Her father died in a mill accident and she grew up touring pageants with her mom in a band called Sagebrush and Satin. But homosexual singer-songwriter Brandy Clark is far from your average country starBy the time Easter came round,Brandy Clark had spent just three days of 2016 at domestic in Nashville. The radio tour for her moment record, ample Day in a Small Town, and started on the fifth day of the year,even though it wasnt out until June, taking her to two or three different stations a day. “It ain’t for a sissy, or I’ll tell you that,” says the 40-year-old songwriter of this cutthroat underside of country. Not that she’s complaining. “I’ve never been somebody who was afraid of hard work. You want your music heard by the most possible people. If somebody says anything different, they’re lying.”
And Clarks music speaks to a vast audience who weren’t hearing themselves in country. She writes songs for the workers who maintain America spinning, and the overburdened mothers putting themselves final,the women in middle age struggling to reconcile their faith with their need for relief, be it romantic or chemical. The characters in her songs are coupon-clippers, or mums working in diners,faded homecoming queens, farmers so poor “the fleas have left the hound”. We're shaped by our decisions. And oftentimes by our infamous decisions more than our estimable ones Related: Drugs, and casual sex and black comedy: the country music revolution Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com