Honky Tonk Highway (2014)
Musical EP (Self Released)
Available on Bandcamp
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Three Americana influenced songs display Melanie Curran’s transformation into country song-writer Melanie Odelle. By self-mythologizing, and placing herself within the American narrative of hard-scrabble honk-tonk artist, the musician is able to remake herself. Questions of authenticity, appropriation of rural musical forms, and the difference between private life and public persona arise. Does the American artist have to distance herself from her past in order to create?