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#42 | Kelsey Waldon | White Noise/White Lines
Oh Boy Records
According to Steven Ovadia: “Waldon's comfort as a singer is impressive. She seems equally at home experimenting with pop as she is with the many country songs she features. There's never a feeling she's juggling personas. Instead, the energy across the album is of a talented singer-songwriter very much in touch with herself, and also able to fluently express that same self….It's convenient to latch on to the John Prine connection, because her sense of self is positively Prine-esque. There's a certain irony in discussing an artist's strength-of-voice in the context of the voice of another artist. Waldon stands on her own, though. There's a perfection to her vocals, but it's not a perfection that comes from overly polishing. Instead, the perfection comes from Waldon's willingness to reveal everything about herself to her audience, cracks and yodels be damned.”
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