Jade Brodie is a Railroading songstress from Winnemucca, Nevada. Brodie’s songs are inspired by the away from home lifestyle of railroad work and the working-class hero. She writes songs with simple poetry and a heavy train beat. Originally from the near coastal towns of Sonoma County, she bounced around until she found a good life in Winnemucca.
Glide is thrilled to premiere the music video for Jade Brodie’s new psychedelic alt-country banger, “Making History.” Brodie croons with tangible feeling and raw emotion. A sense of risk and vulnerability in the vocal delivery is ever-present as she dances across a swinging fiddle landscape tinted by warm and distorted guitar musing. “Making History” is a song built on a steady foundation of in the pocket groove and colorful Americana instrumentation. We get the sense that Jade Brodie is only beginning to scratch the surface of the beauty that she is bound to create.
“Making History” is about a struggle I’ve seen common to myself and my coworkers on the Railroad. I’ve noticed that we work so much and find so much pride and comfort in our jobs that we begin to distance ourselves from our families. A lot of people end up divorced and alone. So… we work to have a family but then our family is lost because of our work. There’s not alot of ladies around in my profession so you hear about them like they’re legends. It feels like I’m doing something important, I stand out, “I’m making history”. But at a cost of losing my family and my connection to my loved ones. “What does it mean, you’re making history. What does it mean if you’re not here with me?”
My goal is to write music people can dance to though I enjoy thinking about contradictions and the push-pulls of relationships. ”
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Jade Brodie fabulous as always!