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SUMMARY:JD McPherson - SOCKS: A Rock N' Roll Christmas Tour with special 
 guest Melissa Carper
DESCRIPTION:Acclaimed singer\, songwriter and musician JD McPherson will 
 embark on his eight-annual “SOCKS: A Rock n’ Roll Christmas Tour” this D
 ecember with confirmed stops at LA’s Pacific Electric\, The Kessler in D
 allas\, TX\, 04 Center in Austin\, TX\, among several others. Tickets ar
 e available now via www.jdmcpherson.com/tour. These performances celebra
 te McPherson’s breakthrough debut Christmas album\, SOCKS\, which was re
 leased in 2018 on New West Records. The album features 11 all-original C
 hristmas songs\, the album has been the best-reviewed holiday record rec
 eiving overwhelming critical praise. -- Celebrated for her profoundly ob
 servational lyrics\, her “homespun sensibility\,” and a voice that curls
  like a croon from a gramophone\, Melissa Carper plays old school countr
 y music that resonates across time and place. Carper’s repertoire weaves
  together the threads of old-time\, bluegrass\, western swing\, jazz\, a
 nd blues that all intertwined to form American country music\, back in t
 he days before the recording industry drew artificial lines and slapped 
 on race-based genre labels. Veteran Nashville musician Chris Scruggs hig
 hlighted Carper’s versatile traditionalism when he dubbed her “HillBilli
 e Holiday\,” declaring\, “She’s as good as it gets. She has a quality th
 at really transcends time and fashion.” Melissa Carper’s childhood in No
 rth Platte\, Nebraska\, was filled with country music. She has fond memo
 ries of lying on the living room carpet with her head under the family s
 tereo console\, listening to her parents’ beloved Hank Williams and Lore
 tta Lynn albums. From an early age\, the Carper siblings sang gospel mus
 ic together at churches and retirement homes\, and when the kids were ol
 d enough for instruments\, their mother organized them into a country ba
 nd. Having taken up upright bass in 4th grade\, 12-year-old Melissa natu
 rally became the electric bassist. A childhood playing country music unt
 il midnight on the circuit of Nebraska’s rural Elks\, Eagles\, and Ameri
 can Legion halls may have been out of the ordinary\, but she reflects th
 at “my parents were dreamers and they believed in all of us and our musi
 cal abilities.” Her high school band director\, himself a bassist\, was 
 another mentor\, and with his encouragement\, she attended the Universit
 y of Nebraska at Lincoln on a classical music scholarship.\n\nTickets: h
 ttp://www.prekindle.com/event/19496-jd-mcpherson-austin\n\nhttps://findl
 ocal.community/event/7bbb1e4a-1610-44a8-9a5e-c7cfcd04ccb9
LOCATION:04 Center\, Austin\, TX
URL:https://findlocal.community/event/7bbb1e4a-1610-44a8-9a5e-c7cfcd04ccb
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