Karl Scott

Since early 2011, I have been filling my little car with my cajon, resonator, acoustic guitar, harmonica, mandolin, and capos, and journeying to find people and places I can lay all my heartfelt songs before. I have learned to become self-sufficient, including recording and hand crafting CDs. I even made a bed in my car so I could free up myself for opportunities - sleeping with my instruments in random darkened streets and wooded lanes all over Europe. 

I’m a contemporary troubadour, offering my songs in a way that allows our stories to mingle. I’m not trying to show off my music, rather use it as a way to connect. It’s about response, not payment. It’s about being moved, rather than entertained.

Everything I do is done for free, and with a hat laid down I ask ‘Pay What You Feel’. The wonderful thing is that people do give and I have been able to keep going. But it is not only money people respond with, and over the years I have collected so many beautiful, touching trinkets and offerings in response to what I have offered.

Limiting your life to a car or a cabin, eating the cheapest food you can find, sourcing your clothes from the boxes people are throwing away, and sleeping in a car where the windows ice up on the inside during cold months can be challenging. But it is worth it for all the stories I have found, all those beautiful colours that have mixed with mine, making my colour so much more vibrant and rich with each tour.