Emily Scott Robinson

Emily Scott Robinson is an Americana singer/songwriter with a dulcet voice and a gift for artful small-town storytelling. Drawing on her own experiences and insights gleaned as a social worker, Robinson issued her debut album, Magnolia Queen, in 2016. Subsequent efforts Traveling Mercies (2019) and American Siren (2021) saw Robinson further refine her country, folk, gospel, and bluegrass-tinged narratives, which have elicited comparisons to roots music luminaries like Nanci Griffith, Brandy Clark, and John Prine.
Raised in Greensboro, North Carolina, Robinson took up the guitar at 13 and spent the next few years honing her instrumental skills. Early influences included James Taylor and the Indigo Girls, but it took seeing Nanci Griffith perform in 2007 to inspire the budding songstress to begin writing her own material. After graduating from Furman University, she relocated to Telluride, Colorado, and worked as an advocate for domestic violence and sexual assault victims. It was there that Robinson found her muse, with help from the community at Planet Bluegrass’ The Song School, a songwriting retreat in nearby Lyons. After releasing her debut album, 2016′s Magnolia Queen, Robinson and her husband toured the country in their RV. Bolstered by the experience and the response to the album, she began work on her sophomore effort. The resulting Traveling Mercies appeared in 2019 and garnered critical acclaim. Later that year, she was crowned the winner of The Telluride Troubadour Contest and performed on the festival stage, an opportunity she had coveted since moving to the Colorado mountain town. Robinson inked a deal with Oh Boy Records ahead of the arrival of her third long-player, American Siren. Released in 2021, the album featured some of her most relatable and poignant material to date, combining elements of her own life with a cast of colorful and complex imagined characters from all walks of life. ~ James Christopher Monger