I recently became a Top 5 Charting Artist on the iTunes Country Charts! "It's A Girl" reached the #5 spot, while "Young Man's Six String" and "Don't Let This Song Hit You" reached #18 and #19 respectively. While this was unexpected and unannounced to us, I would like to thank all of my iTunes fans for listening to my songs and helping us with this accomplishments. Here's for more to come!
We are excited to share that I will be nominated for 3 Josie Awards at the Grand Ole Opry House in Nashville, TN on September 20! The Josie Music Awards is the largest music award show for independent artists of all genres. I have been nominated for EP of the Year with 'Dusty Jones', Music Video of the Year with 'Can I Hold Your Hand', and Country Male Song of the Year with 'Can I Hold Your Hand'. We will see you folks at the Opry Stage in September, where hopefully we will win one of them. Fingers crossed -- stay tuned ya'll!
I am excited to share that I am now working with the group of amazing folks at Appalachian Memory Keepers, a non-profit preserving the history and heart of Appalachia, for their new "Sundays with Schott" series!
We first worked together when I composed two original pieces of music for their "Money On a String" documentary, a historic tale of how green beans saved the population of Ashe County. Every Sunday evening, find me on their Facebook page playing an old gospel tune to close out our week with The Lord in our hearts!
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With his stone-country vocals, his prodigy-like songwriting, and his name building as a wildly entertaining live performer, Michael Schott is one of the hottest young guns taking back hard-core classic country, one song at a time.
Michael has been making efforts to be on camera, in front of people, and memorizing melodies in his hand since before he even knew how to hold a guitar pick. When he turned 11, his grandfather gifted him a $100 guitar and a small notepad to begin writing songs. By the next year, he showed remarkable rising talent as he made his national PBS debut performing two original songs and met his future producer, former Rascal Flatts member Tom Yankton, which would introduce him to Nashville, TN. During this time, he would write many songs on and off the road, including a composition that no one would have guessed would go viral in a few short years.
After 2 years of touring, releasing original material, and opening for acts like Parmalee, Sawyer Brown & Chris Cagle, he would take “Biscuits” to the studio as part of recording his EP “That’s My Honky Tonk” in October of 2025 with Tom as the head producer. A few short days before the single was released, a video of Michael promoting the song would go viral on social media platforms like Instagram, and the song gathered 3M+ views and 100K+ interactions in a matter of weeks. The song led to being recognized and featured on Nashville reality show “HOOKED” and signing a single deal with Struggle Jennings, being nominated for CCMA and Josie Music Awards, as well as making thousands of new fans nationwide that are joining Michael in bringing back what he has deemed “hardcore classic country,” a sound cultivated by his biggest influences; Merle Haggard, George Jones, Ray Price, John Conlee, etc. With a new tour and new music coming soon, and a fast-growing social media following, Michael Schott is marking his place by taking back real country music.