“Crooked Tree” (Molly Tuttle & Golden Highway)

by Melody Walker & Molly Tuttle

“San Francisco Blues” (Molly Tuttle & Golden Highway)

by Melody Walker, Molly Tuttle & Ketch Secor

“Listen Sister” (Sally & George)

by Melody Walker & Shelby Means

“How Can You Sing” (Front Country)

by Melody Walker

This song was 6 years in the writing and finally ended up on Front Country’s latest record. Part of an obsessive minimalist writing phase, the verses were originally a single note melody over changing chords, and the lyrics are as plainspoken and concise as possible.

“The Reckoning” (Front Country)

by Melody Walker

Inspired by the events that began to escalate in 2016, I wrote this song as a prayer of my own commitment to take responsibility for the present moment and to move forward in hopes of changing it.

“Make It Now” (Front Country)

by Melody Walker

“If Something Breaks” (Front Country)

by Melody Walker

“Sake of the Sound” (Front Country)

by Melody Walker

“Side Saddle” (Molly Tuttle & Golden Highway)

by Melody Walker & Molly Tuttle

“The River Knows” (Molly Tuttle & Golden Highway)

by Melody Walker & Molly Tuttle

“It’s About Time” (Della Mae + McCrary Sisters)

by Melody Walker & Jeni Lyn Gardner

“Broken Record” (Front Country)

by Melody Walker

I have always been both a pop and protest songwriter at heart. On Front Country’s latest album, I really got to let loose and do big message songs with big production and it was so much fun. Liberation should be joyful and that is what I wanted to express in this song.

“Amerikan Dream” (Front Country)

by Melody Walker

Probably the most straight-up, unabashed protest song I have written so far, this anthem of economic inequality was called “part post—punk and part E Street Band gallop” by Rolling Stone.

“Miracle” (Front Country)

by Melody Walker

“Bigger Than This”

by Molly Tuttle & Melody Walker

“Black Grace”

by Melody Walker (2013 Chris Austin Song Contest Winner)