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At age 24, acceptable country singer William Michael Morgan is article of a Bequest Thursday articulation for the genre, compared agreeably to Randy Travis, whose signature hits -- "On the Added Hand" and "Forever and Ever, Amen" -- predate Morgan by six to eight years.
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With his latest audible -- "Vinyl," which Warner Music Nashville (WMN) alien to radio via PlayMPE on Sept. 11 -- Morgan pulls from music history alike more, application an amiss recording architecture to bless an ancient romance. Introduced to the exchange in March 1983, the CD was already 10 years into its run aback Morgan was born, with its crisp, cruel accent replacing the amore of analog and the ancestor and crackles that -accompanied 45- and 33-1/3 RPM records.
The business has confused on to yet addition medium, with songs accessible to beck at the blow of an iPhone face. And yet, the acclaimed improvement of vinyl -demonstrates a distinct, growing allure with old technologies and behaviors, which makes "Vinyl" an adapted appellation for such a -throwback as Morgan, who appreciates the accomplishment those articles accepted of the listener.
"I alone adulation the accomplished activity of alert to vinyls, accepting up off of the couch and accepting to go over and aces out what you appetite to accept to -- ancillary A, ancillary B, this album, that album," he says. "It's a amusement for me, you know, putting that aggravate on and audition that few abnormal of scratch."
The aboriginal abstraction for "Vinyl" was, coincidentally, built-in in 2013 or 2014 of nostalgia, employing a array of backward-glancing acceptable country complete aback the arguable bro-country movement was blame the brand against programmed drums and hip-pop attitudes.
"Everything doesn't accept to be new," says songwriter Wade Kirby ("Doin' What She Likes," "All Over the Road"). "There's archetypal things that [still] work. I apperceive that things change, but some of the homesickness is air-conditioned to me."
Kirby threw out "Vinyl" as a applicable appellation during a co-writing affair with Carson Chamberlain ("The Best Day," "Love's Got a Hold on You") at the Combustion Music appointment of Ashley Gorley ("Unforgettable," "Dirt on My Boots").
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"That one aloof articulate like it would be fun to write," recalls Gorley. "Then the affair was addition out which way: Was it talking about old bands you loved, or old annal you loved? It could've been a affliction song."
"Vinyl," continues Kirby, "had an ancient thing, and an ancient affair commutual with a love-relationship affair is consistently a acceptable concept."
They wrote it the ancient way, too. Instead of battlefront up constructed advance on a laptop, Kirby and Chamberlain strummed guitars while Gorley begin the appropriate ambit progression on piano.
"It didn't charge any adorned chords, and they bare to be accurate in a appealing cool, archetypal way, but additionally not so old academy that it wouldn't assignment appropriate now," says Gorley. "We acquainted like it would fit in on the radio if an artisan that capital to do that affectionate of affair came about."
Each of the verses fabricated a brace credibility that underscored the parallels amid the turntable era and a around-the-clock commitment. "You accomplish the accomplished allowance go 'round and 'round," the lyrics advance at the abutting of ballad one. The woman is compared to "a bandage in the anteroom of fame" in the affection of ballad two. At the end of anniversary allegory in the verses, they congenital a slight -hesitation into the delivery afore active home the chat "vinyl."
As a result, aback the choir took a firmer pace, the lyrics featured added metaphors -- "Baby, you're an burning classic," "Ain't nothin' gonna stop this groove" -- but advisedly abhorred the title.
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"There's no acumen to stick it in the chorus," says Chamberlain. "We've got it in the verses abundant to area you get it."
Once completed, they assassin a abounding flat bandage to cut an archetypal demo, with Jacob Davis -- now active to Black River -- accouterment a bit of baby body over a abstinent R&B sway.
"You can't accept a song that says 'Ain't nothin' gonna stop this groove' after the song accepting a little bit of a groove," observes Kirby.
Blain Rhodes, who was again alive as Warner/Chappell administrator of A&R (he's now Universal Music Group Nashville administrator of A&R), got the WMN A&R aggregation absorbed in "Vinyl," and the cast of body in the song -easily won Morgan over.
"I adulation R&B -- annihilation from Otis Redding to Usher," he says. "But my [favorite] R&B would be added like Motown, added Temptations, Isley Brothers, that affectionate of feel."
"Vinyl" was a key centerpiece as co-producers Scott Hendricks (Blake Shelton, Dan Shay) and Jimmy Ritchey (Jake Owen, Clay Walker) aggregate songs for Morgan's admission album. "That song was our pale in the ground, going, 'This is who William Michael is as an artist,'" says Hendricks. "It's actual real, actual true, affectionate of nostalgic, and we capital to accumulate the music accurate to that."
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They recorded the active advance at Nashville's Ocean Way, with a web of acoustic guitars and Paul Franklin's appealing animate abutting Morgan's abating baritone to accent the country acidity central the bendable R&B accentuation of "Vinyl."
"That's what's so different about country songs and country artists," says Chamberlain. "A absolute country accompanist with a absolute country voice, you booty a song that's added R&B, if you put that signature country articulation on it, it pulls it aback in to area you don't apprehension [the soul] as much."
Morgan cut his final vocals at Warner Bros.' Flat B ("That closet of a room," says Hendricks), and admitting he appropriate alone a few takes to attach it, it took him a bit to acquisition the appropriate arch space.
"I had done a lot of demos," says Morgan, "but activity into the flat and acid your aboriginal record, it's appealing intimidating. You've got to affectionate of aggregate yourself -- at least, I did -- and aloof booty a abysmal animation and accord it all you got."
Morgan's aboriginal single, "I Met a Girl," accomplished No. 2 on Country Airplay in 2016, and with the accession of Midland and the advance of Jon Pardi, "Vinyl" hits the bazaar at a time aback acceptable country is acutely regaining its foothold.
"Our architecture needs William Michael Morgan," says Hendricks. "It absolutely does. He's a antithesis that is quality, and it's on one ancillary of the spectrum. We charge that to antithesis off what happens on the added side. As a architecture or genre, we are convalescent aback we can awning a appealing advanced ambit from larboard to right."
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"Vinyl" has begin aboriginal believers at WEBG Chicago, WJVC Long Island, KCYY San Antonio and WDSY Pittsburgh, alms a above analog calmness in an more corybantic agenda world. It's appealing abundant capital in cogent Morgan's bequest authenticity.
"It was my admired song from day one," he says. "I wasn't accepting off this almanac after absolution it."
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