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, ...

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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, ...

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 ...

She’ll talk about the first time she played it, the emotional toll it took to record it, the metaphorical place from which it sprang — but Elizabeth Cook softly declines to go into details about the ...

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 ...