Singer, Songwriter, Prodigy, All during 19

Even with a disproportion of encouragement, Ms. Krauss’s pass competence mount as a closest thing to a beating in Ms. Jarosz’s nascent career.

Like Ms. Krauss, who available her initial manuscript during 14, Ms. Jarosz is widely regarded as one of acoustic music’s many earnest immature talents: a singer-songwriter and mandolin and banjo expert with a ambience and intrepidity to strike that singular change of blurb and vicious success.

Her 2009 debut, “Song Up in Her Head,” warranted her an Americana Music Award nomination, appearances on “Austin City Limits” and “A Prairie Home Companion,” and bookings during Bonnaroo, a Newport Folk Festival and a Telluride Bluegrass Festival. She was also nominated for a Grammy in 2009 for Best Country Instrumental Performance, and she perceived a news in her college dorm room.

“The tag texted me, and we had no thought it was even a possibility,” pronounced Ms. Jarosz, a Wimberley local who is study contemporary song invention during a New England Conservatory in Boston. “My roommate was there with me. we shrieked a little. And small by little, my classmates came trickling in to assistance me celebrate.”

Ms. Jarosz pronounced her classmates, many of whom also have budding song careers, aren’t astounded anymore that she’s not around many on weekends. On a new Thursday, Ms. Jarosz was in category from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. The subsequent day, she took a final examination in her keyboard category and flew to play in North Carolina during MerleFest, that also featured Lyle Lovett and Robert Plant and his Band of Joy. She flew behind for Monday classes, operative in movement to ready for a semester’s final exams, papers and performances.

In theory, this is Ms. Jarosz’s between-album down time. On May 17, 6 days bashful of her 20th birthday, Sugar Hill Records, a princely bluegrass and Americana label, will start a new promotional pull with a recover of Ms. Jarosz’s sophomore record, “Follow Me Down.” Ms. Jarosz wrote all though 2 of a album’s 11 tracks, and a credits in a ship annals review like a hurl call of a acoustic song world’s elite, — Béla Fleck, Jerry Douglas, Shawn Colvin and Darrell Scott. Their contributions had to be available around Ms. Jarosz’s educational schedule, with Ms. Jarosz drifting to Nashville on weekends and holiday breaks.

“She has towering time-management skills,” pronounced Gary Paczosa, Ms. Jarosz’s co-producer and AR deputy during Sugar Hill Records, adding, “When she was 16, we felt like we were around a 22-year-old. And now during 19, you’re with a 33-year-old. You constantly have to remind yourself of her age. we consider a lot of it goes behind to being an usually child and carrying folks that speak to we like an adult your whole life.”

When Ms. Jarosz was 11, her parents, Gary and Mary Jarosz — who are both teachers — famous their daughter’s low-pitched interests and began holding her to weekly bluegrass jams in Wimberley, that led to a array of workshops and opening opportunities during folk and bluegrass festivals around a country.

At those festival circuits’ children’s workshops and campfire jams, Ms. Jarosz met many of her heroes, some of a same high-profile musicians she’d eventually entice to minister to her records, including Chris Thile, a mandolin specialist of Nickel Creek. Mr. Thile’s latest band, The Punch Brothers, collaborates with Ms. Jarosz on what’s maybe a many startling impulse of “Follow Me Down,” a cover of a Radiohead lane “The Tourist.” Then again, maybe it will usually warn acoustic and bluegrass purists who skip her initial album’s takes on Decemberists and Tom Waits tunes.

“I grew adult appreciating musicians that were kind of on a edge, entrance from acoustic folk and bluegrass backgrounds, though also pulling a envelope,” pronounced Ms. Jarosz, who has recently begun charting strange song for fibre quartets, something she schooled this division in propagandize and hopes to request to her subsequent record. “And since of that, we don’t feel tied down to any genre or history. And yet, we consider there’s a disproportion between not worrying about purists and not respecting that history. we came from that world. But we can honour that universe and not be tied down to it.”

While she’s gentle poking during a roof a bit, Ms. Jarosz pronounced she’s not in a rush to figure out only how distant divided she’ll eventually breeze adult from her bluegrass and acoustic roots. That “Follow Me Down” is sparking those kinds of discussions before a recover suggests that maybe that story line will shortly succeed a many apparent one: her age.

“I’m still 19, so I’d know if people still wish to speak about my age,” Ms. Jarosz said. “But here’s a thing: Even if nobody was articulate about me during all, I’d still be doing this. School’s taught me so many already about how many we don’t know. It’s done me consider about song in a different, deeper way. we consider I’m still only scratching a surface.”

Andy Langer is a song columnist for Esquire and a midday D.J. on KGSR in Austin.