Born in West Virginia and raised on the Canadian prairies, in 2007 Scott Cook quit his job teaching kindergarten in Taiwan to embark on the life of a full-time troubadour. Since then he’s toured almost incessantly across Canada, the USA, Europe, Asia, Australia, New Zealand and elsewhere, living out of campervans and backpacks, and distilling his experiences into empathetic, keenly observant verse. Scott has completed ten tours of Australia already, including talked-about performances at festivals like Woodford, Port Fairy, Cobargo, Candelo, Cygnet, Healesville, Mullumbimby, Newstead, Kangaroo Valley, Maldon, Illawarra, the National, Yackandandah, and Dorrigo in 2018 with his intercontinental stringband Scott Cook and the She’ll Be Rights. His seventh album Tangle of Souls was recorded in Australia and comes packaged in a cloth-bound, 240-page hardcover book of road stories and ruminations. The album spent two weeks at #1 back home on Alberta’s province-wide community radio network CKUA, and earned Scott his third Canadian Folk Music Award nomination, for English Songwriter of the Year. In 2025 he’s releasing his eighth album Troubadourly Yours, returning to Australia to form Scott Cook and the Little Rippers with Liz Frencham on upright bass and Justin Vilchez on mandolin, and recording his ninth album with more Australian musical friends. Featuring Cook’s originals like “Nariel Creek Waltz” and “The Lord Giveth (and the Landlord Taketh Away)” alongside Aussie songwriter Paul Wookey’s timeless classic “The Last Coal Train”, these are sturdy, straight-talking songs that see the good in you.

“He sings his heart and soul, and in doing so lets light flood into your own… He has a good eye for imagery, a gentle human touch, a wry sense of humour, a whole lot of integrity, a warm, rugged voice and a bunch of memorable lines… Truly one of Woody Guthrie’s children.” –RnR Magazine