Shawn Camp at Hardly Strictly Bluegrass - San Francisco, CA

Oct 2nd & 3rd Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Fiddlin' with Steve Earle + Shawn Camp Show & More San Francisco, CA “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 lis