Happy New Year, everyone, and best wishes for a wonderful 2013! I want to start this new year by taking the opportunity to tell you all how much I appreciate you. Thank you so much!

We are starting the new year with a new song! We have just released Just A Shame, and we are excited for you to hear it!

Just A Shame is a single that has taken an interesting journey from start to completion. I was hired several years ago to complete a publishing deal in Nashville. I had the chance to co-write several songs with big names in Nashville songwriting (Angela Kaset and John Goodwin) and Matthew Wilder of Wilderside Productions. Amidst a cross-country move, several years of international touring and other delays, the songs remained on a hard-drive until March 2012 when I returned to Nashville to complete them. Several intense days of recording, while residing at a beautiful horse-ranch just outside of Nashville, readied the songs for mixing and mastering.

Just A Shame is a significant departure from my other work. The goal with the writing/publishing sessions was to write pop directed, TV/film soundtrack, big radio style tunes. I feel like this goal was reached. I think you will find that Just A Shame still retains, however, my signature sounds, amplified by Wilder's fantastic production.

I feel like big things are on the horizon in 2013, with the release of four new singles, a possible writing/recording project with Michael O'Neill, and a tour in the UK with Hilary Scott and The New County Line. Thank you for being part of this incredible journey!

Hilary Scott has just released a new single: Just a Shame - a catchy and lush anthemic pop song, written by Scott and Matthew Wilder (Castle Studios, Nashville). Just A Shame was mastered at the prestigious Georgetown Mastering in Nashville, TN. Download available now on iTunes or get a collector's edition, autographed, CD-cover-sized sticker/download card at Hilary Scott and the New County Line's upcoming live shows, or from theHilary Scott website store.

Hilary Scott and The New County line will be touring in the UK in July 2013, in conjunction with the Americana Series UK/Europe. This turn of events occurred after Hilary Scott and AJ Gennaro performed as a duo at the Americana Series Morso in Gig Harbor, WA, invited by Michael O'Neill, the series founder, and a singer-songwriter of renown. The series invites the most prestigious and reputable songwriters from the USA and Europe to perform, and Hilary Scott was honored to be invited. Scott and Gennaro will be adding a Saint Louis venue (Americana Series St. Louis) to the Series circuit, and are very excited to be involved in the venue side of the series as well as the artist side.

In December, Hilary Scott was interviewed by Shoshona McCall of Indie Showcase, in a fun, two-hour in-depth interview - her music was aired and Scott and Gennaro performed a live song. The podcast is available for download here by clicking this link: Indie Showcase Podcast

Thursday, January 24th Hilary Scott and The New County Line perform at Lindberg's in Springfield, MO. Show time 8:00pm, $5.00

Friday, January 25th Hilary Scott and The New County Line perform at The Wine Rack in Poplar Bluff, MO. Show time 8:00pm

Saturday, January 26th Hilary Scott and The New County Line open for The Revivalists from New Orleans at Mojo's in Columbia, MO. Show time 8:30pm, $10

Friday, February 8th, Hilary Scott and The New County Line perform at Midwest Music Conservatory in Ballwin, MO. Show at 7:00 pm, $15.00 family, $10.00 couple, $6.00 individual