Nathan Salsburg

An acoustic fingerstyle guitarist of great elegance and craft, Louisville's Nathan Salsburg has built up an impressive résumé as a collaborator and sideman to artists like Joan Shelley, James Elkington, Bonnie "Prince" Billy (aka Will Oldham), and Jake Xerxes Fussell while quietly amassing his own catalog of solo releases like 2013's Hard for to Win and Can't Be Won and 2018's graceful instrumental guitar collection Third. Salsburg pivoted on Landwerk and Landwerk No. 2 by building new pieces from looped snippets of Yiddish and klezmer music off 78 rpm discs augmented with his...