When Madi Diaz, our Nashville Artist of the Month for August, recorded her striking new album, History of a Feeling, she and producer Andrew Sarlo didn’t see the need to add much embellishment to her vital, bare-skinned performances. You can hear why in this exclusive video of Diaz singing two of the songs, “Nervous” and “Resentment” in her home; with nothing but her voice and guitar, she makes each of those terrifically lucid pieces of writing command our full attention.