With an invigorating blend of soul, roots, blues and gospel, exceptionally versatile vocalist/songwriter Maggie Rose is writing her own pop and soul success script with the recently released Change The Whole Thing. The album is Rose’s first full-length record release in five years and commands the attention of fans and onlookers. In 2018, Rose was named a YouTube Emerging Artist and a Pandora Artist to Watch. She was featured in Southwest’s Live at 35 program and in a National Land O’Lakes ad campaign focused on women empowerment.
Quickly being recognized as a formidable force in the pop-soul, jam-band arena, Rose recently performed aboard the Cayamo Cruise with performers including Emmylou Harris, Jason Isbell and Dawes and performed alongside Bob Weir during the Sweetwater in the Sun festival. She recently opened select tour dates for Kelly Clarkson’s Meaning Of Life Tour and is currently touring nationwide on her headlining Change The Whole Thing tour. Rose recently made her National TV debut on NBC’s Today Show and she is slated to make her live performance debut at the 2019 Peach Music Festival in July. Change The Whole Thing coincides with a documentary about the making of the album, to be released at a later date. 
With Change The Whole Thing, Rose worked to capture the energy and authenticity that fans were drawn to in her live performances out on the road. Recording in an entirely different format than is typical for her, she surrounded herself with some of her best-friends and a skilled team of collaborators. With musicians including members of the Morrison Brothers Band and Them Vibes, Maggie’s creative freedom began to unfold in a remarkable way during the live tracking session at Starstruck Studios, highlighting what the rising star is truly capable of.
Glide is thrilled to premiere the official video for “Right On” (below) featuring Nashville’s Americana stalwarts Them Vibes, bring together a groove ensemble laded foundation akin to Sly and The Family Stone. When collaborations like this work so effortlessly, one thinks back to the magic of Aerosmith/Run DMC & Queen/Bowie for what the potential of two like-minded artists can mold. “Right On was written by Alex Haddad, Brother Love and Kyle Lewis of Them Vibes.
“Them Vibes and I thrive on this collaborative energy that we share. I sang on their last record, they were huge contributors on mine and they’ve been touring with me for over a year, so the love you hear on this track is real and we get to bring that to the audience,” says Rose about the collaboration.
“This was one of those special songs that came together effortlessly,” says Brother Love of Them Vibes “From the outset it clearly had a Sly And the Family Stone vibe so in keeping with that tone we had to have our soul sister number one doing what she does which always takes us higher.”
“The question became how do we capture the feel of Right On visually. The answer: invite all of our friends, roll camera, and throw the biggest 70’s dance party of 2019,” adds Alex Haddad of Them Vibes
Bringing out a timeless and classic feel, the live sessions allowed for Rose’s powerhouse voice to ring through with evidence of the influences that were instrumental in her upbringing including Bonnie Raitt, Etta James and Aretha Franklin. She self-arranged the vocal lines captured in songs like “Do Right By My Love” and “Magic Man,” fully embracing the creative freedom to propel her in the direction she wanted to go. That artistic freedom also bled into her writing sessions.
She incorporated personal sentiments and storylines about her own real-life relationship in “Pull You Through,” a song that swings to a 6/8 rhythmic backdrop and she tackled some of her toughest life moments in “Change The Whole Thing,” about abandoning the feelings of complacency. Rolling Stone said, “Maggie Rose has come into her own with this current earth-conscious, trippy country-soul stage of her ever-evolving musical persona…Rose’s performances [during Bonnaroo] showed her embracing her inner soul diva, belting with fire on ‘It’s You’ and the pulverizing ‘Pull You Through.’ Just to drive the point home, Rose and her band even stretched out on a swinging cover of ‘The Letter,’ doing a more-than-respectable impression of the funky Mad Dogs & Englishmen arrangement originally sung by Joe Cocker.”
