St. Lucia Looking back on my interviews over the past 12 months, the first thing that surprised me was just how busy I stayed: nearly 50 interviews of 10 minutes or longer, about a dozen more than 2015, which had seemed much busier. Interviewing artists is just one part…

Welsh singer-songwriter Betsy has her feet firmly entrenched in her country’s past, while her eyes are looking at the possibilities in front of her. The mononymous artist, who recently signed a record deal with Columbia Records, was raised on a livestock farm in remote, rural Wales. At first, her…