How Nashville songwriter Michaela Anne's chance meeting with a stripper shaped her new album 'Desert Dove'
Michaela Anne's new album 'Desert Dove' was inspired in part by a chance meeting with a stripper in California.A few years ago, Michaela Anne was at a roadhouse bar outside Joshua Tree, California, where she met a woman named Madeline, who told her she was a stripper. The two got to talking: about their lives, their careers, their mutual love of essential oils.
. The album, released by indie stalwart Yep Roc Records , is a shimmering sonic statement of purpose that cements the 33-year-old artist as a nuanced songwriter with a penchant for telling difficult stories.Anne recorded the record in California, which helped summon the album’s Southwest-noir atmosphere, with its sandy pedal steel feels and West Texas telecaster riffs. “The goal,” she says, “was to create a vibe rather than just a collection of songs.
All of those topics find their way into Anne’s latest work. Songs like “By Our Design,” “Somebody New,” and “Two Fools” assume a tangled emotional morality that point fingers in all directions and refuse to draw any easy conclusions. “Nobody’s all good. Nobody’s just the victim,” says Anne. “Sometimes we’re the ones doing the bad stuff, and sometimes we’re the ones getting scorned, all at the same time. I think it’s really hard to portray all of that in a song, but that’s what I’m intrigued by.
, an old-school country-leaning record inspired by the types of honky-tonk bar gigs she was playing at the time. Looking back on the record now, Anne sees it as, among other things, the type of album she thought she had to make at the time.
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