Elizabeth Cook kicks off satellite radio show
Monday, October 29, 2007 – Traditional country singer Elizabeth Cook will kick off a new weekly show, Apron Strings, on SIRIUS Satellite Radio's Outlaw Country channel in November.
Cook, who released "Balls," her fourth album produced by Rodney Crowell earlier this year, will host the five-hour show from Nashville starting Friday, Nov. 2 at 6 a.m.
Apron Strings will be a mix of music, recipes and household cleaning tips. Cook will bring a female perspective to the channel, where she will join Steve Earle, Mojo Nixon, Cowboy Jack Clement, Shooter Jennings and John Anderson.
Cook is about to launch a short tour of England with Jim Lauderdale in November.
More news for Elizabeth Cook
- 06/18/20: Cook considers the "Aftermath"
- 04/13/16: Cook seeks her "Exodus"
- 05/10/12: Cook visits Letterman, slates tour
- 09/27/11: Cook says hi to Craig Ferguson
- 08/15/11: Letterman interviews Elizabeth Cook
- 10/06/10: Elizabeth Cook releases video
- 03/11/10: Elizabeth Cook announces new CD
- 03/31/09: Elizabeth Cook joins Twitty musical cast
CD reviews for Elizabeth Cook
Elizabeth Cook is one of the new guard of artists (Sturgill Simpson, Margo Price, Ashley Monroe and anyone who's been a Drive-By Trucker, among them) who revere the history of traditional country, but also views it as a foundation for creating new sonic templates that fold in elements of pop, classic rock and anything else that might serve the song at hand. Cook's catalog to date has been a marvel of musical cross-pollination, but "Aftermath" is clearly her most defiantly rock-based work. ...
Elizabeth Cook's "Exodus of Venus" is a difficult record to sit through. Not because of the music, which is filled with high quality sounds from start to finish, but because of its painful content. For instance, when an album features a song with a title like "Methadone Blues," about a drug used to treat heroin addiction, you realize right away you're not in the realm of squeaky clean mainstream country. Cook has had some rough patches along the way, and "Exodus ...
On her latest release (the title is a nod to her father), Elizabeth Cook is as full of sass and vinegar as ever, and her hick valley-girl recitation El Camino ("If I wake up married, I'll have to annul it/Right now my hands are in his mullet"), the marital advice she offers up in Yes to Booty and the wry portrait painted by Rock n Roll Man will likely end up being the record's popular favorites, and for good reason.
But other songs may turn out to be more enduring: ...
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