Melissa Jones Auld - Texas Bound (2019)

Melissa Jones Auld is a Texas firework show, whose fuse was lit when she stepped on an open-mic stage for the first time at age 36 – as a three-times-divorced, single mother of two children – and played an original song. Since then, she has spent the past decade exploding across the Southwest, setting the places she’s called home in Texas, Utah and New Mexico ablaze with her fiery country rock.
“I just love to sing. I absolutely love to sing,” says Auld, who learned as a child by singing along to her hero, Linda Ronstadt, in the backseat of her hippie parents’ car, while being drug to “every concert in Dallas.” But the road from the backseat to the stage – and a legendary Nashville recording studio where Ronstadt herself once recorded – was a long one, winding through a frightening punk rock adolescence, motherhood, marriage, and, yeah a few divorces, including one where, Auld says, “My sister ran off with my husband.”