Since signing to John Prine’s Oh Boy Records in 2019, Kelsey Waldon has established herself as a defining talent among her generation of country musicians, penning homegrown, lived-in songs that veered from immensely personal (like 2019’s “Kentucky, 1988”) to societal critiques (“Lived and Let Go” from that same year). It is this impressive and evocative skill set as a songwriter, which made her worthy of being a label mate to such a towering figure in the genre.
Like so many of us, Walden has gone through a series of transformations in the last six years; having stared down the stillness of the pandemic years – and the death of Prine at the start of the pandemic – having steadily grown her profile as a musician, and also quitting drinking alcohol towards the end of 2020.
