For immediate release from Scott Cooley Records in East Lansing, Michigan:
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Scott Cooley’s latest record, Used To Be Good Looking, is the
6th studio album he’s self-released on his independent label. Available in CD format from Amazon, and
download from iTunes, Google Play, Bandcamp, and Spotify on June 21st,
2014, it contains 14 new original songs.
The first half of the record is a little more mainstream, poppy, and
commercial with shorter rock songs, whereas the last half finds Scott venturing
into longer and more serious songs with hints of jazz, bluegrass, folk, and
blues. Fans of the all-acoustic
instrumentation, catchy melodies, and outstanding lyrics on his past releases
will not be disappointed.
As far as live public performances go, he entertained
attendees at Lamb’s Retreat for Songwriters in 2012 at the Birchwood Inn in
Harbor Springs as a solo act, and also headlined the annual Schmoopiepalooza
Festival in 2013 at Pickerel Lake in northern Michigan as a duo with his lovely
and talented wife Lenore on accordion. Scott’s
recent experiences leading up to this release have included a few get-togethers
with family and friends, a few days spent sailing, a few days spent skiing,
walking the new golden retriever, Levi, and regular date nights with Lenore. Essentially a non-performing songwriter and
recording artist, Scott wrote and recorded these songs over the course of a few
weekends, and an hour or two on a few different weeknights sporadically in his
basement “man cave” spare bedroom studio since his last release.
The Scott Cooley band has in the past included wife Lenore as
guest studio musician (accordion, keyboard, marimba, flute, background vocals)
and spiritual producer Lucky Cooley (sadly, he’s now in dog heaven). This album is different in that on the first
13 songs, there’s no one else on it, but Scott finally convinced Lenore to play
right-hand-only accordion on the final track, “Smitten with the Mitten,” and
thanks to her contribution, it’s a strong candidate for consideration of being
designated as a state song for the state of Michigan. Levi wasn’t quite up to speed yet on
production advice, so as a solo artist, one-man band, and do-it-all-yourselfer,
Scott wore all hats involved this time, recording himself playing guitar, bass,
marimba, harmonica, drums, percussion, and singing the vocals in East
Lansing.
Scott’s fan interactions, aside from the aforementioned live
performances, have been limited to only one or two announcements on his
website, and several posts to his blog about his experiences with songwriting
and music recording. One fan chimed in
with excitement upon discovering the song Mackinac Island from the 2006
Lakeside Landing album, and her intention to share with her college friends and
family members in Michigan, and sure enough, the online MP3 downloads increased
for that song again. Another fan reached
out to Scott to note that he loved the last album, Cherchez La Femme, and
having been on hiatus from being a musician himself, felt inspired to get back
into it.
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