Raised in Arkansas, Melissa Carper got her start playing bass in her family band as a kid. Now in Texas, she plays a wide variety of retro Americana ranging from country and Texas swing to early jazz.
"Ramblin Soul," the title of Melissa Carper s toe-tappin new album of groove-laced Western swing, is rather apt. The singer-songwriter, originally from Nebraska, has led a pretty peripatetic life.