Tami Neilson’s career is long and storied. The short version is that she began with a 1990s Canadian family band (opening for Kitty Wells, aged 10!), moved to New Zealand and became a country star there, then, over the last decade, has been “discovered by” and worked with all manner of US artists, ranging from Ashley McBryde to Willie Nelson.
Her latest album is named in honour of the signage on Nashville Broadway, “the patron saint of heartbreak in downtown”, as she puts it. Less cheekily characterful than her output of recent years, it still has much to recommend it.
Where her last album, Kingmaker, was an object lesson in reinventing country to a feminist-percussive template, Neon Cowgirl, influenced…

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