American Routes Shortcuts: Kelsey Waldon
Country singer Kelsey Waldon grew up in the Ohio River bottoms of Ballard County, Kentucky, a place called \“Monkey’s Eyebrow,\” where her father runs a hunting lodge and her mother’s family has been farming for generations. Kelsey started writing songs at a young age, went to Nashville at nineteen, played in bars, studied songwriting and later released noted albums that landed her on stage at the Grand Ole Opry. It was there with the now late songman John Prine that she agreed to join his label, Oh Boy Records, in 2019, the first artist Prine had signed in fifteen years. Kelsey counts...