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OK. Although the Pentecostal church he attended multiple times a week continues to influence his music — the opening song on The Very Last Day is titled “Hades Pleads� — he says any of the songs Parker Millsap writes he no longer considers himself religious. Millsap toured for feel older than the man who wrote them years as an acoustic trio, with Daniel Foulks on fiddle and his — timeless, in a way, and unabashedly childhood friend Michael Rose on bass. Percussionist Patrick contemporary in another. Millsap, 23, draws Ryan joining the band in 2015. Millsap, who has received upon blues and country music as much as he praise from the likes of the Wall Street Journal, NPR, Rolling does early rock and roll. He instills depth into his characters Stone and The New York Times, has movie star good looks with uncanny ease, a gift perhaps incubated in the to-theand exudes an effortless likability. And in July, he’ll play three point urgency of the Twitter age. Millsap made a splash with shows in Montana on consecutive nights: the Top Hat in his critically acclaimed self-titled debut album in 2014. And, Missoula July 28, the main stage at Red Ants Pants Music in 2016, his career ignited with the release of The Very Last Festival in White Sulphur Springs July 29, and in the intimate Day, which the Americana Music Association nominated for Live from the Divide studio in album of the year. Last year, Bozeman July 30. He recently he also made his national TV WHO: PARKER MILLSAP spoke with The Monthly by debut on Conan, performed phone. on Austin City Limits and the WHERE: LIVE FROM THE Grand Ole Opry, and played DIVIDE Last year was notably strong gigs with Jason Isbell, Tedeschi for you. You made your Trucks Band, Lake Street Dive, national television debut, Lucinda Williams and Shovels WHEN: 8 P.M., SUNDAY, toured with some pretty heavy & Rope, among others. And JULY 30 hitters, and your album The after seeing him perform in Very Last Day is outstanding Atlanta, Sir Elton John himself TICKETS: CACTUS — heart-wrenching at times handpicked Millsap to join RECORDS and dance-hall revivalist at him onstage at the Apple others and several stops in Music Festival in London. Millsap grew up in the WWW.PARKERMILLSAP.COM tumbleweed town of Purcell, Continued on page 7
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