Having cut her teeth in bands, Amanda Cook emerged a solo bluegrass artist fully formed on her 2014 self-released debut album, One Stop Along the Road, which introduced her warm voice, bittersweet lyrics, and effervescent musicality. She followed it with a series of similarly constructed albums for Mountain Fever Records, including 2017's Deep Water, featuring fan favorite "Midnight 402," and 2022's Changes, which took Cook to number one on the Billboard Bluegrass Albums chart.
A native of Jay, Florida, Cook got her love of bluegrass from her father, who played the banjo. It ...