Need a credible female duet partner or a harmony vocalist to add an extra dash of mountain panache? Following the critical success of Welder and a star-making couch appearance on Letterman last year, Elizabeth Cook appears well on her way to becoming one of East Nashville’s most in-demand guest collaborators.
If you’ve been paying attention to recent non-FM country releases, you’ve probably been running into her everywhere.
Just in case you haven’t, though, here’s a quick roundup of the songs Cook has already shown up on in the first four months of 2012 alone. If she continues at this pace, we could have a whole album’s worth of material by the year’s end – whether she actually releases a new one of her own or not!
It’s a good time to be an Elizabeth Cook fan.
w/ Chuck Mead – “Pickin’ Wild Mountain Berries” (from Back at the Quonset Hut)
w/ Moot Davis – “Crazy in Love With You” (from Man About Town)
w/ Aaron Watson – “Leather and Lace” (from Hearts Across Texas)
w/ Chelle Rose – “Wild Violets Pretty” (from Ghost of Browder Holler)
w/ Todd Snider – “Little Bird” (from Time As We Know It)
Rainn Wilson Interviews Elizabeth Cook
Album Review: Elizabeth Cook – Welder
A freelance writer and humorist with an abiding love of country music, C.M. Wilcox's cutting, clear-eyed take on the genre has drawn the attention of Country Weekly, The Washington Post, and The Tennessean in the years since this site began. He lives near Sacramento and can be reached by email at CMW (at) countrycalifornia.com.
Yes, those are three magic words indeed. I almost buy a track featuring Elizabeth Cook before I even listen to it and have rarely regretted it, unless she’s not as prominently featured as I had hoped.
Not only can she sing, she puts on one hell of a show, she’s hot, she’s funny and she has the best radio show on ANY airways. I keep my Sirius/XM radio just to listen to her show “Aprin Strings” on Outlaw Country channel 60. Keep it up EC. You are the #1 in country music!
Couldn’t agree more. Reminds me of this great article from The Onion (the non-country music version of this site): http://www.theonion.com/articles/study-87-percent-of-movies-would-be-better-with-mi,19268/
The Onion (the non-country music version of this site)
Heh. Thanks for that, Mr. Dylan.