Shawn Camp with Verlon Thompson

An intimate evening of songs & story telling by these Grammy award winning artists. Doors open @ 5:30pm. Ticket sales limited to 100. $60 per person. For more information go to www.snowbound lubinc.com/events. Don’t delay as this sold out quickly last year! “This is as much Guy Clark’s album as it is mine. That’s part of my passion for putting it out: to try and keep him alive!” Shawn Camp was seven years old when an Arkansas fiddle player named Sis Draper finally arrived at a pickin’ party in the hills of Perry County. “I remember her walking in the house, the first time I saw her, with a big beehive hairdo and a fiddle in a coffin case,” Camp says. “She was a legend before I’d ever laid eyes on her, my grandpa and Uncle Cleve had talked her up so much.” Camp remembers another time, picking in a jam session outside under a neighbor’s carport. Sis was there, playing along with everybody. Camp had his guitar. He was ready. “Sis asked me for my autograph. I’d never really considered having an autograph––I didn’t know what one was,” he says, laughing. “She had me write my name on a scrap of paper. Boy, it sure made me feel good. She respected me as a little kid, as a musician. She inspired me by doing that, to follow my dream.” Twenty-five years later, a grown Camp sat with Guy Clark in Clark’s Nashville basement workshop, trying to figure out what to write. Camp told his friend about Sis. “Guy said, ‘Well, there’s your song,’” Camp remembers. “We wrote ‘Sis Draper’ that day. ‘Magnolia Wind’ came next. For years, we would work on other songs, then fall into ‘Sis.’ If we got stuck on something, we’d end up going to the Sis Draper project.” The Sis Draper project: the creative refuge of Camp and Clark that grew into a bottomless pool with countless errant tributaries that blur the lines between personal history and wild new folklore. The songs and people are real. The stories could be. Now, the Sis Draper project is finally a cohesive, recorded masterpiece. Captured in one day at the studio formerly known as The Cowboy Arms Hotel and Recording Spa, now simply called Clement House, The Ghost of Sis Draper immerses listeners in a sharply drawn world: The devil’s box is temptation and salvation; life is beautiful, but death lurks nearby; and the hero is a wayfaring, fiddle-wielding woman called Sis. Camp and Clark co-wrote every song on the album, save one, which Clark wrote alone. Clark released six of the songs on his own albums over the years, but the seven other tunes on The Ghost of Sis Draper are being released for the first time. “It’s partially fairytale and partially truth,” Camp says with a grin. “We intentionally wrote songs that fit together.” Camp began playing guitar as a small child, growing up outside Perryville, Arkansas. Mandolin and fiddle followed, all before he could drive. He remembers dreaming of melodies, waking up, and being able to play them. “I just always loved music. It’s been my everything, really,” Camp says. “My dad worked out of state, so we moved around a lot. Whenever we’d go somewhere, I’d carry a stack of records and a little record player with my guitar. Music was my only constant––that, and my mom and dad.” A prodigy who never knew how to be anything but, Camp moved to Nashville at 20, and found early gigs playing with the Osborne Brothers, Jerry Reed, Alan Jackson, Shelby Lynne, and Trisha Yearwood. Then, he really started writing––and singing with sly grace, smooth but earthy. Camp released his first solo album, Shawn Camp, on the Reprise (Warner Bros.) label, but found his biggest success as a songwriter, penning hits for Willie Nelson, Garth Brooks, Brooks & Dunn, Josh Turner, Blake Shelton, George Strait, and many others. He became a trusted collaborator of John Prine, Loretta Lynn, and of course, Clark, with whom he wrote constantly, and toured occasionally. When Clark won a Grammy in 2014 for his final album, My Favorite Picture of You, Camp took home a statue as one of the record’s producers. In 2015, Camp took home another Grammy, this time, as lead vocalist for bluegrass supergroup the Earls of Leicester. Clark died in 2016, but saw his work revered while he lived. He is included in conversations ranking the greatest songwriters of all time, and his approach to songwriting is as respected as the songs themselves. He wrote with a poet’s empathy but revised with an editor’s ruthless precision. Critics love Clark, but the first to lionize his songs were his peers. Clark became not just an idol, but a collaborator and friend to younger writers––writers like Camp. “He would hit you with a powerful line when you least expected it,” Camp says. “That would cut you to the bone with the truth.” The Ghost of Sis Draper is a concept album that plays by its own rules, loosely calibrated by Camp and Clark. The songs are tied to one another by characters, narratives, and kernels of old-time fiddle tunes. Camp’s love of concept records can be traced back to his childhood. “Red He...

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