Parker Millsap

About the Artist

Parker Millsap’s live performances are a combustible mix of roots-rock grit, gospel fire, and lyrical storytelling that feels both timeless and provocatively current. With a voice that can move from gravelly preacher to soft-spoken confessor in a single verse, Millsap commands the stage with a presence far beyond his years—something fans have noticed since his breakout moment performing Hades Pleads, a howling, bluesy plea from the underworld that made NPR and Rolling Stone take serious note. Raised in a Pentecostal church in Purcell, Oklahoma, his early exposure to hymnals and hellfire sermons still echoes through his sets, where songs often wrestle with questions of sin, salvation, and what happens when you play a Telecaster loud enough to shake the angels loose. One particularly iconic performance at the Ryman Auditorium ended with a standing ovation—and not just the polite kind, the kind where someone yells “holy sh*t” before clapping. Millsap’s shows blend the energy of a tent revival with the introspection of a Southern Gothic novel, all delivered with the sly charisma of someone who knows his demons by name and maybe bought them a drink once.