MORGAN WADE RELEASES RECKLESS DELUXE EDITION (SIX TRACKS ADDED TO ROLLING STONE’S COUNTRY NO. 1 ALBUM OF 2021)

 

Morgan Wade’s Reckless (Deluxe Edition Arrives Today

Six Tracks Added to Rolling Stone Country’s No. 1 Album of 2021

Spotlighted On TIME, Stereogum, Billboard, Lyric, NY Times Year-End Lists

Photo credit: David McClister

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. Listen to Reckless (Deluxe Edition) Hear what the buzz is all about. Reckless, but even more and even better. MorganWadeMusic.com | Facebook | Twitter | Instagram | YouTube