Rolling Stone

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.