Randy Houser discusses finding creative fulfillment with new album ‘Magnolia’ on the latest ‘Walking the Floor’ podcast
Houser had a crisis of musical faith several years ago.
Convinced that his refusal to chase after surefire hits would anger his label, Houser began recording“I started recording and started paying for it myself, “he says, “because I was quite sure they were gonna drop me. I just hid the fact that I was recording for a while. And then finally, they caught wind that I was doing something and wanted to come over and listen.” Luckily, the execs liked what they heard. “They gave me my money back and said, ‘Keep going,'” Houser says.
“I used to have this gig at a place called the Shed House, and it was in Meridian,” he remembers. “I slept on the pool table there almost every Friday night. I called it my paper towel pillow and my pool table bed.”shines its light on more than Houser’s big-bodied voice. He plays guitar on the record, too, resulting in a sound that’s raw and compellingly imperfect.record, but during the two records after that, I don’t know if I played one or two songs on there,” he admits.
The song was written after a trip to Nashville honky-tonk the Wild Horse, where a friend of Houser’s would pour free drinks for the penny-pinched songwriters.
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