The Amanda Cook Band

Amanda Cook grew up in Jay, Florida, where her father played banjo throughout her childhood. In 2007 the two formed a bluegrass group called High Cotton, which gave her a first taste of performing. She then stepped out on her own with a solo album, One Stop Along the Road, and has led the band that carries her name for about a decade.

In early 2017 Cook moved to the mountains of Virginia and signed a five-album deal with Mountain Fever Records, where she also worked as an engineer. Her albums for the label opened with Deep Water and Point of No Return. Narrowing the Gap came next and made Bluegrass Today's Dave's Dozen list of the top albums of 2021. In 2022 the label named her its Chief Operation Officer.

Changes, the band's fourth studio album, debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard Bluegrass Albums chart in October 2022. Her band has featured Troy Boone on mandolin, Carolyne Van Lierop on banjo, Brady Wallen on lead guitar, Joshua Faul on bass and George Mason on fiddle, with Boone also singing and handling the emcee work.