Yonrico Scott

Yonrico Scott
Scott performing with the Derek Trucks Band July 20, 2008
Background information
Genres	Blues, Blues rock, R&B, Gospel, Rock 'n' Roll
Occupation(s)	Musician, songwriter, record producer
Instruments	Drums, tympani, conga drums, shakers, tambourine, maracas, sabasa, chimes
Years active	1995–present
Labels	Landslide Records, Legacy Recordings/Columbia Records, Sony Music, House of Blues
Associated acts	The Derek Trucks Band, Derek Trucks, The Yonrico Scott Band, Susan Tedeschi, Earl Klugh Quartet, Derek Trucks and Susan Tedeschi Band, Royal Southern Brotherhood
Website	www.yonricoscott.com

Yonrico Scott is an American drummer and percussionist. He was a longtime member of the Grammy winning The Derek Trucks Band, is bandleader of his own ensemble, the Yonrico Scott Band, and is currently working with the Royal Southern Brotherhood, with Cyril Neville. Having developed his craft not only from years of session work, roadwork, and study, the Cape Cod Times proclaimed him "a standout in the band... whose strong beats powered songs such as 'I'll Find My Way' off the group's Songlines CD".

Yonrico Scott was raised in Detroit, Michigan with a keen interest in music, encouraged by his family. He first showed interest in playing the drums, receiving lessons at age seven. For a period of time, while learning and practicing the drums, Scott moved on to playing gospel music, and at age fourteen had mastered all that was available in the metropolitan city the previous year, earning him a reputation as the best performer in that genre. Scott moved on and became a student Motown drummer George Hamilton, with a growing interest in R&B music in his teens. He later worked as a session musician for a large number of famous figures, including Stevie Wonder.

After high school graduation, Scott attended the University of Kentucky, where he graduated in 1978 with a Bachelor's Degree, in performance percussion. After college, Scott moved to Atlanta, Georgia.

Scott joined The Derek Trucks Band in 1995. Scott was the second permanent member (after bassist Todd Smallie) of the blues rock band, which toured extensively. During the band's formative years, Trucks added two other musicians, but was unsatisfied with their contributions, but Scott remained, through a metamorphosis of both personnel and musical direction while Trucks was assembling the band's final lineup, which was complete in 2002 with the addition of Mike Mattison as vocalist, Kofi Burbridge (keyboards, flute and backing vocals), and occasional appearances by percussionist Count M'Butu, as well as Trucks himself. By 2010, Scott had contributed to the songwriting and performed on every one of the band's six studio albums and both of their live albums. In 2010, accepted the Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Blues Album for both himself and for all the other members of The Derek Trucks Band at the 52nd Grammy Awards, for their 2009 album, Already Free.