Melissa Carper
Thu, Aug 08
|Lewis and Clark Tap Room
"People call me retro or throwback, and I've been OK with that," Melissa says. "But, I feel like I'm still creating something new. I'm taking styles and blending things in a way that maybe hasn't been done before. And, in the process, I'm evolving in my own way."
Time & Location
Aug 08, 2024, 8:00 PM – 11:00 PM
Lewis and Clark Tap Room , 1535 Dodge Ave, Helena, MT 59601, USA
About The Event
Doors: 7 PM | Show: 8 PM
Standing room only
"I don't think you can get this sound unless it's borned in ya," said bluegrass legend Ralph Stanley, when asked about what he called "old-time mountain music." When Melissa Carper heard those words, something jumped inside her. While staying in the country with a friend, she found an old DVD of Down From the Mountain, the documentary and concert film of the "O, Brother Where Art Thou'' soundtrack that featured this particular Stanley interview. She immediately jotted down "borned in ya" on a piece of paper. "I knew I had to write that song," she recalls.
In the Spring of 2023, Carper went back to East Nashville's Bomb Shelter — the same "analog wonderland" where she'd recorded Ramblin' Soul and its predecessor, Daddy's Country Gold, and enlisted the help of her trusted co-producers — Dennis Crouch and…