Country Homage Two Ways: Bahamas And Kelsey Waldon

“Meanwhile, closer to home, Kelsey Waldon followed her muses down some well-beaten old roads for her newest, There’s Always A Song. After five albums of original songs, two of them on John Prine’s Oh Boy Records label, the Kentucky native found herself drawn to collaborations and celebrations of the music that shaped her growing up. A session with S.G. Goodman, an old Kentucky friend who’s seen her own star rise in the indie country world, led to a feisty take on the Carter Family’s iconic “Hello Stranger.” Other sessions followed, leading to “Traveling The Highway Home,” first cut by Molly O’Day and Lynn Davis in 1951, sung here with Margo Price. An a cappella study of Jean Ritchie’s “Keep Your Garden Clean” opens the record, letting us hear Waldon’s lonesome voice in a new, vulnerable way.”

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