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 150 shows and a dozen summer festivals a year, and releasing seven albums of plainspoken, keenly observant verse along the way.

His latest collection, Tangle of Souls, comes packaged in a clothbound, hardcover book of road stories and ruminations, equal parts introspection and insurrection. The album 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 honors for the folk category in both the 2020 UK Songwriting Competition and the 2020 Great American Song Contest. He’s been back on the road full-time since January of 2022, living in a camper van named Roadetta. With his sweetheart Pamela Mae on upright bass and vocals, he has visited 43 states and 8 Canadian provinces, and broadcast solar-powered livestreams from the back of the van. In 2024 they’re touring Australia and North America, and recording an eighth album for release in the fall.

Photo by Colin Ferguson

• Scott Cook
  As good a modern folkie as we have these days. A voice perfect for the genre. An understanding beyond the norm.” No Depression Magazine
• Damn, this is a gorgeous album. Scott Cook’s voice – vocally and lyrically – is as clear-eyed, optimistic, and straightforward as ever… Tangle of Souls is the medicine we could all use right now. Rachel Cholst, Adobe and Teardrops
• He sings his heart and soul, and in doing so lets light flood into your own… Truly one of Woody Guthrie’s children. RnR Magazine