Rolling Stone: The 25 Best Country and Americana Albums of 2022: #13 Kelsey Waldon, ‘No Regular Dog’
“The Kentucky songwriter mixes bits of Bobbie Gentry, Loretta Lynn, and her hero John Prine in No Regular Dog, her first album recorded outside of her home state. Waldon decamped for L.A. to cut the LP with producer Shooter Jennings, and the change of scenery serves her well. The album is an immersive listening experience, with woozy strings and forlorn pedal steel intertwining in songs like the ominous title track. Regardless of where it was recorded, or by whom, it’s Waldon’s songwriting and warbling voice that ties it together. In ‘History Repeats Itself,’ she takes stock of a world in crisis and wonders if it’s all too much to bear. ‘Politicians pushin’ pills wanna keep me sedatеd,’ Waldon sings, before delivering advice in her own unique vernacular: Find your faith in somewheres else."
