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“It’s good to reflect and see how far you’ve come,” says acclaimed singer-songwriter Morgan Wade. Her latest album The Party Is Over (Recovered) (out 8/1 via Sony Music Nashville) is all about her past, with the Virginia native revisiting songs she wrote before she became sober.
When Wade was in college in Roanoke studying to become a doctor, she was discovering herself in numerous other ways. Living on her own for the first time, the formerly anti-alcohol teen began drinking and eventually doing drugs with her friends and classmates. But she also started writing songs that would establish her musical identity, finding her voice and pursuing a passion that would become her livelihood.
“I was really changing and trying to figure out who the hell I was,” she recalls. “I think some days I'm still trying to figure that out.”
Wade’s partying spiraled into an addiction that she eventually realized she needed to quit. As of this summer, she’s been sober for 8 years. In the time since, she’s become one of Nashville’s most critically-acclaimed stars, and her fans began finding her old music, which she played on early tours and had put up on YouTube. They started requesting she put them out officially, so Wade began digging through her archives of voice notes and videos to find the songs that she felt were good enough to record and play. With her go-to producer Clint Wells, they refined and arranged these songs that were written by Wade on her own, between the ages of 19 and 22, to fit the setlist and discography of a 30-year-old star.
“I’m at a place now where I’m good in my sobriety and I’m happy,” she says. “I can revisit the songs and look back on them fondly, and not from a place of wanting to shelter myself from that. I remember exactly where I was at and what I was doing when I wrote them. I’m looking back as an adult who's sober, who's happy, who's healthy, who's doing very well, saying ‘Alright, you were an idiot, but you were smart in some areas.’”
The songs on The Party Is Over run the gamut of a young woman torn between feelings of loneliness and typical coming-of-age confusion with the desire to lose herself in the ecstasy of pain-numbing substances. Lead single “East Coast” was a preview of what Wade was feeling towards the end of this period of her life, “decidin’ ‘tween the Bible and the bottle.”
“That song was in the 27 Club realm of things that I've written,” Wade explains. “I knew that the people that connect with deep songs like that really connect with those. I’m always happy to put things out that touch on my sobriety and mental health and are a big reflection of where I was at that time.”
The oldest song on the album is “Parking Garage,” written when Wade was “19 and lonely” as she sings at the start of the track. “I had a couple of friends that we would go smoke weed in the parking garage beside the dorm in her car, and I think back about that,” she says. “So I just wrote it after hanging out with them. It was really fun to go back and give life to it because it never had been recorded at all.”
On the tail end of this period is the title track, “The Party Is Over.” She was around 21, reflecting on a relationship that had seen better days. She describes it as one built around the excess.
Capping off the album is the sole new song from the collection, “Hardwood Floor.” The song is inspired by her experience going through IVF, due to the preventative measures she has done and will be taking in the future after testing positive for the RAD5ID gene. This gene, along with her family history of breast cancer, puts her at high risk for the disease. Wade underwent a double mastectomy in December 2023 and will eventually need to have a hysterectomy and her ovaries removed to prevent ovarian cancer.
“It’s a heavy process,” she says. “It’s expensive. It’s draining. It’s stressful.” Wade has known other friends who have done IVF to conceive and watching them struggle to be heard by their own doctors made Wade reflect on the rarely discussed pain of infertility. She wrote the song in one take, and when she played it for Wells and her band, they all cried.
“I think back to when I was in high school, and I thought you graduate, you go to college, and you get married and you have kids,” she says. “I watch everyone around me, all these strong, beautiful women in my life that have children. When you really sit back and think about what a woman's body can do, that’s a powerful thing.”
Wade’s fourth album quickly follows 2024’s Obsessed, which was the first album solely written by Wade. Since debuting in 2021 with Reckless, Wade has found herself gaining considerable attention and acclaim amongst her country and roots music peers as well as musicians in the rock and pop world. She’s toured with everyone from Eric Church and Chris Stapleton to Alanis Morissette, Joan Jett and, most recently, Shinedown. Her music has even gained considerable traction overseas, rare for a singer in her field.
Now, with a collection of songs written when she was quite young, Wade can see not only how far she’s come but how far along she already was back then.
“I was a little bit nervous and I had to get out of my head with it,” she says of dusting these off. “As a 19 year old kid, I wrote these songs myself, so I had to look at it from that view. There's a lot of good memories that came back, but even the painful things that I was reflecting on, I was still glad.”
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