Put on Welder, the new album from Elizabeth Cook, and right away you get a big, bracing splash of the South. Cook grew up in the country -- central Florida -- and was the youngest of 11 half-brothers ...

Elizabeth Cook admits her distinctive musical sound was influenced by two major forces: her legendary country heroes and her mother. But it wasn't until she began working on her upcoming album, ...

Singer-songwriter Elizabeth Cook often is compared to Loretta Lynn — though her lilting, unabashedly Southern voice recalls Dolly Parton. Like Lynn, Cook was embraced by Nashville early in her career, ...

It’s so easy to look at Elizabeth Cook’s porcelain skin, flaxen hair and fine bones and make assumptions that she was born into Nashville’s version of royalty-in-waiting. But push aside her supermodel ...

Her dad played upright bass in a prison band, and her mom also wrote and played music but worked full time in a thermometer factory in Florida. When the two — who each had five children — became ...

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