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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Elizabeth Cook, "Welder": Funny and heartfelt, traditional and yet fully contemporary, this is the best country record of 2010. Of course, it's too country for the mainstream. A Florida native who now ...

Bo Bice, "3" (Sugarmoney/Saguaro Road). 2 1/2 stars. The BoDeans, "Mr. Sad Clown" (429 Records). 2 1/2 stars. Elizabeth Cook, "Welder" (Thirty Tigers/31 Tigers). 4 stars. Bo Bice, "3" ...

Elizabeth Cook kicks off her new album with "All the Time," a rolling and tumbling country song. Her twangy vocal and harmonies with Buddy Miller let you know she's locating herself just outside the ...

Elizabeth Cook is truly a living dichotomy -- how can someone so young obviously have the soul of a veteran performer from the most glamorous era of the Grand Ole Opry? When Elizabeth appeared earlier ...

Elizabeth Cook, "Welder": Funny and heartfelt, traditional and yet fully contemporary, this is the best country record of 2010. Of course, it's too country for the mainstream. A Florida native who now ...