In 2023, we told you about the debut of an acclaimed young blues musician named Nat Myers of Kentucky.

American songwriter said his work, quote, reverberates with the sound of a deep blues man from the 20s and 30s.

Special correspondent Tom Cashado now has an update to Myers' personal story.

It's part of our arts and culture series,

Canvas.

By my baby, easy as you go. Said you go down the move the road. Nat Myers sings and plays the blues

like the last hundred years of music never even happened. He plays his resonator guitar that way, too.

I first met Nat in 2023 when he was fresh off the release of his critically praised debut album, Yellow Peril.

He'd been discovered by the Black Keys Dan Auerbach, who signed and recorded him in Nashville.

We talked about his love of literature, existentialists like Albert Camus, and the ancients,

especially Homer.

You don't see the fall of Troy.

You don't see the Trojan horse.

You don't see these things. You see a moment't see the Trojan horse. You don't see these things.

You see a moment after Petrocles is killed.

And he spoke of Charlie Patton, an artist who inspired his style,

and others like Mississippi's Robert Petway and Tommy McClennan.

Natmire's career was taking off.

Less than two years later, his life has taken a different turn.

I felt something was wrong with me, maybe back in November, but I started getting these,

what I described as, pluratic pains running up and down the, kind of the back of my of my ribs felt like my ribs and my lungs were

just like scraping each other. So I thought maybe I just got a lung infection and some anti-inflammatories

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