Maggie Antone

One Liner: Varied selection of cover tunes turned into a nice little country set

Wikipedia Genre: No Wikipedia, but I'd call this Country

Home: Richmond, VA

Sunday at 12:15 on the Big River Stage.

Thoughts:  Well, I already like her name because Antone's is a dope old club.  And I've already heard her voice, even if I didn't realize it, because she is featured on a song by 49 Winchester, who was here last year, and Willow Avalon, who is here this year.  She has a distinctive voice for sure.

Her bio that is repeated in multiple places says that she won her parents over from a young age by singing along to the radio from her carseat, enough that they supported her through voice lessons, musical theater, and National Anthem gigs around their hometown of Richmond, VA.  She put out a cover of a Tyler Childers song that went viral, and after an album of covers, she fired out a real album of her own tunes, with a bunch of top tier collaborators in the writing room.

2022's Interpretations features two Childers tracks ("Lady May" and "Feathered Indians"), Dolly's "Jolene," Prine's "Spanish Pipe Dream," Blink 182's "Adam's Song," and then two I had to look up - Beyonce with "Daddy Lessons" and David Gray with "This Year's Love."  That is an extremely varied little jukebox!  The two Childers tunes are the top streamers, this is "Lady May" with 2.4 million.

The album version she did for that 2022 thing is better - cleaner, with better vocals for sure.  One album, other than the covers disc, 2024's Rhinestoned.  It has two songs that seem to have clicked, some are as low as 72k streams, but the top one is "Johnny Moonshine" with 5.7 million streamarooos.

MAGOOOOGGIE is for lovers?  Mmmmkay.  Catchy for sure, and her voice has a classic lilt to it that is really nice.  The lyrics to "suburban outlaw" are even better, with her taking down some dickhead guy.  None of this is going to change my life, but it's nice, legitimate country music.