Elizabeth Cook
Best Country Album in Nashville 2026: Elizabeth Cook, Great Television
For more than 20 years, Elizabeth Cook has stood as one of Nashville’s most revered singer-songwriters. Great Television, the Americana troubadour’s eighth studio album, is her magnum opus. The Shooter Jennings-produced masterwork finds Cook deftly blending devastating personal accounts (“Sunset Promenade,” “Okeechobee Mud”) with overlooked stories from throughout the 20th century (“Girls of Atomic City,” “Thiokol Tripwire”). The album’s centerpiece is the show-stopping “The Easy Kind,” and it reflects on Cook’s own career and how female artists (“Mindy [McCready] … Whitney, Britney and Courtney Love” among them) are all too often used and discarded by the music industry.
