{"id":74333,"date":"2019-04-09T13:05:19","date_gmt":"2019-04-09T19:05:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/?p=74333"},"modified":"2019-04-09T15:02:34","modified_gmt":"2019-04-09T21:02:34","slug":"maggie-rose-and-them-vibes-are-bringing-the-love-to-oxford-on-april-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/maggie-rose-and-them-vibes-are-bringing-the-love-to-oxford-on-april-11\/","title":{"rendered":"Maggie Rose and Them Vibes Are Bringing the Love to Oxford on April 11"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Oxford,\nMississippi<\/strong>, will be getting a heavy dose of <strong>Nashville<\/strong> on April 11 when rising star <strong>Maggie Rose<\/strong> takes the stage at <strong>Thacker Mountain Radio<\/strong> and later <strong>Proud Larry\u2019s<\/strong> with her backing band,\nfellow Nashville rockers <strong>Them Vibes<\/strong>.\nFresh off of <strong>Kelly Clarkson<\/strong>\u2019s <strong>Meaning of Life Tour<\/strong>, Rose was also\nbilled on the 12th <strong>Cayamo Cruise<\/strong>\nwith artists like <strong>Jason Isbell<\/strong> and <strong>Emmylou Harris<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Maggie Rose has been belting out tunes that range from\ncountry to soul to rock for a decade, and her most recent record, <strong><em>Change\nthe Whole Thing<\/em><\/strong>, was recorded entirely live in Nashville. The effort\nearned her a nod from <strong><em>Rolling Stone<\/em><\/strong>, which listed it among\nthe best \u201cCountry\/Americana\u201d albums of 2018.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201c<em>Change the Whole\nThing&nbsp; . . . <\/em>is an album about love\nand how to hold onto it when life isn\u2019t perfect, about reaching out to one\nanother and making a difference in the world,\u201d wrote <strong>Marissa R. Moss<\/strong> for <em>Rolling\nStone<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Love is a big theme in Maggie Rose\u2019s life and career. She\nrecently played on <strong><em>The Today Show<\/em><\/strong>, playing a track from the new album called \u201cIt\u2019s\nYou.\u201d \u201cIt\u2019s a love song\u2014we\u2019re all about love,\u201d Rose said as she slid into the\nsultry lyrics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And love, in a way, is what brings her to Oxford. Her husband, former Oxford musician and <strong>Local Mail Radio<\/strong> host <strong>Austin Marshall<\/strong>, has deep roots in the area. Marshall played drums in local bands including <strong>Shady Deal<\/strong> and <strong>Dickey Do &amp; The Don\u2019ts<\/strong> before moving up to Nashville to work on <strong>Music<\/strong> <strong>Row<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n<p><iframe width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rAFJZf8BGSM\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n\n\n<p>We chatted with Maggie Rose about how she got started in Nashville, what it\u2019s like to play more than 50 times at The Grand Ole Opry, and her future plans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>How did you get started in music and what drew you into a music career?<\/strong><br>I had always been a singer. Even from the time that I was super young, my family encouraged me to sing in front of their friends, they drove me around to choir practices, and they eventually drove me up and down the east coast to go meet The B Street Band, which was a Bruce Springsteen cover band, when I was a teenager. That really allowed me to begin performing in front of a real live audience. That\u2019s when I really fell in love with performing.<br>It was an unlikely pairing . . . and my opportunity to sing in that kind of a setting. They would back me up, and I would sing different cover songs. Eventually I would start sneaking in my own original music. When the whole world didn\u2019t fall apart after I did my first one, I thought, oh, I can do this! I can start writing my own originals and finding my own voice and not just covering other people\u2019s songs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>During that time, what were some of your other musical influences\u2014bands or artists that you really connected to at that time?<\/strong><br>There was a lot of soul played at my house\u2014Aretha Franklin, Mary Chapin Carpenter, Winona Judd. I loved the Stones, the Beatles. When I moved to Nashville, I think that was really where I got a lot of exposure to more roots music, and Austin certainly had a lot to do with that, too. His Mississippi and Missouri upbringing and the music that he listened to really expanded my vocabulary. I think that\u2019s where I realized how much that clicks for me, too, as a singer. Just that raw emotion of it all.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>What led you to Nashville from Maryland?