Lady Linn & Her Magnificent Seven - Midnight Sun (2025)

Today Lady Linn & Her Magnificent Seven share the third single The Night The Lights Went Out In Georgia of their upcoming album Midnight Sun, a tribute album to the night which will be released on October 17. The Night The Lights Went Out In Georgia was originally written by Bobby Russell and released by Vicki Lawrence in 1972. The single became a massive hit and reached #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 in the U.S.

Although the song sounds happy, it actually holds a strong political message as it was an indictment of the corrupt justice system in Georgia, USA. The song is told from the perspective of a woman and tells the story of her brother, who returns home and discovers that his wife might be cheating on him with his best friend, Andy. Drunk and angry, he goes to confront Andy. Later, Andy is found dead, and her brother is wrongfully convicted and hanged for the murder. Only at the end does the narrator reveal that she was the one who killed Andy (and also her brother’s wife).

Lady Linn explains her love for this song: "The song’s build up is so good, both musically as lyric wise. I got to know this song a long time ago when I was touring as a guest artist in a project called Murder Ballads."

The song is a perfect example of Lady Linn's new record Midnight Sun, which is a collection of 11 songs from a wide range of artists and genres that inspired her over time. "I only selected songs I have a real connection with, not because they happened to fit the theme of the album." Round Midnight, for instance, is one of the first jazz songs she got to know ("I even used it for an entrance examination once"), and Strangers In The Night reminds her of her grandfather, who introduced her to jazz music and often played the song on organ. An essential artist is Nina Simone, who’s always been a big inspiration for Lady Linn. "She wrote Theme from Middle Of The Night for a movie and the lyrics are so beautiful: “to breakfast with the moon...” I like those old-fashioned, poetic lyrics." But the album is not only jazz standards. Lady Linn’s love for 60s and 70s classic rock is also represented by The Eagles (One Of These Nights), JJ Cale (After Midnight) and Stevie Nicks (Nightbird). "

For Midnight Sun, Lady Linn once again assembled a group of exceptional musicians: Bart Van Caenegem on piano (De Frivole Framboos, Gwen Cresens Eclectica Quartet, Brussels Jazz Orchestra, High Voltage Sextet) , Filip Vandebril on double bass (Black Flower, Antwerp Gipsy Ska Orchestra, Kaaiman, Valerie Solanas, Andy & The Androids), Simon Segers on drums (De Beren Gieren, Black Flower, Sylvie Kreusch, Stadt), Yves Fernandez on trumpet (Monsieur Fernand, Hot Lips, Belle Perez, The Whodads, Admiral Freebee), Frederik Heirman on trombone (Brussels Jazz Orchestra, Lara Rosseel Orchestra, The Whodads, Hellfighter) and Marc De Maeseneer on baritone saxophone (Back Back, Admiral Freebee, The Whodads, Karen Willems Terre Sol 4, Madou). They took a whole year to let the music sink in, record rehearsals, evaluate them and jam together. Each member of the band had a big part in the making of the interpretations.