And so, you know, she’s gonna take special care of that part of the song. None of them have had their voice as their first instrument, and that’s her first instrument. Clearly there wasn’t going to quite so literal a personal touch in the vocal production with a remote setup, but Clark says there was no less attention to vocal nuance with the cross-country gap. Tanya Tucker has remarked upon how Carlile was the first producer who ever went into the vocal booth with her while she was cutting her vocals, let alone stayed there the whole time, tapping out rhythm on her leg while squatting on the floor. So she Zoomed in while we worked, and I was surprised at how well it worked actually.” Says Clark, “I was in Nashville and all the players were in Nashville, and Brandi was in her studio in Washington state. This mini-project had accommodations for the COVID era, of course.
“When we get to do a show together, we cover (Tammy Wynette’s) ‘Stand by Your Man.’ And it’s just poetic to the core,” she laughs - “the gay Brandys getting together to sing ‘Stand By Your Man.’” I mean, how can we not be?“ says Carlile, who figures the two of them have shared bills together at various points over the last five or six years. They’d sung together on the road at a few joint dates over the years, so blood-like harmony was not in doubt, nor were shared sensibilities. It was Tracy Gershon, a mutual friend and one of the top music execs in Nashville, who had the idea to connect the Y-and-I Brandys for some new music. Tom Corson (the label’s co-chairman) believes in is putting out material that’s not on the project, a certain amount of time after, just to breathe more life into a project - and into an artist.” was were offering to every artist that had albums in cycle. office, not Warner Nashville, despite being generally identified as a country artist.) “They offered for me to do a few more things, though it wasn’t just me - I think it’s something Warner L.A. Like, what would Daniel Lanois do if the power went out?”Ĭlark credits her label, Warner Records, with encouraging her to do something extracurricular following the release earlier this year of her Jay Joyce-produced “Your Life Is a Record” album.
in mind for the operative vibe of the two new songs: “We all went into this thing with like Emmylou Harris’s ‘Wrecking Ball’ in our periphery, and the mantra was kind of organic Lanois.
“I love Brandi,” says Brandy, “and I love the things that she’s done production-wise” (which include Tanya Tucker’s Grammy-winning “While I’m Livin’” album and back-to-back Secret Sisters records), “so I had somewhere in my mind thought, ‘Oh, you know, maybe we’ll do something together some time.’ I don’t know if it’s an opportunity that would’ve come had COVID not been in play, which I guess we all have to find the silver lining for.”Ĭarlile says they had an m.o. (Carlile also sings backup on the forthcoming song, though she does not get featured billing there.) Variety got on the phone with both artists, separately, to discuss the even greater number of things they now have in common now besides consonance and being two of the most accomplished singer-songwriters of their shared time. “Same Devil” is one of two new Clark songs produced by Carlile, the other one of which, “Like Mine,” will follow the new song onto digital services next week. “We call ourselves BC squared,” laughs Carlile. Some unofficial shorthand can come into play. That has come to pass with this week’s release of “Same Devil,” a harmonic convergence of names and voices that features the billing we might have thought possible only in fiction: “ Brandy Clark featuring Brandi Carlile.” 1 hit in 1972 with the classic “Brandy (You’re a Fine Girl),” would surely have had its collective head explode had it lived to see the combined fineness of a collaboration between the two preeminent Brandi-/-ys of the 21 st century.
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