U.S. Girls guest on Records In My Life

It was instinct that led Meg Remy to blurt out “we should make a record together” to guitarist Dillon Watson at a hotel bar in Arkansas after playing a festival in Hot Springs, setting in motion her latest record Scratch It, out June 20, 2025, which led to their new album Scratch It. Watch Remy talk about some of the records that inspired her new album, and her career as an artist on Records In My Life.

With Watson on guitar, Jack Lawrence (The Dead Weather, The Raconteurs, Loretta Lynn) on bass, Domo Donoho on drums, and both Jo Schornikow and Tina Norwood on keys, the primary players assembled at Bomb Shelter Studio, in Nashville. Remy’s longtime collaborator and life partner Maximilian Turnbull came on to co-produce, with Andrija Tokic engineering. Harmonica legend and the “utility man” himself, Charlie McCoy (Elvis, Bob Dylan, Roy Orbison, among others), would join in on some songs too. In just ten days, Scratch It took form, recorded live off the floor with minimal overdubs and mixed to tape. In this episode of Records In my Life, Remy talked about some of the records that were inspiring her leading up to the recording sessions.

Records and artists referenced by U.S. Girls AKA: Meg Remy on Records In My Life (in no particular order)

Scratch It – U.S. Girls
Bless This Mess – U.S. Girls
Dillon Watson
Jack Lawrence
Charlie McCoy
Jake Clemons
Heavy Light – U.S. Girls
Motown (record label)
The Temptations
Medinah Temple
Bruce Springsteen – Greatest Hits
Billy Joel – Greatest Hits
American Pie – Don McLean
The Doors
The Grateful Dead
Korn
311
Bikini Kill
Sky Saxon & The Seeds
Royal Mountain (record label)
4AD (record label)
Jenny Hval
Aldous Harding
Coughs
The Tragically Hip
Forrest Gump soundtrack
Lightman & Lightman
Sister Smile – Lightman & Lightman
Samuel Beckett
Dig Me Out – Sleater-Kinney