scott cook

Scott Cook’s “Troubadourly Yours” is his eighth album, six years in the making, deeply autobiographical, and echoing the spirit of Woody Guthrie. Recorded in Edmonton, it moves from union solidarity to family history and from a critique of consumerism to a call for inclusivity and embracing diversity – this truly is a brilliant sign-off of the times.

A folksinger on Gabriola Island, British Columbia named Bob Bossin has got a bunch of folk heavyweights together to cover Scott Cook’s ‘Pass It Along’ for Earth Day, including Peggy Seeger, Leon Rosselson, Pharis & Jason Romero.

At the end of the Scott Cook’s booklet for ‘Further Down the Line’ there is a preamble memoir in which he quotes Bruce Cockburn “Kick at the darkness ‘till it bleeds daylight.” This album kicks hard.

The ragged quintet comprised of fiddler Alastair Caplin, singer-songwriters Scott Cook, Nathan Ball and Jez Hellard and double bass maestro Nye Parsons have turned the domestic gig into something of an artform as they demonstrate on ‘Live at the Ley’.