Scot Sax’ multi-faceted career started with a bang when his song ‘I Walked’ became a radio hit with his band Wanderlust (RCA) in ‘95. It was the #1 most requested song on rock stations across the country. That year ended with Wanderlust opening for The Who. After signing a publishing deal with Warner/Chappell in Los Angeles, Sax went on to write and perform “I Am The Summertime”  for the film American Pie (awarded a Gold Record) and form indie-darlings FEEL (Curb Records). In 2005 he co-wrote the Grammy-winning Faith Hill/Tim McGraw duet “Like We Never Loved At All”. 

Upon hearing Scot’s song “What Gets In The Way”, Robert Plant, Alison Krauss and T-Bone Burnett asked he and singer Sharon Little to be their opening act for their Raising Sand Tour in 2007. Sax worked with Don Was in 2009 on Little’s 2nd album. 

Scot taught a songwriting course at University of The Arts in Philadelphia for several semesters 2010/2011. 

From there Sax went on to dive into another passion of his: film. He released the documentary Platinum Rush: a Film by a Songwriter starring Lisa Loeb, Ron Sexsmith and Oliver Wood. He also created onstage videos for Lucinda Williams “Car Wheels On A Gravel Road” tour. 

2019-2023 

Now living in Nashville with his wife and two daughters, Scot’s latest songs are appearing on albums by AJ Croce, Steve Poltz, Nicki Bluhm, Aaron Lee Tasjan and Scot even reunited with his band Wanderlust for their critically-acclaimed “All A View” album in 2021.  

2024

Scot Sax co-wrote and produced Lilly Hiatt’s current radio single “The Hidden Day”.

Scot Sax Releases New Solo Album, 

Modest Cathedral

Award-winning songwriter, videographer, and filmmaker focuses on the lyrics, turns up the

amplifiers, and delivers a rock & roll gem

Nashville, TN (July 1, 2024) — Modest Cathedral marks the latest release from rock & roll lifer

Scot Sax. Arriving on the heels of co-writes with artists like Lily Hiatt (“Hidden Day”)  and Aaron Lee Tasjan (“Sunday Women”, it's an urgent collection of electric guitars, power-pop hooks, and heavy groove, written by a longtime creative who's spent three decades onstage and in the writing room.

"I wanted to make a record quickly — so quickly that it's a timestamp of where I am, right now,"

says the Grammy-winning songwriter. Inspired by everything from the MC5's primal rock & roll to hip-hop's percussive pulse, he put together a power trio and recorded the album in just two days.The musicians worked rapidly, speeding up the tempos of Sax's songs and capturing Modest Cathedral's songs with a series of live-in-the-studio performances. The result is a record that's raw,rough-edged, and real.

"The music and performances were not labored over, but I did focus on getting the lyrics right," Sax explains. "I didn’t want to be all, 'I'm a word guy and I'll just let'm fly out however they fly out, and it'll be great.' That’s where the modest takes over and the cathedral has to go sit in the corner.

"Modest Cathedral takes its name from a type of reverb often used in film editing. It's a world Sax knows well. In addition to maintaining dual music careers as a solo artist and songwriter, Sax has also established himself as a videographer and filmmaker, working with artists like Malcolm Holcombe and Lucinda Williams along the way. Playback Is A Bitch, his most recent short film, was an official selection for the Toronto Short Film Channel Festival, the South Film and Arts Academy Festival as well the winner for Best Director at the 2020 Short To The Point Festival.

Meanwhile, he also hosts and produces Live From Little Hollywood, a music-focused sketch variety TV show that shines a light on the artistic community of his adopted hometown, Nashville. With Modest Cathedral, though, Scot Sax refocuses that spotlight on himself, turning everything fromthe songs' individual cover art — which all feature photos of Sax as a child, striking his best "album cover" poses long before his first band, Wanderlust, signed with RCA and opened for The Who — to the songs themselves into rock & roll rallying cries.