Only One Question for… Florida country singer Elizabeth Cook.
Is it important for you to defy the Nashville expectations of being a blonde, pretty country singer?
“I would be bored to death if I was just a country girl.
“To be blonde and 115 pounds, they expect certain things from you, so I really have to write twice as good and I have to be twice as visceral.
“There’s a sort of automatic discredit I get because of being blonde. I used to wear the most bizarre clothes I could get from the thrift store and I’d wear horn-rim glasses, but now I like to feel sexy and if people think I’ve nothing to say to them, that’s their loss.”
• Mr H presents Elizabeth Cook, The Dark Roads and The Troubadours in The Basement, City Screen, York, tonight, 8pm. Tickets: £7 advance; £9 door. Box office: 0871 902 5726.
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