Brandy Clark

Brandy Clark – Brandy Clark (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 38:51 minutes | 744 MB | Genre: Pop, Folk
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Brandy Clark has had a hand in so many legacy-boosting songs: “Mama’s Broken Heart” (Miranda Lambert), “Better Dig Two” (The Band Perry), “Biscuits” (Kacey Musgraves), to name just a few. “I’m a songwriter who also sings,” she has said, echoing the ridiculous humility of Karen Carpenter saying she was just a drummer who also happened to sing. Clark’s voice is magic—clear and warm and stirring something ineffable, free of “American Idol” frills and trills. While she’s made some great records in the past, it took putting herself into the producer hands of that other great Brandi (Carlile, who lately has the Midas touch) to really position her voice front and center in the way it deserves. Tender and beautiful, “Buried” adds only guitar as Clark sings “If you don’t want me/ If you’re beyond me,” her voice rising on each “if,” tentative and questioning. It’s also an incredible storytelling tool on the spare “Ain’t Enough Rocks,” about two sisters killing an abuser(“a wolf in daddy’s clothing”) and dumping him in the river. Inspired by a line from Forrest Gump and lit by Derek Trucks’ slow-burn guitar, the song is chilling, not giddy like the Chicks’ “Goodbye Earl” or celebratory like Hardy’s “Wait in the Truck.” Carlile has said that hearing these songs “took me back to the first time I heard Car Wheels on a Gravel Road” by Lucinda Wiliams, and it’s an apt line to draw. You can hear it in tracks like harmonica-kissed “Best Ones” and heat-hazy “Come Back to Me,” with its excellent country chorus. Elsewhere, there are shades of 1980s Rosanne Cash in the epic “Northwest” (an ode to Clark and Carlile’s native Washington State) and smooth and easy “All Over Again,” which gets dressed up with soulful Honkettes-style harmony. Frequent Carlile collaborators Lucius suavely harmonize on “Tell Her You Don’t Love Her.” And Clark and Carlile duet on “Dear Insecurity,” a piano ballad that pulls out all the stops—weeping strings, heartbreaking melody—but finds Carlile appropriately reining in the knockout power of her own voice. Placing the two perfectly side by side, it’s a stunner. And Clark, who knows her way around a bitingly clever verse, gets every little detail right on “She Smoked in the House,” a funny yet heartfelt tribute to her grandmother: “She smoked in the house/ Burnt holes in the couch/ Lipstick-circled butts in the ashtray/ She saved in Folders cans/ Swore credit was a scam/ Bought everything at Sears on layaway … And I hate cigarettes/ But I miss all that smoke.

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Brandy Clark – Your Life is a Record (Deluxe Edition) (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:00:58 minutes | 816 MB | Genre: Pop
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Your Life Is a Record is the third studio album by American country music artist Brandy Clark. It was released on March 6, 2020 via Warner Records. It includes the single “Who You Thought I Was”. The album has received positive critical reception for Clark’s songwriting skills. Despite wide acclaim, it was not as commercially successful as her previous albums, peaking at #46 the country charts and not making the Billboard Top 200 among all albums. It was nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Country Album.

On February 12, 2021, Clark announced that a deluxe edition of the album would be released on March 5, 2021 with six new songs, including live versions of “Pawn Shop” and “Who You Thought I Was” and a new version of “The Past Is the Past” featuring Lindsey Buckingham.
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Brandy Clark – Your Life is a Record (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 39:12 minutes | 489 MB | Genre: Country
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Few artists understand the human condition like 6-time Grammy nominee Brandy Clark. Working again with acclaimed producer Jay Joyce, Your Life is a Record takes her unerring eye for detail and a genre-melting sense of melody to examine personal truths, revelations and emancipations with wit, grace and compassion. Working with just four acoustic-based musicians, intimacy was the goal. Memphis strings and horns, guest appearances from Randy Newman (“Bigger Boat”) and guitarist John Osborne color in the sketches – creating a depth to what is easily Clark’s most revelatory record yet.
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Brandy Clark – 12 Stories (2014/2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 42:20 minutes | 469 MB | Genre: Country
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12 Stories, the debut album from Grammy and CMA-nominated singer-songwriter Brandy Clark. Teaming up with producer Dave Brainard (Jerrod Niemann, Ray Scott), Brandy used her writing gift and distinctly country voice to craft 12 Stories, a record that has touched everyone lucky enough to hear it.
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Brandy Clark – Live from Los Angeles (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 42:00 minutes | 251 MB | Genre: Country
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After critically-acclaimed country recording artist Brandy Clark hit Los Angeles’ renowned Hotel Café last year, Randy Lewis of the Los Angeles Times proclaimed that she is “by and large is handling her transformation from behind-the-scenes songwriter to woman in the spotlight pretty effortlessly”. Her sophomore album, “Big Day In A Small Town”, which garnered her two GRAMMY-nominations and topped “Best Of” lists from critics such as NPR, Rolling Stone, Billboard, Entertainment Weekly, and more. Now, Clark has released digital release of her iconic Hotel Café performance with her first ever live album, “Live From Los Angeles” that Randy Lewis calls “smart to the core”.
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