Grammy-nominated and CMA Award-winning singer, songwriter, and musician Brandy Clark will release her highly anticipated new album, Your Life is a Record, March 6 on Warner Records (pre-order). In advance of the release, the first single, Who You Thought I Was, is out todaylisten/share HERE.
Of the song, Clark shares, The seed of the song came from something that John Prine said a couple of years ago at the Americana Awards. He walked out onstage at the Ryman and everyone stood up and clapped for what felt like five minutes. When everyone sat down, he said with a little laugh, Well, Im John Prine, but Id like to go back to being who you thought I was. Man that hit me. The songwriter in me instantly knew it was a song and the heart in me knew it was how I had felt in my own life many times. I mean who of us hasnt let somebody down or wanted to be the version of ourselves that someone who loved us thought we were?
Already receiving advance notice, NPR Musics Ann Powers proclaims, NPR Musics Ann Powers declares, Breakthroughs dont always have to come for brand new artists, and continues, [Your Life is a Record] sounds like an instant classic. It sounds vintage, it evokes classic 60s country albums, but it also sounds completely contemporary, while Rolling Stone recently included it as one of their 70 Most Anticipated Albums of 2020.
Produced by award winning producer Jay Joyce, the 11-track album was recorded largely as an intimate acoustic four-piecefeaturing Clark, Joyce, Giles Reaves and Jedd Hugheswith subsequent Memphis strings and horns layered in with arrangements by Lester Snell. Created after the dissolution of a long-term relationship, the album features Clarks most personal songwriting to date along with special guest appearances from Randy Newman (Bigger Boat) and guitarist John Osborne (Bad Car).
In celebration of the release, Clark will tour extensively throughout 2020 including a series of winter tour dates with Tanya Tucker on the CMT Next Women of Nashville Tour. The run features stops at Philadelphias World Café Live, New Yorks Town Hall, Memphis Graceland Soundstage among many others. Additionally, beginning in March, Clark will embark on her headlining Who You Thought I Was Tour, which includes special album release shows at Nashvilles 3rd & Lindsley on March 29, Los Angeles Lodge Room on April 7 and Chicagos The Space on May 8. Tickets go on-sale next Friday, January 17 at 10:00 am local time. See below for complete details.
A six-time Grammy nominee and CMA Awards Song of the Year recipient, Clark is one of her generations most respected and celebrated songwriters and musicians. Her songs include Kacey Musgraves Follow Your Arrow, Miranda Lamberts Mamas Broken Heart, The Band Perrys Better Dig Two and Hailey Whitters Ten Year Town, which was just named #2 on Rolling Stones 25 Best Country and Americana Songs of 2019 round up. Her two solo albums2013s 12 Stories and 2016s Big Day in a Small Towneach garnered immense critical acclaim landing on Best of the Year lists at New York Magazine, Billboard, NPR Music Entertainment Weekly, Rolling Stone, Stereogum, etc. NPR Musics Ann Powers calls her, a storyteller of the highest caliber, while Rolling Stones Will Hermes declares, a country visionary the consolation of a beautiful voice delivering a well-built song, cold truth rising from it like fog off dry ice.
YOUR LIFE IS A RECORD TRACK LIST
- Ill Be the Sad Song
- Long Walk
- Love is a Fire
- Pawn Shop
- Who You Thought I Was
- Apologies
- Bigger Boat (feat. Randy Newman)
- Bad Car
- Who Broke Whose Heart
- Can We Be Strangers
- The Past is the Past
BRANDY CLARK CONFIRMED TOUR DATES
January 25Oslo, NorwayInterstate 20
January 27Copenhagen, DenmarkIdeal Bar, Vega Musikkens Hus
January 29Amsterdam, NetherlandsParadiso
January 31Gateshead, U.K.The Sage Gateshead, Hall 1
February 1Glasgow, U.K.St. Lukes
February 5Vienna, VAThe Barns at Wolf Trap*
February 6Philadelphia, PAWorld Café Live*
February 7New York, NY Town Hall*
February 20Memphis, TNGraceland Soundstage*
February 21Springfield, MOGillioz Theatre*
February 22Wichita, KSTemplelive Wichita
February 24Columbia, MOThe Blue Note
February 25Lincoln, NEBourbon Theatre
February 27Sioux Fallas, NDThe District
February 28Fargo, NDFargo Theatre
February 29Hinckley, MNGrand Casino Hinckley
March 28St. Louis, MOOff Broadway
March 29Nashville, TN3rd and Lindsley
March 31Houston, TXWhite Oak
April 1Austin, TXThe Parish
April 7Los Angeles, CALodge Room
April 8San Francisco, CAGreat American Music Hall
April 10Portland, ORAlberta Rose Theatre
April 11Seattle, WAShowbox Theatre
April 13Salt Lake City, UTThe State Room
April 14Denver, COGlobe Hall
April 16Omaha, NEThe Waiting Room
April 17Minneapolis, MNFineline
April 18Des Moines, IAWoolys
April 20Ann Arbor, MIThe Ark
April 21Cleveland, OHBeachland
April 22Pittsburgh, PAThe Rex
April 24Uncasville, CTWolf Den
April 27Boston, MABrighton Music Hall
May 1Alexandria, VABirchmere
May 2Charlotte, NCMcGlohon
May 4Atlanta, GATerminal West
May 5Birmingham, ALSaturn
May 7Louisville, KYHeadliners
May 8Chicago, ILThe Space
May 9Indianapolis, INVogue
May 11Madison, WIMajestic Theatre
May 13Kansas City, MOSaloon @ Knuckleheads
May 14Oklahoma City, OKTower Theatre
*with Tanya Tucker as part of the CMT Next Women of Country Tour
Who You Thought I Was Tour
BOLD on-sale Friday, January 17 at 10:00am local time