Transatlantic tunes...
The Americana Music Awards in Nashville. Emmylou sneaks a look at this week's Woman's Own whilst waiting for the band to tune up...Pic by Karen Miller.
I hope you got the chance to catch tonight. The Americana Music Awards were this week and tonight's show featured a great line up in Nashville.
Our guide to the awards show was Jim Lauderdale, pictured above with Emmylou Harris and Buddy Miller. His bluegrass album is out at the moment and is great, but tonight Jim gave us an exclusive first play of his next album which he's recorded with members of Elvis' famous TCB band.
My favourite bit of the show was our live session with Elizabeth Cook who was in our studios in Nashville's music row. Try and listen again to her performance. Her 'twangy' version of The Velvet Underground's Sunday Morning was outstanding.
Elizabeth Cook ( or to be more accurate, the back of Elizabeth Cook's head) in our Nashville studio earlier tonight.
Elizabeth talked about her upbringing, as the youngest of 11 half-brothers and sisters in rural Florida. Her parents were musicians and met while playing in bars. Her father learned to play bass in prison band while serving 11 years for running moonshine. Her mother, a singer and mandolin player from the hills of West Virginia, wrote Elizabeth's first songs, including "Does My Daddy Love The Bottle More Than He Loves Me.
As it states on her : "To say that Elizabeth Cook's background is like something out of a country song would be wildly underestimating the entire genre."
