A genre-bending folk singer/songwriter with a strong independent streak, Erin McKeown released her first album, Monday Morning Cold, as a college student in the late '90s. With a silvery vocal tone and proficiency on multiple instruments, she went on to perform on albums by 10,000 Maniacs, Thea Gilmore, and Peter Mulvey, to name a few, while releasing a steady stream of solo LPs that covered and combined folk-rock, jazz-pop, blues, and protest songs. Following her eighth studio album, 2013's Manifestra, McKeown ventured into musical theater, writing music and lyrics for the of...