Music Pick: Jimmy Scott

When he performed "The first time ever I saw your face" at this Clint Eastwood music tribute in 2009, singer Jimmy Scott was already 83 years old and in his 61st year as a stunning, magnificent balladeer. Alive toda...y at 87, he may still be performing but his website lists his last concert date as July 22, 2011. Anybody know?

Scott's career was derailed more often than a runaway freight train and he worked menial jobs for years till being re-discovered in the late 1990's to our great fortune as the depths of his art only increased.

Singing as slow as he does rings the upmost emotion and feeling out of a lyric but may be the toughest singing skill to master. Scott won the title in the 1940's and still hasn't relinquished it. When he sings no more it will be retired.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EwnBOIH7PkE