Sadly I just saw Garnet Rogers post on Facebook. I was lucky enough to see Scott perform a number of times at coffeehouses and festivals in New England growing up. I also followed him on Facebook and enjoyed his perspective on politics.

From Garnet:

Just received crushing news that one of my oldest and most treasured friends, Scott Alarik has died.

We met back in the mid 70's and fell in with each other, having a similar taste in humour , whisky and music. He was one of the funniest, kindest, and gentlest men I have ever known, with an unwavering moral compass. He almost never talked about it, but he spent time in a federal pen during the Vietnam war, as a conscientious objector.
He wrote for the Boston Globe for many years, mostly as a music critic, which took an incredible amount of bravery in that he was himself a singer and writer.
His songs were great, his singing, inspired, and no one could touch him as a performer.
In later years he has been one of the sharpest, most incisive thinkers and commentators on American politics, whose posts here on Facebook have been a kind of pole star for me. Whenever I needed an issue explained and unravelled, Scott was the guy I turned to to make sense of it all, and find the right words when I couldn't.
He was funny and wise, and a bottomless well of human kindness.
I can't believe he's gone. What a damned hard day.