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Finding a place, person or sound that feels like home can be a mysterious process. Sometimes a brand new experience can somehow recreate the feelings of the past and bring a certain kind of peace and comfort that is usually reserved for familiarity.
Melissa Carper captures this sentiment perfectly with her songs which while clearly rooted in the past provide a warmth from times gone by while also somehow managing to sound fresh and new transcending notions of time.
Melissa Carper will perform at The Heights Theater opening for Hayes Carll on Thursday, March 16 and will return to Houston with good friends and collaborators Kelly Willis and Brennen Leigh on Saturday, May 27 at The Dosey Doe Big Barn.
Since growing up in rural Nebraska, Carper has spent much of her life rambling from town to town. In her youth she sang and traveled with her family band planting the roots for her search for new sounds and places.
“I’ve moved around a lot in my lifetime,” says Carper. “I’ve lived in a lot of different places and of course touring as a musician that's...