Click on link at bottom of page to preview Warmth & Beauty. North Carolina singer-songwriter Thad Cockrell hails from the old school of country music, the days before Nashville went pop. "There's no 'alt' in my country," says Cockrell, who possesses a high-lonesome, wistful tenor voice. His first exposure to the pure country sound came from listening to folks like Merle Haggard and George Jones on commercial radio.