An album that made it on a lot of top ten/twenty lists for 2010 was Elizabeth Cook's Welder because it is a damn fine album.
While she could be easily classified as a country artist, this album isn't one of those slick, saccharine-laced, overproduced Nashville affairs, the kind of music Todd Snider refers to in his own song "Nashville" with the lines of "There isn't nothing wrong with rolling in the cashville./
There isn't nothing wrong that we can't fix in the mix."And Cook has some old fashioned country credibility because she started performing quite early in her life, and her father, well, he was sent to prison for moonshining.
Both songs for today are links to her playing at the studios of KDHX, a St. Louis-based community radio station that is one of finest radio stations on the planet. "Heroin Addict Sister" is a song that'll rip your guts out, so I've also decided to offer the more light-hearted tune of "El Camino" to stave off the depressive effects of the first song. Click on the titles to watch the videos.
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