Kelsey Waldon

A singer and songwriter whose music combines a contemporary lyrical outlook with a sound that harks back to country music of the 1950 and '60s, Kelsey Waldon sings like a honky tonk angel, with a voice that's sweet, spicy, and as authentic as the day is long. Her vocals and arrangements are informed by Nashville's past, but the stories she tells are rooted in the here and now, with a dash of down-home feminism and no-frills politics. Waldon's 2016 album, I've Got a Way, was a powerful set of tough retro-country, but it was the endorsement of songwriting legend John Prine that ...