For Monday, August 8: I Love You This Big

Scotty McCreery is AI's newest winner. And he totally deserved it. Actually in our household it was such a tie between him and Lauren Alaina that we let the rest of America duke it on the voting and just sat back and watched the results.
We have loved Scotty since he and his deep bass appeared in the audition room for the AI judges about a year ago. We are so impressed with him as a person. To have the voice and the maturity that he does at his age just blew us away! Not to mention that Scotty recognizes that while he may have come in first on AI he's actually second...click here to see what I mean.
This is Scotty's first of what I feel is to be many videos. He is likeable, his voice is soothing (very Josh Turner like except he has made it his own), and he's pretty stinking cute! :) He's got endurance for sure, unlike some of the past AI winners.
Yay for Scotty! :)

I Love You This Big

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