Morgan Dealie Wade (born December 10, 1994) is an American

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singer. Active since 2018, she has released one album on

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in 2021.

Biography

Morgan Wade is a native of

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. She began writing songs as a freshman in college, and in 2018, she recruited musicians through

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to record her first album ''Puppets with My Heart'', which was credited to The Stepbrothers. Wade told ''

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Country'' that she was inspired to do this after breaking up with her boyfriend. Wade later said that the stress of touring and recording with the Stepbrothers led to her developing an alcohol addiction. Later in 2018, Morgan Wade was performing at FloydFest along with many artists including

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. Isbell's sound engineer gave her album to Sadler Vaden, the guitarist in Isbell's band The 400 Unit. Vaden and producer Paul Ebersold then helped her assemble another album over the next two years. Titled ''Reckless'', the album was released via the

label in 2021. Selling 3,000 copies in its first week, ''Reckless'' charted at number 14 on the '' Billboard''

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charts. Wade told the publication that the album was inspired by her struggles with her mental health, past relationships, and sobriety. ''Rolling Stone'' Country describes the album by saying that Wade has "the ragged edge of a singer-songwriter who’s been putting her nose to the grindstone for some time. In a voice like worn leather, Wade describes desperate, spontaneous relationships that feel the strongest when they’re at their breaking point." "Wilder Days" was released to radio in 2021 as the album's first single. Billy Dukes of

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described Wade's vocal presence on the song as a "hardened Sheryl Crow" and called the song "complex, with chords and a melancholy shuffle that shouts heartbreak, even if her story is at worst hesitant and thoughtful." Wade re-released ''Reckless'' on January 28, 2022 with six bonus tracks. One of them is a cover of

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's 1969 hit "

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". The re-release was issued through

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Discography

Albums

Singles

Awards and nominations

References

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