Scott McKeon

Scott McKeon is a British blues rock guitarist, songwriter, singer, and music tutor. He has issued four albums under his name, and worked as a session musician both in the recording studio and in live concert appearances. He is currently the guitarist in Sir Tom Jones' backing ensemble. McKeon has issued an online guide to guitar playing techniques, and manufactured his own bespoke guitar pedals and signature pickups.

Life and career He grew up in Southern England in a musical family. His father had been a guitarist for the Diplomats, who had opened shows in the early 1960s for both the Beatles and Gerry and the Pacemakers. The album included contributions from Robbie McIntosh and David Ryan Harris from John Mayer's band. From the age of 18, McKeon had been designing and manufacturing his own guitar fuzz pedal and signature pickups, modelled on his own guitar. He noted thereafter that "after opening a couple of shows for Joe Bonamassa he asked me what the pedal was and if I could make him one, before telling me I should sell them". McKeon's own SM Fuzz, was soon available and purchased and used by Gary Clark Jr. and Doyle Bramhall II among others, and McKeon later developed an all-new SM Octave Fuzz.

McKeon also created an online teaching aid for blues guitar players. The course starts at the early roots of R&B, and gives advice and tips to master more tricky techniques. The lessons include a range of interactive tabs and notation throughout, that can be slowed down and looped to aid understanding. There are 31 mini lessons, starting with acoustic guitar playing before moving through to electric, with subtle variations on a theme explored and explained.

McKeon's latest venture was recording the five track mini-album, Live at Real World Studios. The personnel were similar to those used on McKeon's album, New Morning, with Paul Stacey again acting as record producer. It was released on 8 April 2022.

Discography Albums Year Title Record label 2007 Can't Take No More WastedLion Records 2010 Trouble Provogue Records 2021 New Morning Self-released 2022 Live at Real World Studios Self-released