Madison Cunningham Won a Grammy. Next Came a Hard Reset.

Madison Cunningham Won a Grammy. Next Came a Hard Reset.

Soon after Madison Cunningham won her first Grammy, early in February 2023, a hero invited her to breakfast. Wendy Melvoin had been the guitarist at Prince’s side in the Revolution four decades earlier and had endured the music industry’s wild vicissitudes — dream sessions, dead friends, dramatic reunions. She liked what she heard in Cunningham’s “Revealer,” which won best folk album. But she was surprised to learn that Cunningham, then 26, had …