But don’t worry that she’ll spend Valentine’s Day without husband Chris Tyrrell.
All she has to do is look behind her to catch a glimpse of the drummer. A perk of her job is sneaking pining glances of him during the band’s first arena tour as headliners, called “Own the Night.”
Scott said she and her hubby will try to get in a dinner date sometime in between the group’s Grammy Awards appearance on Sunday and Utah’s concert date Tuesday. And she’s racking her brain trying to come up with a gift for him. “He’s so thoughtful,” Scott said. “So I’m always trying to one-up him. I have some wheels turning.”
But from talking with her, it appears that Scott and Tyrrell lie low when they get a chance. “We appreciate a good meal,” Scott said. “The craziest thing we’ve ever done is ...” She paused. “I can’t think of one.”
One bit of trivia is that the band’s 2011 crossover hit “Just a Kiss” was “completely inspired by my relationship with Chris,” Scott, 25, said. The song is arguably the most popular pro-abstinence song ever, with lyrics such as:
Just a kiss on your lips in the moonlight
Just a touch of the fire burning so bright
And I don’t want to mess this thing up
No, I don’t want to push too far
Just a shot in the dark that you just might
Be the one I’ve been waiting for my whole life
So baby, I’m alright with just a kiss goodnight
“We took it slow,” Scott said of her relationship, which began during Tim McGraw’s 2010 tour when Lady Antebellum opened and Tyrrell was drumming for another opening act, Love & Theft. “Our relationship is blessed because of that restraint.”
In addition to talking with Scott, we interviewed opening acts Darius Rucker and Thompson Square about Valentine’s Day and why the trio of Lady Antebellum wants crowds to “own the night.”

Darius Rucker • The 45-year-old Carolina native and former frontman for Hootie & the Blowfish said his wife won’t be with him on Valentine’s Day, but perhaps the crowd will show him some love.
Rucker is touring behind his second country album, “Charleston, SC 1966,” released in 2010 and inspired by country singer Radney Foster’s 1992 album, “Del Rio, TX 1959.” The name of Rucker’s album comes as a statement of identity — expressing where and when he was born — as well as a nod to Foster’s album, which ultimately inspired Rucker to be a country artist when Hootie & the Blowfish went on hiatus in 2008. “I call that the light bulb album for me,” Rucker said. “It blew me away the first time I heard it. I thought to myself, ‘I want to make a country album.’”
Rucker’s albums both debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard country charts when they were released, and he’s had five No. 1 country hits from those albums. Yet the baritone said he still plays his favorite songs from Hootie & the Blowfish, with recent set lists including “Let Her Cry,” ‘Only Wanna Be With You” and “Hold My Hand.”
“I love when the crowd’s happy,” Rucker said about dusting off and playing Blowfish songs. “When they hear the first few notes of [a] Hootie & the Blowfish [song], they’re happy.”
It all comes down to what Rucker calls his mission as an opening act: “My job as an opener is to have people remember that you were there.”

Thompson Square • Keifer Thompson, one-half of the husband-and-wife duo Thompson Square, is no help when asked what he got his wife, Shawna, for Valentine’s Day last year.
“I can’t remember that far, brother,” he said with a laugh. “I can’t remember what I had for breakfast.”
Thompson can be forgiven, given the dizzying success of the duo over the past year. The band’s single “Are You Gonna Kiss Me Or Not” was the most-played song on country radio in 2011, and is nominated for Best Country Song at this weekend’s Grammy Awards.
But it’s far from overnight success for the couple, who have been married for nearly 13 years and didn’t get signed until early 2010. That year, “I watched the Grammys and was jealous I wasn’t there,” Thompson said.
Now that the band has toured with Jason Aldean and is touring with Lady Antebellum, making some money along the way, Thompson said his wife doesn’t go without presents, and he tries to “be as romantic as I can.”
“I get tired of Hallmark holidays,” Thompson said. “I would rather get her flowers and candy on a random Tuesday.” But is his wife tired of the so-called Hallmark holidays? “She’s probably not as tired as I am,” he admitted.
Tired of Valentine’s Day? With Hillary Scott and her husband still in the honeymoon phase, there’s no chance of anyone forgetting Valentine’s Day on this tour.

Lady Antebellum with Darius Rucker and Thompson Square
When • Tuesday, Feb. 14, at 7:30 p.m.
Where • EnergySolutions Arena, 301 W. South Temple, Salt Lake City
Tickets • $25-$76.50 at SmithsTix.com