<\/strong><br>Everything is pretty unconventional about the path from where I started and how I got to Nashville. I was studying music at Clemson University of all places, and I had been playing with The B Street Band on and off and just trying to split my time between meeting them for weekends but also living my life as a college student and taking my study seriously. I got my music to Tommy Mottola, who was huge industry mogul. He heard some of my original songs and melodies, and he invited me to come audition for him in his Manhattan office. I was on my way to Econ and got a call from his assistant. I pretty much thought it was a prank call at first. And we went up a couple weeks later to sing for him. He was the liaison between my first producer, James Stroud, and myself. That was pretty much it\u2014that was the catalyst that I needed to make the jump from college student to doing this full time. I got a record deal shortly after that with Universal and was put on this high-speed trajectory to putting a single out, and then in six months [putting] a record out, and all these things that now I know aren\u2019t realistic. They don\u2019t encourage the artistic process to evolve in the way that it should. I hit the reset button. I rebranded, and I started going by Maggie Rose. And I gave myself the opportunity to catch my breath probably two years after that and decide who I wanted to be. I just continued to work under that idea that we should all be constantly evolving as artists and pushing our audience to do the same.<br>I\u2019ve done two full LPs, and I\u2019ve also released three EPs, so I\u2019ve been doing this a long time. I\u2019ve been releasing music for a decade. That\u2019s what\u2019s been so exciting lately in the last couple of years\u2014being completely independent and being able to successfully bring people over to this new place that we\u2019ve gone to musically with the more roots and soul vibe. Having released so much music in the country world, being able to retain those people but also exposing our music to new fans has been the most exciting and revitalizing time for me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure><iframe width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/bMsftz_hU_E\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>Rolling Stone<\/em><\/strong> <strong>named your recent album, <em>Change the Whole Thing<\/em>, one of the best Country\/Americana albums of 2018. That must have felt great.<\/strong><br>Yeah, especially [alongside] some of my favorite albums coming out this year. It was nice to be in that company. And that\u2019s not what we had in mind when we went about recording this album. We were just going to cut three songs initially, and wanted to do them all live. But then the product was so compelling, and we had such a fun time making it. I did it live with all my friends, and we concluded that that\u2019s how we had to finish up the rest of the record.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>You toured with Kelly Clarkson recently, as well as the Cayamo Cruise with Jason Isbell and Emylou Harris and Dawes and all. Tell me a little bit about what it\u2019s like playing with those artists.<\/strong><br>I think the most exciting part about all of that is that our music can live in all of those different settings. And they could not be more welcoming. For Kelly, it was her tour, and she invited us to be on a bunch of dates. It\u2019s a different approach than your own headlining dates, because you\u2019re potentially unknown to the audience members, but you\u2019re given an opportunity to extend your music to all these people who are possibly hearing you for the first time. And then with the Cayamo Cruise [I was billed with] all those people that I consider to be timeless musicians that I\u2019ve been listening to for a while. It\u2019s just a different beast. At the beginning of the cruise I felt like a bit of an outlier. By the end of it I felt like part of that community. The clientele wanted to know about each artist, whether you were newer or more established. They didn\u2019t just care about hearing your one hit in your set; they were there for the entirety of it and wanted to know your story. Their motto is \u201cJourney through Song,\u201d and it really felt like that was being done. Everyone was a community and Tommy Emmanuel and Molly Tuttle, people that I had just learned about made such a huge impression. Just the fact that I got to see and hear that music and be immersed in it for an entire week and also be part of the lineup was really cool and empowering to me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>You\u2019ve played The Grand Ole Opry over 50 times. What\u2019s so special about that venue and can you tell me a few favorite memories of playing there?<\/strong><br>The Opry is an institution in its own right, and I think one thing that they\u2019ve really done successfully is embrace so much of what Nashville musicians have to offer. They\u2019re not dictated by what\u2019s on country radio and what\u2019s charting. Sally in particular, who works there and books for he Opry, is really trying to be inclusive to everyone that makes Nashville so special. One of my favorite memories was the Opry Stage at Bonnaroo that I got to play last summer. I think that it\u2019s married together two really amazing things that are in Tennessee\u2019s music history, and it was cool to see all the people who were at Bonnaroo all weekend come to celebrate this longstanding Opry tradition onsite in Manchester. It was the first time they ever did the Opry Stage, and it felt like I\u2019m part of this family no matter where I go musically. I think that it\u2019s probably more Country than even Country radio in a lot of respects, because it highlights new artists but it also upholds artists that have been around for a long time that we all revere and who have led the way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>You\u2019re currently touring with Them Vibes and y\u2019all have a new single out, \u201cRight On.