COUNTRY OUTLAW ELIZABETH COOK
Radio host plays at Revelry Room tonight
Elizabeth Cook’s day job is on-air host of “Elizabeth Cook’s Apron Strings” on Sirius XM Radio’s Outlaw Country channel.
If you don’t know her voice on the radio, maybe you’ve heard her on TV: She’s a cast member of Adult Swim’s animated series, “Quidbillies.” She also made four appearances on the “Late Show with David Letterman.”
After work, you’ll find her on the road playing gigs as a country music singer — tonight at Revelry Room for a 9 p.m. show. She’ll be playing music from her latest of six albums, “Exodus of Venus.”
Cook’s life story sounds like the storyline of a country music song. She’s the daughter of a hillbilly player and moonshiner dad who honed his skills on the upright bass playing in the prison band.
After dad served his time, he and Cook started playing together. By age 9, she had her own band. She graduated from Georgia Southern University in 1996 with degrees in accounting and computer information systems, and moved to Nashville to pursue music.
She released “The Blue Album,” a compilation of demo songs from her job as a studio singer, in 2000. Her 2010 album, “Welder,” was nominated for Album of the Year in the 2011 American Music Awards. She was named Outlaw Female in the 2014 Ameripolitan Music Awards and nominated as DJ of the Year in the 2015 and 2016 Ameripolitan Music Awards. She’s working on her seventh album, which she expects to release in fall 2018.
The singer says she doesn’t write songs to fit a genre, but to “keep it real.” “It’s an imperfect balancing act; a lesson in compassion and grace and tolerance.”