Melanie Hammet: Home⎟
Just got back from the 30A Songwriter's Festival last week--had the great pleasure of playing with Bethany Olds (photo), Granville Automatic, Nicole Witt, and the newly-minted Mama's Blue Dress!
"Melanie Hammet is the updated, female version of Billy Bragg, she's Tom Waits minus the cool beard, plus the angelic whop; her tone, at once melodic and emphatic. She is post modern folk, which is to say simultaneously, post punk. Her prescription for humanity picks up where Joe Strummer left off. Wake up, America! Melanie Hammet is going to sing some songs for you."
--Frank Giampietro, poet
2010-2012 resident scholar at The Southern Review