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We’re putting the deluxe edition of ‘Reckless’ out. There was a lot of songs that didn’t make the record the first time and you know, especially “The Night.” “The Night” has never been on a physical copy of anything and that’s a song that means a lot to me it means a lot to the fans. So we wanted to put this out. Releasing a deluxe edition of a debut album is, feels great. You know, it’s not every day that you get to have such a great response for just the debut album that you get to go and add you know, six more songs to that so I’m really bummed.
Wilder Days” is essentially just a song about right person wrong time. If we would have met a little sooner it really could have worked out and just wishing you knew somebody before they changed.
I wrote “Matches and Metaphors,” obviously several years ago, Had way too much coffee, did not sleep that night, stayed up till probably 4am. And I sat down and just wrote the meat of that song and Sadler [Vaden] and I sat down a while later in Nashville and finished it up.
“Other Side” is just essentially you know a song about loving somebody that knew you, you know back in the day before you, you know were who you are right now
“Don’t Cry” is the first song I ever wrote to an instrumental track. I wrote that sitting in the studio, they just kind of created the music and I just sat with it and they kept it on repeat. And I probably wrote that song in like 45 minutes.
“Mend” is one of the older songs on the record. It almost didn’t make the record, but Sadler [Vaden], that was the first song he’d ever heard me play and he really loves that song. And so he kind of had to twist my arm a little bit, but we re-recorded it and put it on the record.
“Last Cigarette” was originally a completely different song. Same beat, completely different lyrics and we didn’t connect with the song. So I had a whole set of other lyrics and we just put it over the music and we got what we have today as “Last Cigarette.” So it was a fun time in the studio just kind of throwing new ideas around. And that was one of the last songs that we wrote for the record.
“Take Me Away” is my 10-year-old sister’s favorite song. And she played it for her Sunday school class at church, which is a real hymn-like song to play for a bunch of 10-year-olds. So that’s my favorite takeaway from that song is that a bunch of little kids in a church in Atlanta have been, singing along to that song.
“Reckless” is a song I wrote was Sadler [Vaden] and that was essentially his idea. And we knew that when he threw that title out that that was going to be a good record title and so that was just a real fun one to write with him.
“Northern Air” is also another song that almost didn’t make the record. I wasn’t entirely sure about it and we kind of changed some things up on that but I’m really I’m really glad that one did make the record. It’s definitely a lot different than the other songs on there.
“Met You” is a song I wrote after reading a book called “Hemingway in Love.” And talking about how on his deathbed, Hemingway still wasn’t over his first wife. And he just discussed that, you know, he had seen her years earlier in Paris and he had just never gotten over her. And so that just really you know, something that just kind of hit me hard. And so I sat down and really wrote that song.
“Carry Me Home” is a song that I wrote about getting sober. I’m almost five years sober and I wrote that about a night that I spent up in New York.
I wrote “When the Dirt All Settles” with Jaren Johnston and Sadler Vaden. It’s actually the first time I’ve ever co-written with two people. We wrote that before “Reckless” was ever even recorded so it was cool to throw this on the deluxe.
I wrote “Run” with Sadler [Vaden] during the quarantine over Skype. We sat down one day and just checked in with each other and he kind of had the idea for the song. And we wrote it and didn’t touch it again until we went to the studio to record it.
I wrote “The Night” about five years ago, I wrote it right before I got sober. And you know, I filmed it on my phone and put it on Facebook and it kind of just was the big traction to getting people out to my show. So it’s right there with “Wilder Days” as a song that everybody knows and you know, it means a lot to me and I’m really happy that you know, we put it on the deluxe.
I wrote “Through Your Eyes” about my younger siblings. And I think that when you have a little kid, you know, following you around everywhere and wanting to be like you, it really makes you question what you’re doing and how you’re acting. They listen to everything, they repeat everything, and they don’t keep anything to themselves. It makes me watch you know my actions.
I don’t do a lot of cover songs. And so I’m a big Elvis fan and “Suspicious Minds” is one of those songs that I really enjoy. And so I wanted to do kind of my own take on that song and we have such a good time playing it live that we decided to record it and I think it turned out really cool. It was definitely one of the more different songs I’ve done and so it just felt right to put it on the record.
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. – When The New York Times proclaims, “she sounds like she’s singing from the depths of history,” it’s obvious newcomer Morgan Wade’s writing is cutting some of the nation’s most esteemed critics’ to the core. With Year-End recognition for both Reckless and “Wilder Days” from TIME, Stereogum, Billboard, FADER, Rolling Stone and Rolling Stone Country, Tennessean, Nashville Scene and most of the country blogs, it seemed that the rest of the story might warrant telling. Today, Reckless (Deluxe Edition) arrives with her first Sadler Vaden-collaborative single “The Night,” a broiling rendition of “Suspicious Minds” and four more songs.
“We didn’t want to overwhelm people,” Wade explains of Reckless’ original 10-song incarnation. “We knew it was heavy, entirely real and not like the records most people were putting out. But as we took the music to the people, I was amazed how many people were singing ‘The Night’ back as loud as ‘Wilder Days,’ and I realized we hadn’t quite told the whole story. So, this is the rest of it, and little bit more… Think of it like breadcrumbs as a trail to where we’re heading.”
Torn from the life of a young woman unafraid to push life to the brink, Reckless was consumed in unquenchable desire, thwarted love, bottoming out, not caring and putting oneself into the world to figure it out. As The New York Times raved, “Wade has a terrific, acid-drenched voice” and HITS marveled, “a voice that’s both little-girl sweet and she-pirate swaggering,” there was no doubting the truth – or the tough vulnerability – of her delivery.
And now there is even more of Morgan Wade’s Tom Petty-esque lean rock take on classic country-feeling instruments, melodies that sweep you up and a beat that moves you forward to go around. Revisiting “The Night” with Vaden, the secret weapon in Jason Isbell’s 400 Unit, and co-producer/engineer Paul Ebersold, they’ve dialed in the white-knuckled take on barely coping “The Night,” as well as the power-pop, sobriety-inducing “Through Your Eyes.”
Landing on Rolling Stone’s all-genre Top 50 Albums, with the assessment, “Wade is so deft at conjuring the head-over-heels feeling of plunging into a relationship and the subsequent heartbreak that she sometimes seems to be pinpointing the exact moment where one blurs into the other,” Wade is fearless in facing the future. Stereogum agreed, opining, “a multidimensional, country-rock look at all the corners of what makes us human: how we can move on despite our pasts, how we can still long for who we were, even when we are flawed and broken.”
“I wrote what I felt, and I write what I feel,” says the Blue Ridge Mountain girl who spent the fall touring with roots rock American titans Lucero. “When I have big, bearded guys coming up to me crying, I know I’m not alone, and I figure anything I can do to encourage the next misfit or outcast, that’s awesome, because I had nobody who looked – or saw things – like I did when I started doing this.”
With a video for “Run” also arriving at 1:00 p.m. ET / 12:00 p.m. CT today, the tumbling melody and wishful vocal of wishing to be anywhere but there, Wade continues embodying every young person feeling trapped in a town too small for their dreams and too confining to let their true selves shine post-breakup. Recognizing, “We can fly, we can leave this town/ Baby, these memories have been holding us down,” she beckons to a conspirator to escape with her.
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