\u201d Can you tell me a little about how you got together with Them Vibes and who they are?<\/strong><br>Them Vibes is a rock n roll band that I\u2019ve loved for a long time. A lot of the members in my touring band they would also use for their shows, so I decided to just bring the rest of their crew out since the drummer who\u2019s been with me for 7 years is married to Larry, the front man, Brother Love, and my bass player plays with them and they also use my keyboard player, so I was like, you guys are so important to my sound and we\u2019ve written so much of the music together that I wanted them to also have the opportunity since they\u2019re backing me up to play their music because it\u2019s amazing and I think we both offer really different sounds but it makes for a great night of music with them opening up with their original music and backing me up during my set. They\u2019re just phenomenal, and mostly we\u2019re friends. They\u2019ve dedicated so much of their time and creativity to my music and <em>Change the Whole Thing<\/em>. Not only can we perform together onstage in a compelling way, but we love each other and we spend so much down time together. We drove home from Chicago on a little bus yesterday and we still love each other at the end of it. I think that that\u2019s just what every band needs, because you\u2019re here to serve your audience and make them have fun. But if you\u2019re not feeling the love onstage then the audience can sense that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Tell me a little about what it\u2019s like being a young woman in the Nashville music scene. What are some of the biggest challenges you\u2019ve faced as a woman?<\/strong><br>I think there\u2019s challenges certainly that come with that, but for me it\u2019s just being an independent artist. There\u2019s challenges that come with that in the sense of keeping the ball rolling and continuing to be prolific. I did <em>The Today Show<\/em> last Tuesday and it\u2019s so funny how with all the other things we\u2019re doing, these legitimizing factors mean so much to the industry around here. And <em>The Today Show<\/em> is massive and I was so excited to be able to do that and I do think that it has moved the needle. For me the biggest challenge as an individual, regardless of gender, is just the fact that I\u2019ve been making music for so long, and I feel like I\u2019ve really found my lane. But then people [in the industry will say] \u201cbut what do we do with her?\u201d It\u2019s not your job to figure it out. The audience will tell you. So that\u2019s something I struggle with. To feel like you fit in a few different places, but instead of being celebrated for your versatility, people find you to be a conundrum. And I\u2019ve seen that with people like Kasey Musgraves, she\u2019s just absolutely phenomenal, but she can\u2019t get arrested at country radio. That\u2019s just fear. The biggest challenge in Nashville is the fear of taking a chance and going out on a limb and getting behind an artist like that who might not necessarily fit into a template that you\u2019ve seen before.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Do you have any advice for young women who may be interested in pursuing this kind of career?<\/strong><br>Yes, and I wish that I had a little more of this early on in Nashville, especially as a teenager, but just have conviction. That doesn\u2019t mean be stubborn. Listen to what other people have to say, but make sure that at the end of the day what you do contribute is something that you can be proud of in ten years and not just something that will appease the people around you. Or if you feel pressure to do something to make ends meet, that will usually end up biting you later. So just have a true sense of self and be ready to work your ass off. And people will be drawn to that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>What is up for the future?<\/strong><br>We\u2019re doing a bunch fun festivals this summer with people like Robert Plant and Foo Fighters that are very exciting to me because it shows that people\u2019s view of what we\u2019re doing has widened. I\u2019m already working on my next record; we have a few people who involved to work with production. What I can say now is that there is definitely going to be a little Muscle Shoals vibe in there. We\u2019ll be recording part of it down at Fame Studio, and just continuing to bring that live energy to the studio. I think we will go a little further with the production and maybe get a little funky, a little psychedelic with this next one while still keeping that soul and that family unit together.<br>Them Vibes is also about to start working on their next EP. They have a song that they just released with me called \u201cRight On.\u201d We have a music video coming out pretty soon\u2014its super fun and we just kind of switch off collaborating. They have a more funky sound\u2014it\u2019s a Sly &amp; The Family Stone kind of vibe, and I\u2019m featured on it. It\u2019s helping me cast a wider net.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><em>Don&#8217;t miss Maggie Rose on Thacker Mountain Radio Thursday, April 11, and certainly don&#8217;t skip the show at Proud Larry&#8217;s that night. 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