Krystal Keith and Lance Carpenter at the Club Braman Performance Theater

Krystal Keith

After a two-year hiatus to welcome her first child, Krystal Keith returns with a five-song EP built on the solid foundation of her widely acclaimed Show Dog Nashville debut album.

The year-long development of Boulder expanded her creative circle even as it sharpened her focus as a singer, songwriter and artist. Along the way, it even created a bit of internal conflict with its title. Krystal isn’t just anybody’s kid, however. Her dad just happens to be 2015 Songwriters Hall of Fame inductee Toby Keith, though she’s not pushing to get a writing session with him. “We’ve written together here and there, but I’ve always tried to toe the line between daughter and new artist,” she says. “He doesn’t really care. He would write with me anytime, anywhere. But until I have accomplished enough to earn the right to write with someone of his caliber, then I’m not going to ask to put a song we’ve written on an album. There’s a respect factor there I really want to honor.”

Lance Carpenter

The big-hearted Arkansas farm kid with a voice to match chose a career in service to others. Amid the considerable stress and turmoil attending that job, he found that the music he loved was able to quiet his mind and focus his heart. Slowly and often unintentionally, the power of crafting lyrics and melody drew Lance in a new direction. Eventually, he realized he’d returned to the exact place he’d started – the place he was meant to be all along.

Carpenter’s arrival as a songwriter and recording artist is, in many ways, an extension of a creative progression that became increasingly deliberate. The journey took him from self-taught hobbyist and therapeutic outlet to committed songwriter and Nashville-based professional hitmaker. Continually working toward developing his craft, a growing love of performing led to the recording session that changed everything. Unexpectedly so.

“My introduction to country music was my mom playing it in her car,” says Carpenter, who grew up on a cattle farm in Northwest Arkansas. “I never thought I would sing or play, but my stepdad has listened to the country countdown every Sunday for as long as I’ve known him. Country has just been a staple in my life.”

Lance and Krystal will host an exclusive performance of their single “Anyone Else” and a few other songs!