Anti-Corp Music’s fan favorite series, The Magnolia Sessions, have released two new albums from Coleman Williams and Joe’s Truck Stop. The Magnolia Sessions was launched by owner Dan Emery in 2020 to showcase bluegrass, dark country, and folk singer/songwriter acts, recorded live in an intimate outdoor setting. The setting happens to be a large magnolia tree at the Anti-Corp/Black Matter Mastering headquarters in Nashville, Tennessee.
The series has launched albums of many artists: Lost Dog Street Band, The Hill Country Devil, Joe Wunderle, Cooper McBean, The Resonant Rogues, Matt Heckler, Jason Dea West, Johno Leeroy, Cristina Vane, Nick Hans, Casper Allen, Jeff Loops, Angela Autumn, Tyler Hood, Jade Brodie, Douglas Francisco, Ivan McLeod, Austin Stambaugh, and Willi Carlisle.
After some activities of three sessions, the series was on hold. Later in late 2024, it was brought back to life with the release of Willi Carlisle. It was released to aid the victims of Hurricane Helene. The next two installments happen in 2025 with the releases from Coleman Williams and Joe’s Truck Stop.
You can stream Coleman Williams’ album here and Joe’s Truck Stop’s album here.
Coleman Williams shares his thoughts:
“Doing one of The Magnolia Sessions is something I honestly never thought I would do. It took me time to believe in myself without a band behind me. I love spinning yarns and telling stories with music. This old tree has heard a couple now and didn’t complain. I hope y’all like them too.”
Dan Emery of Anti-Corp Music and Black Matter Mastering says:
“I cannot put into words how completely honored I am to be able to introduce the world to Coleman Williams’ solo material. As an artist, he stands on his own and creates from his vision despite the more predatory aspects of the music industry, drooling like cartoon coyotes at the thought of cashing in on his family name and making him do some song and dance. For him to do this project with my humble ass is speaking truth to the spirit that is the foundation of what Anti-Corp was created on!”
Joe’s Truck Stop founder Joe Macheret shares his thoughts:
“These sessions were recorded at a pretty tumultuous time in my life. Getting over a vocal cord injury and maneuvering career changes amongst other circumstances had me in a rough spot. I’m ever grateful to my collaborators, Joe Wunderle, Tebbs Karney, and Ilya Portnov, who helped keep the spirits high, and I’m grateful to Dan Emery, who two years later insisted we get these recordings out in the world. These are songs I’ve written from my last fifteen years of songwriting, plus two covers by a couple of my heroes, Ola Belle Reed and Woody Guthrie.”
Dan Emery of Anti-Corp Music and Black Matter Mastering also says:
“We recorded this session twice. The first time we did it, Joe had been just outside the wildfires out west, and as a result of all the smoke in the region, his vocals suffered. When we came back and recorded it again, he had recently recovered from another vocal injury but was still working through some issues. It just so happened that when we recorded this second one, I was starting to feel the burnout that was looming from the aggressive schedule of the first two years of The Magnolia Sessions recordings, which caused me to put the project on hiatus. After sitting on these recordings for almost two years, I came back to them and was amazed at how well they sounded. Given Joe’s apprehensiveness about how his voice may have sounded due to his injury, we were all pleasantly surprised at how everything turned out.”
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