In 2007, Albertan songwriter Scott Cook quit his job teaching kindergarten in Taiwan and moved into a minivan. He’s made his living as a troubadour ever since, touring almost incessantly across Canada, the US, Europe, Asia, Australia, New Zealand and elsewhere, averaging a hundred shows and a dozen summer festivals a year, and releasing eight albums of plainspoken, keenly observant verse along the way. His 2020 collection Tangle of Souls spent two weeks at #1 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. Its second single “Say Can You See” was the second most-played song of 2020 on Folk Alliance International’s folk radio charts, and took top honours for the folk category in both the 2020 UK Songwriting Competition and the 2020 Great American Song Contest. Since early 2022 he’s been touring steadily with his sweetheart Pamela Mae on upright bass and vocals, visiting 45 States and 8 Canadian provinces as well as covering a lot of Australia, New Zealand and Western Europe. In 2026 they’re releasing Scott’s eighth album Troubadourly Yours with another big book of liner notes, equal parts memoir and manifesto. Fresh from the open road, these are sturdy, straight-talking songs that see the good in you.

“Whip-smart, bone-achingly lovely, socially committed songs presented with a bold, elegant directness evoking the very best of the folk music tradition.” —Notional Space