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BRYAN, Texas (KBTX) - Mary-Charlotte Young is an Appalachian-born low-country, raised Texas-based songmaker adept at the dark arts of murder ballads and Southern Gothic Americana.

“I came from a family of music lovers and nobody else played the instruments and so I was really influenced by the music that my parents played, especially my dad because he had such a broad taste in music,” Young said. “My sister and I, when we were little and we’d make up dances to like, Big Bopper records or just old old rock’n’roll songs.”

Young started singing in church when she was a kid and joined the band in middle school, before eventually picking up the guitar to teach herself how to play chords when she was 14.

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One of her songs is called “The Wimberley Flood”, which Young says “is a song that I wrote with a little bit of help from my friend Billy Hartman. He’s also a songwriter and basically, it was inspired by the floods that have happened in the past.”

Inspiration struck her when she was reminded of the story of a family that was in a house that floated down the river. It got her thinking about different aspects of the struggle through those floods over centuries as well as the ways that different people had to deal with it in the context of their lives.

Young’s website, marycharlotteyoung.com, can direct listeners to anywhere that they’d like to go on the Internet to find her. She also announces her shows every week and posts stories on Instagram to remind people when her performances are. She also has a Spotify and Apple Music account where you can listen to her music and albums.