A Billboard Song Contest award winner, singer, and multi-instrumentalist with a home-based recording studio and publishing company who self-releases music on his independent Scott Cooley Records label, Cooley's music is available at Amazon.com (in the form of CDs) and Google Play Music, Spotify, Bandcamp, and Apple Music (in digital formats such as MP3) to name a few.

His most notable song is probably "Mackinac Island," which features a Caribbean feel, lighthearted humor, and a single swear word repeated many times. It's about a real tourist destination in Lake Huron that will not make sense to those who have not been there, and thus would be considered a "regional" favorite. It was from the "Lakeside Landing" album which combined several loosely-related styles of songs into a cohesive whole while helping to perhaps define a modern example of acoustic garage rock music while reflecting the culture of the Great Lakes region, including elements of trop rock, island, reggae, Hawaiian, Calypso, surf rock, sea shanty, folk punk and Motown .

Cooley is also known for writing "Smitten with the Mitten," a folk song about his home state of Michigan; and for writing "Coney," a song about a unique and popular eating experience there.

As of 2016, he has released 7 full-length albums of original material, on which he typically plays all the instruments (acoustic guitar, bass, drums, keyboards, percussion, marimba, harmonica), sings all the vocals, and handles all of the recording and production himself. For more information, see http://www.scottcooley.com