Melissa Carper
Melissa Carper
Latest Release
- Made With Love
- October 2025
- • 1 Song
Top Songs
| 1 | Hanging on to You | ||
| 2 | Texas, Texas, Texas | ||
| 3 | Ain't a Day Goes By | ||
| 4 | Ramblin' Soul | ||
| 5 | Christian Girlfriend |
Albums
Oct 2025 • 1 song
Sep 2025 • 1 song
Nov 2024 • 6 songs
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About
Biography
A distinctive upright bassist, singer, and songwriter from Arkansas, Melissa Carper's homespun yet profound tales of life, love, and loss combine elements of old-timey blues, country, western swing, jazz, honky-tonk, and early rock & roll. Nicknamed "HillBillie Holiday" by friend and frequent collaborator Chris Scruggs, her well-received 2015 debut paved the way for the critically acclaimed Daddy's Country Gold (2021) and Ramblin' Soul (2022), the latter of which marked her debut for Thirty Tigers.
Raised in rural Nebraska, Carper spent her formative years playing upright ba...