A Korean-Americana artist from Spring, TX, BettySoo follows a road traveled by troubadours she admired as a teenager and in college, when she would spend evenings at the Cactus Café and late nights at the Hole in the Wall – legendary Austin listening rooms. 2009’s Heat Sin Water Skin produced by Gurf Morlix (Lucinda Williams, Ray Wylie Hubbard) put her on the map internationally and launched her into the tier of first-rate singer-songwriters.

She’s in demand as a harmony singer, both live and on albums of dozens of friends and mentors, including James McMurtry, Eliza Gilkyson, and Robert Harrison. She toured opening many dates for Alejandro Escovedo and is also in demand as a band member: Charlie Faye & the Fayettes, Nobody’s Girl, Bonnie Whitmore. The pandemic grounded her tours, but she carved a unique niche in the streaming landscape with her weekly Nobody’s Happy Hour, where she and a guest perform a variety of challenging improvised musical tasks before a live audience (on Zoom).

She returns to touring this year as the support act for James McMurtry and Chris Smither, two of her long-time songwriting and performing heroes.