“We got a space [to record Torres] that really catered to the sound I wanted, a big spacious mansion in Tennessee that’s been around since the civil war. It’s a big haunted space. The house is part of the album. It was crucial - I have no way of knowing how it would have sounded otherwise but I feel the space helped create that haunted, ominous sound I was going for. I think I made the right call.”
Interviewer: When you write about the ghost that crawled inside your guitar on “Honey“, was that because you knew you had made a truly special, transcendent song, as many music writers have speculated? If not, what’s the meaning of that line?
Mackenzie Scott: No, that would have been impressively self-aggrandizing of me, though. I was haunted when I wrote that song. It was more just an acknowledgement that every aspect of my existence was being accessed by something beyond my control, including the tool that I’m used to controlling, that being my guitar.
The recording [of Torres] took place in an old empty house in Franklin, TN. According to Scott the house was haunted and was used as a hospital for wounded Civil War soldiers. Each song of Torres, gives off a haunted isolation vibe.
… After a week of recording in the haunted house, Scott said she had her first encounter with a ghost while packing up her car to leave.
Scott sat up in her chair, leaned in close and said “I took all my stuff back in my car and when I sat down [in the driver’s seat] I noticed my window was down. So, I rolled it back up and then I noticed in the back, the back windows were rolled down. There is no way someone could have been in my car before. Then I realized, ‘Holy shit, there was a ghost in my car.’”
—Interview #1 source, Interview #2 source, Interview #3 source
