Artist of the Week: Alela Diane

Hometown: Nevada City, Calif. and Portland, Ore. Album: To Be Still For Fans Of: Karen Dalton, Cat Power, The Avett Brothers Alela Diane Menig did not mean for this to happen. “This music thing was really a back road I accidentally went off,” the 25-year-old explains one January afternoon, a few weeks before leaving her new home in Portland for a tour with Blitzen Trapper. The daughter of two musicians, she grew up in a house full of guitars in Nevada City, but thought her future lay in g...

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