Kimberley M'Carver (Lynn Crossett opening)

About this event

Born Kimberly Sowell in Dallas, Texas, and raised in Mesquite, Texas, Kimberly M'Carver has been singing and dancing since childhood. She was a music voice major in Dallas and UT Austin, while dancing professionally in fashion shows. She also received degrees in anthropology and veterinary science.

After moving to Houston from Austin, M'Carver started writing songs, fronting cover bands, and performing at songwriter open mics. After sending a homemade tape of her songs to Rounder Records, they visited Houston to see a live performance - and offered her a recording contract on the spot.

To say that Kimberly M'Carver has carved out an impressive resume is an understatement. She has toured with Jim Lauderdale, opened for Guy Clark, Radney Foster, Junior Brown, Karla Bonoff, John Gorka, Johnny Paycheck, Gary P. Nunn, David Allen Coe, Jimmy LaFave, Jimmie Dale Gilmore, Leo Kottke, Loudon Wainwright, Robert Earl Keen, Riders in the Sky, Tom Russell, etc. She has also played some legendary venues. including Lincoln Center's Outdoor Concert, Seattle's Bumbershoot Festival, Houston's International Festival, Glasgow Scotland's Big Country Festival, Kerrville Folk Festival, and venues including the BlueBird Cafe (Nashville), Anderson Fair, McGonigel's Mucky Duck (Houston), Passim's (Boston), Cactus Cafe (Austin), The Ark (Ann Arbor), Birchmere (D.C.), Iron Horse (Northampton), and many more.

Lynn Crossett travels between Central Texas and Southern California performing songwriting-focused Indie Americana music. In a follow-up to his 2022 album, In the Company of a Song , which debuted at No. 6 on the Roots Music Report Top 50 Americana Country Album Chart and stayed in the top 10 for eight weeks, he is back working with Grammy Award-winning producer Lloyd Maines on his latest release, Autumn to August . Released on June 20, 2025, the album debuted at No. 4 on the same chart and reached No. 1 the following week.

“Lynn Crossett pens songs about longtime friendships, realizations that come on over time, and that nagging sensation that finding yourself isn’t about where you reside, or where you roam. They’re all brewed in a Texas style Americana.” (Elise Cady, Americana Highways )

"Lynn Crossett began playing music while he was also beginning his professional journey as a college student in Austin, Texas. The highway that he hopped on leading him to success in the legal profession always had a parallel service road toward singer-songwriterdom. He now lives in San Marcos, Texas and teaches there full time as a law professor at Texas State University. …