{"product_id":"reese-mchenry-with-spider-bags-bad-girl","title":"Reese McHenry with Spider Bags - Bad Girl","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFrom the fine folks at Sophomore Lounge:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eSome artists wait for a great record to eventually come out of their efforts. Other records wait for their respective artists to become great enough to finally complete them.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eWhen McHenry first began working on this batch of material with producer, co-songwriter, and key collaborator Dan McGee (of fellow Triangle-area garage country cohorts \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ca href=\"\/collections\/spider-bags\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSpider Bags\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003ci\u003e) over half a decade ago, the music scene acquaintances who merely admired each other's rock n roll outfits from a passing distance (McHenry then the defining force behind Durham's Dirty Little Heaters) couldn't possibly have known the gravity of the journey that lay ahead of their newfound friendship.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eAt the end of the day, \u003c\/i\u003eBad Girl\u003ci\u003e is, by design, a singer's record. In the traditional sense, with its considerate balance of material written by her, for her by others, and\/or by others all together, the collection as a whole is offered to us, in song, by a modern woman faced with the every-day trials of love and growth, and the pains that mark their passing. From the album-opening title track, a gender perspective-swapping garage-wop take on Lee Moses' timeless original, to the b-side's soon-to-be American standard \"Concrete Roses,\" inked by McHenry herself and recorded live in one take - complete with Forbes masterfully playing brushes on a pizza box - without even having previously heard McGee's arrangement for it (after the tape stopped rolling, everyone wept), there's an almost cinematic quality throughout the long-player's narrative. It's the tale of a woman who tries her best to do good, to not be bad, but as we all know, life is rarely so black-and-white. It's what she overcomes along the way that gives her color - that not only gives her a voice, but strengthens it by giving her something to sing. And if you ask me, or just about any schmuck from Chapel Hill to Hollywood, we'd be hard-pressed to find another protagonist as easy to root for as our very own Reese McHenry - singer, survivor, \u003c\/i\u003eBad Girl\u003ci\u003e.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"merge records","offers":[{"title":"LP","offer_id":52739212149047,"sku":"SL089lp","price":18.98,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0966\/3935\/3143\/files\/9b82386b9846212dfd71f63e788d9bfa0977ba07_c6388d52def0aa0c7f4ec2072dd06d44a5511c74_medium_jpg.jpg?v=1785381276","url":"https:\/\/mergerecords.com\/products\/reese-mchenry-with-spider-bags-bad-girl","provider":"Merge Records","version":"1.0","type":"link"}