Claudia Appling Williams: Vocal and Guitar, I’ve been singing for as long as I can remember. I used to love hearing my mother sing, so it’s in my blood. After hearing the first Patsy Cline album, I was hooked. I got my first guitar at 12 years old and I’ve been playing and singing since. My first influences were Patsy Cline, Joni Mitchell, Ella Fitzgerald and Emmy Lou Harris. I enjoy all genre's of music, but lean toward lyrical pieces that tell life’s stories and it's many roads and challenges. Claudia has been singing in the Big Sky Country most of her life. As the lead singer of Montana Rose, she is following her dream of songwriting and interpreting songs of others that speak to her soul. She enjoys telling the stories of life and love in the west, sharing tales that most just dream about. A true Montana Icon, born and raised in the west and carrying on the culture in music. She interprets standards such as"Walking after Midnight,""I Fall to Pieces,"" Sweet Dreams" and others with an erotic tenderness that's less country than it is late-night hip. A little folk, country and blues, it's American roots music.She has played in most states in the West and worked and recorded in Nashville for the last 30 years, always drawn back to her home in the Rocky Mountains. She loves sharing stories and real life situations in her songs that most folks only dream about. She is a song interpreter, singing songs her fellow songwriters have written and writing and recording her share of hand penned songs. With 9 CD's recorded, her music has been shared all over the world.