She put together some ideas and then took them to one of her songwriting sessions. When Clark agreed to contribute a new track to Morning Edition's Song Project series, she wasn't sure what it was going to be about at first, but eventually landed on the idea of putting herself in the shoes of a person experiencing real loss. I really hit a fatigue factor with it, like, wow, when are we going to get out of this?' 'When this started, everything that I had on the books, as far as songwriting, switched to Zoom. I need other people to inspire me,' Clark says. When you don't get that, it does start to dry up a little bit.
'I've seen how many songs have come from me through conversations - like meeting for coffee and talking to a girlfriend and she's talking to me about her marriage, and from that comes a song idea. After her tour got canceled, Clark started seeing people less - a real problem for someone who likes to write about other people. The Nashville artist put out an album in March 2020, right when the pandemic was starting to shut everything down. Brandy Clark's new track for the Morning Edition Song Project is about processing death and celebrating a life well lived.īrandy Clark is known for her vivid character sketches.
