Acoustic Soul: Scott Downes

CRS (Center for Remembering & Sharing) presents Acoustic Soul, featuring Atlanta-based singer/songwriter Scott Downes.

The modern traditionalist Downes (think Elliot Smith and Beck cruising the back roads of Deep South suburbia) will play a solo acoustic two-hour set.

A new series at CRS, “Acoustic Soul” celebrates the soulful art of the troubadour, the cowboy poet, the heart singer. Join CRS for a relaxed, intimate evening of acoustic music and song with some of the best singer-songwriters and instrumentalists around, dedicated to the purpose of elevating and inspiring the spirit.

Scott Downes writes songs. Songs about people. About emotions. Nostalgic reveries of regret about the hometown girl who got away. Beautiful melodies that circle and swirl around heartbreaking lyrics of love unfulfilled.

After leaving his hometown of Montgomery, Alabama at the age of 16 to study physics at Duke University, Downes shunned the life of scientific endeavor for one of literary study. At the same time, his interest in a diverse array of music ranging from delta blues to English and Irish ballads, funk and soul to traditional country. Writing for and headlining a number of bands in the Raleigh/Durham/Chapel Hill musical landscape, Downes discovered his own unique sound and lyrical style.

Currently working on an album to be released later this year, Scott performs at venues throughout Atlanta, the Southeast, and along the East Coast. His acoustic Americana plays comfortably alongside artists like Elliott Smith, Iron and Wine, John Mayer, and other modern traditionalists.