gonna get back in the writers’ room soon and get back in the studio. We got it all scheduled. It’ll be coming out.”

“Bottle Rockets” was written while McCreery was on a writers’ retreat with other songwriters.

“We had a lot of songs started going into that retreat, but this song came out of a conversation,” McCreery recalls on Today’s Country Radio with Kelleigh Bannen. “This was us reminiscing on previous summers, like ‘I remember my last summer of no job, no responsibilities and school was out. That was such a fun summer.’ And for me in the Carolinas, and I think for everybody worldwide, Hootie & the Blowfish were huge. It was just talking about those soundtracks of summer. I forget who played into it first, but the chords were kind of matching, and we were like, ‘Man, that’s kind of cool,’ so we just ran with it.”

McCreery recently released his own version of “White Christmas,” just in time for the holidays.

“I love Christmas music and sing it throughout the year,” McCreery says. “For a long time, ‘White Christmas’ has been one of my favorite Christmas songs. I especially love The Drifters’ version as well as Elvis’s version. I decided it was now time to do my own version.”

McCreery is currently on his co-headlining Two For the Road Tour with Dustin Lynch.

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