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 ...

She’ll talk about the first time she played it, the emotional toll it took to record it, the metaphorical place from which it sprang — but Elizabeth Cook softly declines to go into details about the ...