In These Silent Days, the highly anticipated new studio album from six-time Grammy Award-winning singer, songwriter, performer, producer and New York Times Best Selling author Brandi Carlile, will be released October 1 on Low Country Sound/Elektra Records. Ahead of the release, the album’s first single, “Right On Time,” featuring a music video directed by Courteney Cox, is premiering today. Check it out below…
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Of the album, Carlile shares,
“Never before have the twins and I written an album during a time of such uncertainty and quiet solitude. I never imagined that I’d feel so exposed and weird as an artist without the armor of a costume, the thrill of an applause and the platform of the sacred stage.
Despite all this, the songs flowed through—pure and unperformed, loud and proud, joyful and mournful. Written in my barn during a time of deep and personal reckoning.
There’s plenty reflection…but mostly it’s a celebration.
This album is what drama mixed with joy sounds like. It’s resistance and gratitude, righteous anger and radical forgiveness.
It’s the sound of these silent days.”
Inspired by the mining of her own history while writing this year’s #1 New York Times Best Selling memoir Broken Horses (Crown), In These Silent Days was conceived of while Carlile was quarantined at home with longtime collaborators and bandmates Tim and Phil Hanseroth. The ten songs chronicle acceptance, faith, loss and love and channel icons like David Bowie, Freddie Mercury, Elton John and Joni Mitchell—the latter two who, by some sort of cosmic alignment of the stars, have turned out to be close friends in addition to being her biggest heroes and inspirations.
Recorded once again at Nashville’s historic RCA Studio A with producers Dave Cobb and Shooter Jennings, the album features Carlile (vocals, guitar, piano), Tim Hanseroth (vocals, bass), Phil Hanseroth (vocals, guitar), Cobb (guitar, percussion) and Jennings (piano, organ, synth) as well as Chris Powell (drums, percussion), Josh Neumann (strings) and special guests Jess Wolfe and Holly Laessig of Lucius on backing vocals on the track “You And Me On The Rock.”
Carlile will perform select headline shows this year including an upcoming concert at NYC’s Forest Hills Stadium this Friday as well as landmark summer shows at Washington’s Gorge Amphitheatre on August 14 and Colorado’s Red Rocks Amphitheatre with the Colorado Symphony on September 11 and 12. Additionally, her “Girls Just Wanna Weekend” festival will return to the Hard Rock Hotel in Riviera Maya, Mexico February 1-5, 2022. The sold-out vacation destination event will once again feature an all-female-fronted lineup including performances by Carlile, Sheryl Crow, Tanya Tucker, Indigo Girls, Lucius, Margo Price, Yola, KT Tunstall, Allison Russell, Amythyst Kiah and Katie Pruitt as well as special guests. See below for complete tour itinerary. Additional dates to be announced.
N THESE SILENT DAYS TRACKLIST
- Right On Time
- You And Me On The Rock
- This Time Tomorrow
- Broken Horses
- Letter To The Past
- Mama Werewolf
- When You’re Wrong
- Stay Gentle
- Sinners Saints And Fools
10.Throwing Good After Bad
BRANDI CARLILE CONFIRMED TOUR DATES
July 23—Forest Hills, NY—Forest Hills Stadium
July 24—Canandaigua, NY—CMAC
August 14—Quincy, WA—Gorge Amphitheatre
August 20—Portland, ME—Thompson’s Point
August 21—Lenox, MA—Koussevitzky Music Shed
August 28—Vienna, VA—Wolf Trap Center for Performing Arts
September 3—Napa County, CA—BottleRock Napa Valley 2021
September 4—Bend, OR—Les Schwab Amphitheater
September 5—Bend, OR—Les Schwab Amphitheater
September 11—Morrison, CO—Red Rocks Amphitheatre with the Colorado Symphony
September 12—Morrison, CO—Red Rocks Amphitheatre with the Colorado Symphony
September 25—Columbia, MO—Roots N Blues Festival
September 26—Dana Point, CA—Ohana Fest 2021
October 2—Dana Point, CA—Ohana Fest 2021
October 8—New Orleans, LA—New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival
October 21—Miramar Beach, FL—Moon Crush
February 1-5, 2022—Riviera Maya, Mexico—Girls Just Wanna Weekend (SOLD OUT)
April 29, 2022—Indio, CA—Stagecoach Music Festiva
Photo by Neil Krug