Touring country music talent Melissa Carper comes to the Dirty Drummer with her band, with special guests opening the show.
Carper finds power in using decades-old styles as a backdrop for narratives and melodies that feel more contemporary.” – Rolling Stone
“ Carper’s relentless creativity spins our grandparents’ music into something immediate and familiar.” – No Depression
" Melissa Carper and her cohorts have crafted an exquisite work of audio goodness that mesmerizes with its wayback sound and style, stealing you to a simpler era in music when everything made more sense, and the very foundations of American music were set.” – Saving Country Music
“Not unlike Loretta Lynn, Melissa Carper is giving us scenes and stories and vignettes that kind of play out between home and the honky-tonk.” — NPR
“Listeners will break out in grins when pushing play and hearing the swinging sounds of the title track.” – American Songwriter
“Melissa Carper writes simple, profound songs with a distinctly vintage sound palette.” – GRAMMY.com