An acoustic fingerstyle guitarist of great elegance and craft, Louisville's Nathan Salsburg built up an impressive résumé as a collaborator and sideman to artists like Joan Shelley, James Elkington, Bonnie "Prince" Billy, and Jake Xerxes Fussell, while quietly amassing a catalog of solo releases including 2013's Hard for to Win and Can't Be Won and 2018's graceful, instrumental guitar collection Third. Salsburg pivoted for Landwerk and Landwerk No. 2 by building new pieces from looped snippets of Yiddish and klezmer music off 78 rpm discs augmented with his own guitar playing. 2021's Psalms offered ten songs almost entirely based on the Old Testament Tehillim. In 2024, he and Elkington revived their ongoing partnership with All Gist, the duo's third album of instrumental guitar duets.