Maggie Rose joins Ty Bentli on his Apple Music Country show to interview her about the recording of her upcoming album, Have A Seat. In the interview they discuss recording at the iconic Fame Studio in Muscle Shoals, and how the process gave way to her new sound.
Maggie Rose on the influence behind her new album:
“Everyone should go watch the Fame documentary that PBS made, it’s insane. And people like Aretha Franklin and Otis Redding and Wilson Picket, Etta James, the Stones, the Almond Brothers, they all recorded records there. And it’s kind of in the middle of nowhere, but there’s something really magical about it. The room is a time capsule it’s been preserved, and I got it in my head that I wanted to write material for an album to be made there. A lot of it was tracked before the pandemic began. So I brought Sarah, my drummer and Alex Haddad and Brother Love from Them Vibes. And then we put this insane band together, a lot of the musicians from that area. And got connected with Ben Tanner, who’s part of Alabama Shakes through my publisher, Katie, and we tracked most of it and then brought the remainder of it to Nashville, where we had overdub sessions for vocals. And we had Marcus King come in and lay guitar down on a song that he and I wrote together. But the bulk of it was recorded at Fame. I feel like you can hear it.”
Maggie Rose on if she feels boxed in to the Country genre:
“A little bit of both. I think Change The Whole Thing, the album that I made here that was more of a live album was definitely a bridge for me. And I think I realized my capabilities as a soul singer because my band supported me and brought me to that. I would’ve never made Have A Seat if I hadn’t been living in Nashville for all these years and kind of accumulating what living here has taught me and then reinforcing it with the soul and the skill of what everyone down in Muscle Shoals does, getting a little psychedelic and escaping physically and mentally from Nashville, even though it’s only two and a half hours from here to just become totally immersed in that process.”
