User:Mindy Dirt/Molly Martin

Molly Martin is an American singer/songwriter from Bay St. Louis, Mississippi. She has self-released an album, Somewhere Between, funded through Kickstarter.

Martin grew up in Bay St. Louis, just outside New Orleans. She played music throughout her teens—her mother had given her an electric Fender at 13, and her father a mandolin for high school graduation. In 2005 she left home for Sewanee, taking her father's 1970 Martin D-35 with her; three days after she left, Hurricane Katrina hit, flooding her hometown and destroying her and her father's instruments, but the D-35 was in Tennessee by that time and was thus saved.^[1]

She moved to East Nashville and released a full-length album, Somewhere Between, in June 2013.^[2]^[3] The album was funded through Kickstarter; Martin said she got the $4000 she asked for within 28 hours.^[1] Martin's music, which she says is influenced greatly by Bonnie Raitt, combines "blues, folk, New Orleans music, country", according to Kathleen Johnson of Vintage Guitar;^[1] Caine O'Rear, of American Songwriters, called it Americana, "country with a bluesy edge and dash of blue-eyed soul".^[3]

Martin, who is not a full-time professional musician, began a professional career in cooking and started a catering company,^[1] and was director of catering^[4] at the Food Company, a restaurant in East Nashville.^[5]