Melissa Carper

Melissa Carper is an American singer, songwriter and double bassist raised in North Platte, Nebraska, United States.

She then worked at a fish factory in Alaska before moving to Eureka Springs, Arkansas where she could feel comfortable within the local gay community.

[3] In 2009 she moved to Austin, Texas and then to Nashville, Tennessee in 2014 where she met Dennis Crouch which led to her first solo album Daddy’s Country Gold recorded in 2021.

[5] Carper, Kelly Willis, and Brennen Leigh released a six song EP Wonder Women of Country[6] which was one of The Boston Globe music critics' favorite albums of 2024.

[4][8] Her song "Making Memories" was featured in the closing credits of an episode of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds.