Great Television

For more than two decades, Elizabeth Cook has operated outside the machinery of mainstream country while staking her claim as one of American music’s most vital storytellers.
 
On her new album Great Television, the Florida-bred singer songwriter maps the hidden corners of the American experience with both daring self-revelation and fierce curiosity, imbuing every song with her singular balance of soul and sensitivity and unshakable grit.
 
Her first new project since 2020’s Aftermath, the Nashville-based musician’s eighth studio LP arrives alongside the theatrical release of The Easy Kind - a hybrid documentary/narrative film about her life as an artist fundamentally resistant to conformity, tracing a turbulent journey that began with singing on bar stages with her parents’ band at just four years old. Taken together, Great Television and The Easy Kind reaffirm the extraordinary legacy Cook has forged by following her own vision wherever it leads.
 
Produced by Shooter Jennings (Tanya Tucker, Turnpike Troubadours) and recorded with Cook’s live band at Sunset Sound in Los Angeles, Great Television marks a commanding new addition to a formidable catalog including triumphs like 2007’s Balls (a major creative breakthrough featuring her Americana Music Awards-nominated, career-defining anthem “Sometimes It Takes Balls to Be a Woman”), 2010’s Welder (made with legendary producer Don Was and selected for Rolling Stone’s list of the year’s best albums), and 2016’s Billboard-charting Exodus of Venus (one of several of Cook’s LPs glowingly reviewed by seminal rock critic Robert Christgau).