Ten Sleep ranchers keep country-folk music young

TEN SLEEP – “Music has always come natural to me,” said Lacy Nelson from her home in Ten Sleep. “Some people are naturally good with horses, some are natural writers, I guess I’ve always had music.”

On her family’s ranch in the Nowood valley, Nelson learned piano before she even started school, playing it all through her childhood, until discovering the guitar in her teens. Alongside her brother,...