Singer/songwriter Mark Erelli turns adversity into finely embroidered rock songs that burn with urgency on his 2023 album Lay Your Darkness Down, written in the wake of his diagnosis with a degenerative retinal disease. Over his two decade-long career, the singer-songwriter-sideman-producer-writer has worked with GRAMMY-winner Lori McKenna, Paula Cole, Marc Cohn, and Josh Ritter along with writing and producing his own material, like 2018’s “By Degrees,” for which he was nominated for Song of the Year at the Americana Honors and Awards.