'Welder' joins Elizabeth Cook's musical talents

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 neighbors, it wasn’t long before they formed a bar band, fell in love and married. As Elizabeth Cook, the singer/songwriter who has captivated fans with her sound and her radio persona, looked back on her parents and her beginnings, she admitted they are “kind of unusual.” But nothing in her life has truly been straightforward.