Great Television
Elizabeth Cook
Elizabeth Cook’s Great Television is an 11-song country-rock and Americana album that combines a full-blooded live-band sound with some of Cook’s most vivid storytelling. Released in August 2026 and produced by Shooter Jennings, it is her first studio album since 2020’s Aftermath. Recorded at Sunset Sound in Los Angeles with her touring group, the record favors raw guitars, twang, rock-and-roll momentum, and direct performances over Nashville polish. The opening “Sunset Promenade”—from which the title is drawn—uses the image of hurricanes as “great television” to examine media spectacle, inner confinement, and the wish for enduring companionship.
Across songs such as “Girls of Atomic City,” “Thiokol Tripwire,” “Okeechobee Mud,” “Razorwire Wall,” “The Easy Kind,” “In Your Veins,” and “Feverfew,” Cook connects personal damage to overlooked corners of American history. “Girls of Atomic City” recognizes the women employed at Oak Ridge during the Manhattan Project, while “Thiokol Tripwire” revisits shadows of the Vietnam era; elsewhere, the record considers incarceration, fame, love, identity, self-destruction, and resilience. Guest appearances by Evan Felker on “Razorwire Wall” and Wynonna on “The Easy Kind” deepen its roots-music character, while Cook’s cover of the Rolling Stones’ “19th Nervous Breakdown” fits naturally into the album’s nervy, rebellious spirit. Great Television is both a personal reckoning and a widescreen travelogue of the American experience—plain-spoken, tough, compassionate, and frequently electrifying.
Elizabeth Cook’s Great Television is an 11-song country-rock and Americana album that combines a full-blooded live-band sound with some of Cook’s most vivid storytelling. Released in August 2026 and produced by Shooter Jennings, it is her first studio album since 2020’s Aftermath. Recorded at Sunset Sound in Los Angeles with her touring group, the record favors raw guitars, twang, rock-and-roll momentum, and direct performances over Nashville polish. The opening “Sunset Promenade”—from which the title is drawn—uses the image of hurricanes as “great television” to examine media spectacle, inner confinement, and the wish for enduring companionship.
Across songs such as “Girls of Atomic City,” “Thiokol Tripwire,” “Okeechobee Mud,” “Razorwire Wall,” “The Easy Kind,” “In Your Veins,” and “Feverfew,” Cook connects personal damage to overlooked corners of American history. “Girls of Atomic City” recognizes the women employed at Oak Ridge during the Manhattan Project, while “Thiokol Tripwire” revisits shadows of the Vietnam era; elsewhere, the record considers incarceration, fame, love, identity, self-destruction, and resilience. Guest appearances by Evan Felker on “Razorwire Wall” and Wynonna on “The Easy Kind” deepen its roots-music character, while Cook’s cover of the Rolling Stones’ “19th Nervous Breakdown” fits naturally into the album’s nervy, rebellious spirit. Great Television is both a personal reckoning and a widescreen travelogue of the American experience—plain-spoken, tough, compassionate, and frequently electrifying.
Great Television
Elizabeth Cook
Elizabeth Cook’s Great Television is an 11-song country-rock and Americana album that combines a full-blooded live-band sound with some of Cook’s most vivid storytelling. Released in August 2026 and produced by Shooter Jennings, it is her first studio album since 2020’s Aftermath. Recorded at Sunset Sound in Los Angeles with her touring group, the record favors raw guitars, twang, rock-and-roll momentum, and direct performances over Nashville polish. The opening “Sunset Promenade”—from which the title is drawn—uses the image of hurricanes as “great television” to examine media spectacle, inner confinement, and the wish for enduring companionship.
Across songs such as “Girls of Atomic City,” “Thiokol Tripwire,” “Okeechobee Mud,” “Razorwire Wall,” “The Easy Kind,” “In Your Veins,” and “Feverfew,” Cook connects personal damage to overlooked corners of American history. “Girls of Atomic City” recognizes the women employed at Oak Ridge during the Manhattan Project, while “Thiokol Tripwire” revisits shadows of the Vietnam era; elsewhere, the record considers incarceration, fame, love, identity, self-destruction, and resilience. Guest appearances by Evan Felker on “Razorwire Wall” and Wynonna on “The Easy Kind” deepen its roots-music character, while Cook’s cover of the Rolling Stones’ “19th Nervous Breakdown” fits naturally into the album’s nervy, rebellious spirit. Great Television is both a personal reckoning and a widescreen travelogue of the American experience—plain-spoken, tough, compassionate, and frequently electrifying.
Elizabeth Cook’s Great Television is an 11-song country-rock and Americana album that combines a full-blooded live-band sound with some of Cook’s most vivid storytelling. Released in August 2026 and produced by Shooter Jennings, it is her first studio album since 2020’s Aftermath. Recorded at Sunset Sound in Los Angeles with her touring group, the record favors raw guitars, twang, rock-and-roll momentum, and direct performances over Nashville polish. The opening “Sunset Promenade”—from which the title is drawn—uses the image of hurricanes as “great television” to examine media spectacle, inner confinement, and the wish for enduring companionship.
Across songs such as “Girls of Atomic City,” “Thiokol Tripwire,” “Okeechobee Mud,” “Razorwire Wall,” “The Easy Kind,” “In Your Veins,” and “Feverfew,” Cook connects personal damage to overlooked corners of American history. “Girls of Atomic City” recognizes the women employed at Oak Ridge during the Manhattan Project, while “Thiokol Tripwire” revisits shadows of the Vietnam era; elsewhere, the record considers incarceration, fame, love, identity, self-destruction, and resilience. Guest appearances by Evan Felker on “Razorwire Wall” and Wynonna on “The Easy Kind” deepen its roots-music character, while Cook’s cover of the Rolling Stones’ “19th Nervous Breakdown” fits naturally into the album’s nervy, rebellious spirit. Great Television is both a personal reckoning and a widescreen travelogue of the American experience—plain-spoken, tough, compassionate, and frequently electrifying.