The Show on the Road – Brandy Clark
By Z. Lupetin
This week, we bring you a conversation with one of Nashville's supreme songwriters: Brandy Clark.
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Born in a logging town in Washington state, Clark started playing guitar at age 9 before setting it aside and getting a scholarship for basketball. Music kept tugging her back in though. Like a modern Patsy Cline, she has a knack for nailing a heartbreaker. Reba recorded two of her songs in ("Cry," "The Day She Got Divorced") and Brandy soon found a valuable mentor in Marty Stuart, who helped her make her Opry debut in 2012.
While you may just be learning about Clark's stellar solo work, which mixes old school and witty new school country with some of the tightest pop hooks in the game, Clark has been co-writing for some of country and rock's leading ladies for years, like Miranda Lambert, Kacey Musgraves, LeAnn Rimes and Sheryl Crow to name a few. But it was with her lyrically masterful, lushly-orchestrated 2020 LP Your Life Is A Record that doors started opening in a whole new way. 2021 saw an extended deluxe version drop.
In this unearthed conversation (blame a faulty hard-drive), we go through her darkest breakup songs, hear about her tastiest kiss-offs and discuss her unique perspective of Nashville's Music Row Boys' Club.
Don't miss the end of the taping when Brandy discusses teaming up with her songwriting hero Randy Newman on the cheeky tune "Bigger Boat" and she plays an exclusive acoustic performance.
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