Mandy Watts moves between a range of genres, including alternative bluegrass, folk rock, insurgent country, and queer indie. She describes her sound as a little bit country, a little bit rock n roll–with a dash of queer desire and Southern angst. Mandy grew up in a family of bluegrass musicians, who performed in South Carolina under the name Gresham Grass. Her first instrument was the banjo, which she learned from her granddad, Jimmy Altman, as a child. Not long after, her mother, Sharron Watts, taught Mandy a handful of guitar chords, and she’s never looked back. Mandy’s distinct picking style and penchant for a good story are a hallmark of these roots. But when it comes down to it, Mandy writes songs for misfits everywhere–people who understand the power of stories, precisely because they are so often written out of them.