Singer/songwriter and performer Scott Sean White will be releasing his new album Days Are Long on June 12th, 2026. As a touring singer/songwriter, he plays 120-150 shows a year, all over the country, and focuses on storytelling both in his songs and during performances, sharing his life experiences. His most recent previous album was titled Even Better On The Bad Days, which arrived in 2024.
Today, we’re very pleased to premier the song and accompanying video for “Piano For Sale”, which will arrive digitally this Friday, March 27th, 2026.
This is a song that, through conveying a lot of detail and specific emotion, nevertheless opens up a universal attitude of remembrance for audiences, inviting them to explore their milestones in life and the ways in which they connect them with places, and even objects. The setting of a church where a family has long worshiped, but which the speaker has not visited in many years, is bound to evoke memories for many people of all faiths and traditions, that feeling of the distance of the past, as well as confronting it again. But by connecting with the musical experiences, and life experiences that took place there, the speaker seems to relive their entire life. The focus of that connection is the longstanding beloved piano in a church, the accompaniment it’s provided to life’s joy and pain, and the idea of being able to take that instrument home to preserve those memories. Just as its songs have been saving songs, so it has become a saving instrument.
The details which White and his co-writers settled on, lovingly presenting the construction of the piano, the little, but impactful scenes from life which they convey in association with the piano, show a real ear for intensity and brevity in their storytelling. By incorporating the titles of Gospel songs, they also make “Piano For Sale” nearly a Gospel song itself. In fact, the piano might as well be viewed as a sacred object in the context of this song due to its long service and companionship through life. Musically, the song carefully runs parallel to a Gospel track, while remaining a more personal hymn. However, it breaks away into soaring vocals and intensity just like any good hymn towards its finale, leaving deep emotions behind key words.
The video which was made for “Piano For Sale” is incredibly fitting, and it would be hard to imagine a more relevant choice than filming in a small rural church with its own weathered and personality-laden piano, complete with the emptiness that can make any church so evocative. It’s evocative of all that has happened there, not just through one generation, but often through many generations. Scott Sean White acts as the voice of the song, but also as the focal point of the video, reliving the memories that flood us in familiar places, and in particular, the songs that have helped us survive. One of the final lines of the song, “Sing me back home”, hints at the importance of the place and the piano’s role, and that’s visually conveyed through the unassuming but lovely church in the video. It provides a sense of returning to simplicity, of reconnecting with one’s past, and one’s self.
Scott Sean White says about “Piano For Sale”:
Barrett (one of my co-writers on this song) had a show on a Saturday night about 10 years ago in Marion, Arkansas, which is not too far from where he grew up in West Memphis, Arkansas. Sunday morning, as they started to head back to Nashville on the bus, they came around a corner—and there was a church steeple off in the distance. Barrett told his tour manager, who was driving the bus, that that was the church where his dad was a preacher for 15 years when he was growing up, and the only thing that was in that church more than him during those 15 years (being a preacher’s kid) was that old upright piano in there.
Then he said, “If they ever sell that thing, I’m gonna buy it.” Well, that was Sunday morning. Then, on Monday morning, Barrett had a writing appointment with me and Terri Jo Box. He walked in and told us the story I just told you and said that it would be cool if we could write a song about that piano. He talked about how he used to sneak in on off nights every chance he got to play it and sing. And we talked about all the things it had played for—funerals, baptisms, and weddings. All he had was a title—“Piano for Sale.” And four or five hours later… we walked out with this song. It was a very good day.
On “Piano for Sale”, Brian Douglas Phillips contributed steel guitar, Alex Wright played piano, and B3 organ, Dave Brainard played bass, acoustic guitar, and electric guitar, Scott Sean White performed lead vocals, and Victoria Rudd contributed background vocals. It was tracked and edited by Dave Brainard, mixed by Matt Rovey, and mastered by Chris Henderson for Hendy Amps.
