Scott Cooley's Blog

GRAND BLANC, MICHIGAN - The follow-up to 2018's Missing The Boat is out in web music services as of June 21st, 2020.  It has garner...

It’s cheap and easy for almost anyone to make music on a computer where they live, then put it on the web for people to stream.  Confusion a...

I recently got involved with the Sing Me A Story (SMAS) Foundation.  It's a website where they post stories that kids write, and song...

Scott Cooley:  Keeping it first-take fresh, and all-acoustic for no apparent reason? “Perfection has one grave defect: it is apt to be ...

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...