Some kids grow up listening to musical legends on albums and radio. Country music singer, Scarlett, grew up listening to them just offstage, “I didn't know anything else!” she says. “My father, Bob Wootton, played lead guitar for Johnny Cash from '68 until John's retirement in '97. My mother, Vicky Cook, played with a blue-grass gospel group, called the Sullivan Family, when she was a teenager and later went to work for the Carter Family. That's how she met my Dad.”

“When I was small, I would fall asleep in my mother’s guitar case, listening to her play. At the age of three, I claimed to have written the song ‘Ring of Fire’ with June Carter Cash.” She laughingly adds, “Just to clear the air with those that I might have told that to, I didn't have anything to do with the writing of ‘Ring of Fire’. I can remember being four years old, playing with my cousin, Wes, pretending that we were on our tour bus going to a show.”

“I moved around a lot as a kid and was extremely shy, so music was my friend. Instead of playing with the other kids, I would shut myself up in my room reading books, magazines, and CD covers. Basically just soaking up everything I could about my favorite artists and living in my own little fantasy world where I, too, was up for CMA Female Vocalist.. I can't remember a time when I wasn't singing. I didn't know that there was anything other than music.”

Her play-acting practice paid off big time when she was nine years old. One night in Branson, Missouri, she was called on stage with June Carter Cash and Johnny Cash. From then on, there was never any doubt what Scarlett would do. “That world wasn't strange to me. I have other family members that play too; several uncles play, both of my grandfathers played, and one of my uncles and his family have a Southern gospel group that tour a lot in the deep south, the Joe Cook Family.”

Another milestone was soon to occur in Scarlett’s life that helped shape her future, “I was thirteen years old when my only sibling was born and I always wanted to be a good role model for her. If God hadn't sent her into our lives, I might not have been the teenager that I was, thus not being the woman that I have become.”

For the last four years, she performed the Tennessee Three, also known as The Johnny Cash Band. “I have been so fortunate with my career thus far. I have performed on live TV, such as the Jimmy Kimmel Show, etc. I have walked red-carpet movie premiers and have toured in five different countries. I have been blessed,” she says.

Scarlett released her first album, which she describes as, “traditional country to the extreme.” She says, “It was basically me paying tribute to the music that I grew up on and still love so much.” She is now working on her second album when she plans to be more contemporary and written entirely by her. “I am currently taking a little time off from the heavy tours. In the meantime, I am playing here in Vegas whenever I can. In the past month, I have played the House of Blues four times and have a couple gigs coming up at the Monte Carlo.”

The striking beauty is thriving following in her familial destiny, “I love to close my eyes and let a melody take me to another place for three minutes and fifty-six seconds. Music is just so universal. It makes people happy. When I am up on stage singing and I look out and can see it all over somebody's face that they know exactly what I am singing about - that's why I do it. As long as I can say, ‘I'm truly happy with my life,’ I am willing to let the rest be a surprise.”