Nat Myers grew up more interested in skateboarding and pop punk than the front-porch acoustic blues he'd eventually become known for. His mother, Korean and married to an American soldier who'd served in Korea, got him a guitar at 13 after he'd destroyed his trumpet in protest of something else entirely — he doesn't speak Korean and has never been to Korea, but stayed connected to Northern Kentucky's small Korean community growing up.
Yellow Peril, his acoustic blues debut, draws directly on pre-war blues pioneers like Charley Patton and Louisville's own Sylvester Weaver, deliberately avoiding electric guitar to keep that old, stripped-down feeling intact. Dan Auerbach and Jason Momoa both praised the record, and NPR named him one of its favorite artists of the year it came out.