Elizabeth Cook
Sunday January 16
The Black Box, 2.00pm
Tickets: £10.00
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Elizabeth Cook’s back story reads like something out of a country
song itself. The youngest of 11 half-brothers and sisters, she grew up
in rural Florida where her musician parents met while playing in
local country bars.
Her father learned to play upright bass in a Georgia prison band
while serving 11 years for running moonshine. Her mother, a singer
and mandolin player from the hills of West Virginia, wrote her
daughter’s first songs, including Does My Daddy Love The Bottle
More Than He Loves Me, and had Elizabeth singing on stage at 4
years old.
Described by Nanci Griffith as “this generation’s Loretta Lynn”, it
takes a certain tenacity to meld smart attitude with classic tradition,
the credibility of a life lived with genuine hillbilly passion, and the
integrity to write an acclaimed cache of uncommonly cool songs.
One of our festival highlights, her mixture of sassy humour,
emotional honesty and a killer voice is impossible to resist.