Elizabeth Cook brings 'Great Television' to Dan's Silverleaf, her first Denton night since 2024

The country firebrand returns to the 245-capacity Industrial Street room on Monday, Nov. 30, with her first full-length album in six years in tow.

There are bigger rooms in North Texas than Dan's Silverleaf, but there aren't many that suit Elizabeth Cook better: a low ceiling, 245 people, and a Monday night crowd that came on purpose. Cook last played here on Aug. 11, 2024. She's coming back with a new record and a lot more to say.

Elizabeth Cook plays Dan's Silverleaf on Monday, Nov. 30, at 7 p.m. Tickets run $15–$125 through Prekindle, the venue's regular ticketer. The date went on sale Oct. 20. It's the third night of a short Texas-and-Oklahoma swing that, per her Apple Music tour listing, starts at The Blue Door in Oklahoma City on Saturday, Nov. 28, and stops at Main Street Crossing in Tomball on Sunday, Nov. 29. After Denton she heads east to Wilmington on Dec. 3.

What's changed since 2024 is the album. *Great Television* came out in August on Thirty Tigers, Cook's first full-length since 2020's *Aftermath*. Nashville.com reported the announcement, and Shooter Jennings produced the record. Cook cut it with her live band at Sunset Sound in Los Angeles, which should matter in a room this size. The songs were built to be played by the people who'll be on the Silverleaf stage.

The guests are worth knowing too. Turnpike Troubadours frontman Evan Felker sings on the first single, "Razorwire Wall," as Breaking and Entering noted when it dropped in July, and Wynonna Judd turns up on "The Easy Kind." The title comes from the opener, "Sunset Promenade," and its line about hurricanes making great television, which is about as Cook a joke as there is. 13th Floor's review singled out "Caldonia & The Love Convoy" and her cover of the Rolling Stones' "19th Nervous Breakdown," so expect at least a few left turns.

The songs were built to be played by the people who'll be on the Silverleaf stage.

The record also arrived with a companion film, *The Easy Kind*, a semi-fictional take on Cook's own life that Americana UK covered when it was announced. If the past two years of her story sound complicated, the album is her telling it directly, and a club show is the closest you'll get to hearing that without a filter.

Denton is a good town to hear it in. Dan's has spent years booking country, Americana and rock that's a little too rough or weird for the bigger Metroplex rooms. A glance at its Prekindle calendar shows the range, from the Denton Gospel Hour to tribute nights to a sold-out Old 97's show in 2025. Cook fits that mix: she's a country singer with a rock band's volume and a folk singer's eye for detail. The room's on Industrial Street, so dinner, a drink on the patio and a 7 p.m. start all fit easily into a Monday.

Fifteen months isn't a long gap by most standards, but she's coming back with a whole new set. Go early, stand close, and listen for the hurricane line.

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