Culture
Maggie II Radio A Sessions
By: Emily Votaw
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Prior to the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, WOUB recorded a number of regional bands performing in our Radio A Studio space. Some of the sessions were recorded almost two years ago, and WOUB Culture is proud to finally present them, like an artifact from the distant past.
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Hailing from Gallipolis, Maggie emanates a sleek, anthemic, sonically dense energy anchored by driving percussion and soaring, lustrous guitar riffs. The band brought their distinct stylings to WOUB’s Radio A in 2019, recording renditions of three originals in the studio.
Maggie launched into their set with “Coal,” a passionate, melancholic musical reflection on the scarring of Appalachia by its most exploitative industry and the clamoring echo of its associated generational trauma. They followed it up with “Dirty Floors,” a modern dithyramb of sorts dedicated to a peculiarly Appalachian flavor of hopeless romanticism. Maggie closed their Radio A set with “Wildfire,” a pensive anthem to the simultaneous might of a mountainous landscape and the raucous human emotional dramas capable of playing out within it.