The Kentucky-based folk singer-songwriter Joan Shelley calls forth colorful sonic landscapes within her trademark economical songs. This is particularly evident on one of her latest tunes, “Wild Indifference,” in which her gently strummed patterns intertwine beautifully with embellishments from her co-guitarists, Nathan Salsburg on the acoustic and James Elkington on the electric. Shelley wrote the song on cello banjo (tuned C G F C F G) and later adapted it for her National Style O resonator guitar, in open-D tuning and with a third-fret capo. To get into this tuning, lower strings 1 and 6 down a step, to D; … Continue reading Watch Joan Shelley and Nathan Salsburg Play ‘Wild Indifference’