Michael Mueller
There's something otherworldly about Nora Brown.
She is an innovative, highly accomplished stylist and true artist who somehow taps into the very essence American Primitivism right at the point it intersects with the usually obscured introspective heart of Bluegrass.
She's more than a prodigy, she's an oracle. A time-traveller. Listening to her music is both transportive and transformative, such is her hypnotic precision and liquid feel.
Can she get better? I can't wait to find out.
Favorite track: Cumberland Gap.