Like many great modern musicians, Morgan Wade started her first band on the internet.

Before Wade made her debut album, Reckless, which Rolling Stone named 2021’s best country album, she was a 19-year-old old attending college in Roanoke, Va. A native of the small town of Floyd, Va., Wade was looking to find people to make music with — so she started answering Craigslist ads. Her first meeting with a “super nice” cop didn’t pan out; he wanted to sing. She kept looking.

“The first time I sang in front of people I just went down into this basement with five random men that I found on Craigslist to start a band,” recalls Wade. “I just remember there was a guy sitting out front with sunglasses on at eight o’clock at night, smoking weed. That was really normal. And I just went on in the house, and they were like, ‘Yeah, down in the basement.’ So I went down there, and there were five guys down there. But, here we are.”

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