Overview

Born in West Virginia and raised on the Canadian prairies, Scott Cook quit a job teaching kindergarten in Taiwan in 2007 to embark on the life of a full-time troubadour. Since then he's toured almost incessantly across Canada, the US, Europe, Asia, Australia, New Zealand and elsewhere, living out of backpacks and campervans, averaging over a hundred shows and a dozen summer festivals a year, and distilling his experiences into empathetic, keenly observant verse.

Scott has completed ten tours of Australia already, including talked-about performances at Woodford, Port Fairy, Cobargo, Candelo, Cygnet, Healesville, Mullumbimby, Newstead, Kangaroo Valley, Dorrigo, Maldon, Illawarra, the National, and Yackandandah folk festivals, and recorded his seventh album Tangle of Souls in Trentham, Victoria with an intercontinental stringband called Scott Cook and the She'll Be Rights.

In 2025 he's bringing the new album to Australia and reuniting with acclaimed Australian bassist and longtime collaborator Liz Frencham and other Australian comrades to record another album of roots and bluegrass originals as Scott Cook and the Little Rippers. As always, these are sturdy, straight-talking songs that see the good in you.