Scott Cooley's Blog

We’ve never seen anything quite like this in our lifetimes.  As songwriters shelter in place, they are no doubt contemplating writing, recor...

It may be that playing an acoustic guitar instead of an electric is doing it the hard way, or a wimpy way, depending on how you look at.  E...

As an independent musician, you record at home and upload digital files to the cloud, and then when people buy/listen, you can get micro-f...

Thanksgiving is a time of abundance ‘round here, a time of overeating and napping and leftovering and bulking up to survive the winter a...

A relative asked me a simple question a while back, something along the lines of "what are your best songs?"  Fair enough, but s...

When I was in my early 20s, soon after learning a few chords on a guitar and hanging around other amateur musicians, I went to bars with t...

Did you know that my released albums contain 7 songs that feature the awesome accordion playing of my lovely wife Lenore? So far, they ...

A while back I decided I would do a songwriting/recording project that included revisiting/rewriting old previously-unreleased songs from my...