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Scout Durwood
Many years before she made audiences laugh starring on MTV’s MARY + JANE and Oxygen’s FUNNY GIRLS, she knew that being different was her greatest strength. That free spirit defines her first album for Blue Élan Records, Take One Thing Off.
She went way outside-the-box, spending nearly five years as a draw in New York’s burlesque scene: named as one of the Huffington Post’s “20 Burlesque Stars to Know,” to boot. With this unforgettable experience under her belt, she traded the Big Apple for Los Angeles in 2012. Cast as the lead in the musical Original about the life of blues singer Janiva Magness, she caught the attention of producer Dave Darling [Def Leppard, Queen Latifah, Tom Waits, Brian Setzer] during a performance.
Throughout 2016, Durwood architected what would become Take One Thing Off with Dave riding shotgun in the producer’s chair. The 21-track album intermingles a hysterical standup set at underground Los Angeles comedy theater The Pack with songs “loosely mapped over my life in New York.”
With a music video planned for each song, Take One Thing Off undresses Scout’s musical world. Gleefully unveiled first, the handclaps, surf-inspired guitar, and impressive delivery of “Go Go” yield the ultimate “dancing in your underpants” anthem with a clever twist.
In between making Take One Thing Off, Durwood turned heads as a main character on MTV’s 2016 breakout Mary + Jane, executive produced by Snoop Dogg. The Hollywood Reporter claimed, “Durwood commits with gusto,” Vogue called her, “Brazen, brass,” and The Los Angeles Times lauded the series’, “sharp satirical observations about stoner culture, celebrity, the Silver Lake lifestyle, and female friendships.”
Ultimately, Durwood always does things on her own terms, and that’s why Take One Thing Off will undoubtedly connect.
