Mikaela Davis

Every universe begins with a singular point, a quiet corner where instinct speaks loudest, where existential imagination can stretch its limbs. For acclaimed harpist and songwriter Mikaela Davis' new album, Graceland Way (out now via Kill Rock Stars), that singularity was a hillside home in Chevy Chase Canyon, a spot nestled in Los Angeles County where time slowed, the world fell away, and Davis could create from a sense of warmth and deep attentiveness. The "canyon country" epic born of that care ties a neo-western future back to the lineage of Laurel Canyon, the mythos of Elvis's Graceland,...