Neilson hails from a family of singers, playing with Kitty Wells as a child and with Johnny Cash as a teen, and she’s clearly imbibed the spirit of those historied artists. Willie Nelson even appears ...

Where her last album, Kingmaker, was an object lesson in reinventing country to a feminist-percussive template, Neon Cowgirl, influenced by an extended US road trip, offers a steadier diet, mainly in ...