Discography
The following is a discography of all albums released by American singer-songwriter Scott Cooley, since his professional debut in 2004. Cooley's discography includes 12 studio albums, 1 free holiday covers compilation, and 12 video playlists that have been released worldwide in the form of CDs, album & single downloads, music videos, and digital streaming. His albums have been successful in Canada, Germany, Australia, and the United States, particularly in his home state of Michigan. The published catalog includes 157 total songs, 3 public domain covers, 2 original instrumentals, 154 originals, and 152 originals with lyrics, all of which were released on June 21st in even-numbered years.
Moon Dreams (2004)
Lakeside Landing (2006)
Drive Time Companion (2008)
Sense Of Belonging (2010)
A Cooley Christmas (2010)
Cherchez La Femme (2012)
Used To Be Good Looking (2014)
Rest Assured (2016)
Missing The Boat (2018)
Bluebird Days (2020)
Bluebird Days II (2022)
Lockdown Leftovers (2022)
Sunrise (2024)
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About This Discography
The album title links in the list above and table below take you to detailed individual pages for each album. The album pages include streamable songs, track listings, descriptions, genres, and artwork.
From those, you are then able to click song title links to view details about each individual song appearing on them. The song pages cover the lyrics, instrumentation, personnel, and stories behind the songs.
Amazon buy CD and streaming service buttons are on the album, song and store pages, but are also provided on the Store page.
Personnel and Instrumentation
Scott’s lovely wife Lenore Cooley has been credited with several appearances as a session musician performer on accordion, three on backing vocals, two on marimba, two on keyboard, one on flute, one co-written song, and as a contributor to the cover art.
Scott did everything else - songwriting (words and music), arranging, producing, performing of vocals & instruments, recording, engineering, mixing, mastering, CD art design, video production, direct distribution to Amazon, Google Play Music, YouTube Music, Bandcamp & more. Other stores (such as Apple Music and Spotify) have been distributed to via aggregators such as TuneCore and CDBaby.
Scott sings lead, background and harmony vocals, acoustic rhythm, lead and slide guitars, acoustic bass guitar, piano, organ, ukulele, mandolin, harmonica, marimba, drums and percussion (including djembe, bhodran, maracas, castanets, congas/bongos, tambourine, washboard, and cowbell), hand claps, finger snaps, and whistling.
Album & Song Pages
The recording location is always Scott's home studio Scott Cooley Music Productions (currently in Grand Blanc, Michigan), and the dates are always the two years leading up to the release from the last one. Each album's page in this site lists further details such as cover photo credits, and from each of those, there are subpages for each song which display lyrics and other details such as behind the music descriptions and international standard code numbers.
There may still be some actual discs floating around out there that are available for purchase. Refer to the CDs page for more information.