Ruston Kelly’s Search for God Brought Him Back to Music

Ruston Kelly has built his reputation as one of Americana’s most brutally honest songwriters, the kind who can turn personal wreckage into songs that sound both devastating and redemptive. His records have chronicled heartbreak, addiction and survival with an unflinching candor that earned him a devoted following. But last year, when the music stopped coming, Kelly found himself in a crisis that couldn’t be written through.“I felt an inability to create for the first time in my life,” he says. “