Elizabeth Cook brings 'Great Television' to The Queen on Dec. 3

Her first album since 2020 came with a Shooter Jennings production credit, Wynonna and Evan Felker guest spots and a film co-starring David Letterman. Now it comes to Market Street.

Some records just play. Elizabeth Cook's new one also has a film attached, with David Letterman in the cast. On Thursday, December 3, Cook brings it to the Main Hall at The Queen, 500 N. Market St. in downtown Wilmington. Ticketmaster lists the show at 8 p.m..

That puts a December weeknight show on the calendar a little more than a month out. The Main Hall holds about 900, which is a good size for a songwriter whose sets have always leaned as much on her stories as on her band.

The occasion is Great Television, which Thirty Tigers released on August 14. It is Cook's first studio album since *Aftermath* in 2020, so the six-year gap is part of the story. Shooter Jennings produced it, and Cook cut it with her touring band at Sunset Sound in Los Angeles. That matters for a live show: the band you hear on the record is the one she built it with.

The guest list has some weight too. Wynonna Judd sings on "The Easy Kind," and Evan Felker of Turnpike Troubadours joins her on the single "Razorwire Wall." Neither guest is listed for the Wilmington date. The album's title comes from a line in the opening track, "Sunset Promenade."

Six years between records, cut live with her own band at Sunset Sound.

Reviewers have described the record as a mix of country, Americana and rock 'n' roll. Its songs cover media influence, addiction and stretches of American history that rarely get told, alongside Cook's own stories. The film released with it, *The Easy Kind*, is a hybrid of documentary and narrative directed by Katy Chevigny. Cook stars, and the cast includes Letterman (playing a version of himself), Karen Allen, Susie Essman and Charles Esten.

The room suits it. The Queen's Market Street building has been through venue-wide renovations and now has a modern music hall and an outdoor bar. The Main Hall is big enough to feel like an event and still small enough for the jokes between songs to land. For a writer whose material swings from barroom punch to quiet history lesson, that balance counts.

This one stops downtown, on a Thursday.

If *Great Television* has been in your car since August, this is the chance to hear those songs played by the band that recorded them. If you haven't heard it yet, start with "Sunset Promenade" and "Razorwire Wall" this week. Tickets are available through Ticketmaster. Check The Queen's own site for doors, age policy and any opener before you go.

See you on Market Street on the 3rd.

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