Ashley Monroe has shared the video for “Magnolia,” the latest single from her new album Tennessee Lightning.
Co-written with Waylon Payne and Brendan Benson, the new single arrived with an official video shot in Muscle Shoals, Alabama directed by Erika Rock.
Monroe shares: “Waylon Payne, Brendan Benson and I wrote this song back in 2015. It’s haunted me ever since. We were on a Bobbie Gentry train-of-thought that day… musing as to what she might be up to these days and talking about how much her music affected us. We let ourselves get deep into the Mississippi Delta. I definitely honed in on that part of my own soul. I like sleeping on sheets of satin too… but you sure can’t hide my gingham soul. From the day we wrote this song, I saw the scenes I was singing about in my mind. And when it finally came time to shoot the video, I knew we had to go to the Delta. We didn’t have time to go all the way to Mississippi, but we went to Muscle Shoals and with a little help from our friends, we were able to create exactly what I had envisioned.”
Tennessee Lightning was co-produced by Monroe with Grammy-winning producer/engineer Gena Johnson (John Prine, Jason Isbell) and features special guests T Bone Burnett, Brittney Spencer, Waylon Payne, Brendan Benson, Butch Walker, Karen Fairchild and Armand Hutton. Stream Tennessee Lightning – HERE.
See the video for Magnolia – HERE.
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