Sis Draper returns in new concept album from Shawn Camp & Guy Clark

Sis Draper, one of the most beloved bluegrass song characters in recent years, has returned to tell us a little more about her life and music through a concept album co-written by Shawn Camp and Guy Clark, The Ghost of Sis Draper, released September 12 on the Truly Handmade Records label.  Sis Draper was a real person, a fine fiddle player with an exceptional bow arm from the state of Arkansas, that Shawn’s grandpa and Uncle Cleve revered. Some of the stories in the new album, The Ghost of Sis Draper, are true, and some could be true.  Shawn was seven years old when the much-anticipated Sis Draper finally arrived at a picking party at his grandparents’ house in the hills of Perry County, 50 miles northwest of Little Rock. “I remember her walking in the house, the first time I saw her, with a big beehive hairdo and a fiddle in a coffin case,” Camp said.  Twenty-five years later, Camp sat down with his friend Guy in his Nashville basement workshop, and Sha