Clark goes deluxe with "Your Life is a Record"
The deluxe version has six bonus tracks including "Remember Me Beautiful," a new song Clark wrote earlier this year as part of NPR's Morning Edition Song Project. The album will also feature collaborations with Brandi Carlile ("Like Mine" and "Same Devil") and Lindsey Buckingham ("The Past is the Past") as well as live renditions of two album tracks: "Pawn Shop" and "Who You Thought I Was," the latter of which is out today.
The track list is:
1. I'll Be the Sad Song
2. Long Walk
3. Love is a Fire
4. Pawn Shop
5. Who You Thought I Was
6. Apologies
7. Bigger Boat (feat. Randy Newman)
8. Bad Car
9. Who Broke Whose Heart
10. Can We Be Strangers
11. The Past is the Past
12. Who You Thought I Was (Live From 3rd & Lindsley)
13. Pawn Shop (Live From 3rd & Lindsley)
14. Remember Me Beautiful
15. Like Mine
16. Same Devil (feat. Brandi Carlile)
17. The Past is the Past (feat. Lindsey Buckingham)
Clark will perform her first ticketed livestream concert Saturday, March 6 at 8 p.m. eastern via Mandolin.
Clark is nominated for two awards at the 63rd GRAMMY Awards: Best Country Album ("Your Life is a Record") and Best Country Solo Performance ("Who You Thought I Was") and Outstanding Music Artist at the 2021 GLAAD Media Awards.
Clark has penned many songs for other artists including Kacey Musgraves' "Follow Your Arrow," Miranda Lambert's "Mama's Broken Heart," The Band Perry's "Better Dig Two" and Hailey Whitter's "Ten Year Town." Her past two solo albums—2013's "12 Stories" and 2016's "Big Day in a Small Town."
More news for Brandy Clark
- 02/10/25: Carpenter, Clark join forces
- 02/04/24: Stapleton, Isbell & The 400 Unit take two GRAMMYS each
- 01/26/24: Clark heads South with new tour dates
- 12/14/23: Clark, Russell return to school
- 12/08/23: Clark releases "Dear Insecurity" with Carlile
- 10/27/23: Clark sings of "My Favorite Christmas"
- 10/10/23: Clark releases "Dear Insecurity" video
- 07/14/23: Clark, McKenna tour together
CD reviews for Brandy Clark
The purpose for 'deluxe editions' of albums is not entirely clear, except perhaps to breathe new life into an aging album. This marketing ploy is especially curious in the case of Brandy Clark's "Your Life is a Record." After all, this already is a fully satisfying album, so why the seconds? However, more Brandy Clark is never a bad thing, so we'll take it.
This new edition includes a couple of live versions of album songs. Both "Who You Thought I Was" and ...
Whenever Brandy Clark's "Your Life is a Record" is described as the work of a smart, female singer/songwriter - an inevitable characterization - you may immediately picture 11 sophisticated pop songs. And make no mistake about it; this music is sophisticated - sophisticated enough, in fact, to attract pop songwriter extraordinaire Randy Newman for a duet on "Bigger Boat." Surprisingly, though, much of the music contained within is also more organic than one might have ...
There are two components to Brandy Clark. First is her songwriting, which gained her much street cred, penning songs for the likes of Miranda Lambert ("Mama's Broken Heart" with Kacey Musgraves and Shane McAnally), The Band Perry ("Better Dig Two"), Keith Urban, Reba McEntire and a slew for Musgraves and Jennifer Nettles. And then there's her own artistic career with her major label debut finally coming close to three years after her extremely well-received (with ...
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