On her latest release, The Balladeer, Lori McKenna offers her most uplifting and uptempo album in a catalog that spans more than 20 years. Her previous album, The Tree, was nominated for Album of the Year at the 2019 Americana Music Awards and received widespread critical acclaim, including landing on several Best of 2018 lists by Entertainment Weekly, Paste, Slate, The A.V. Club, the Washington Post and Rolling Stone. In 2016, McKennas album The Bird & The Rifle was nominated for three Grammy a...