Chris Willman Music WriterBrandi Carlile is at that nexus in her 15-year-plus recording career where this is the first time that the debut single from a new album has landed as an event.
Not so many people were looking when she released “The Joke,” the first track off her slowly- star-making “By the Way, I Forgive You” album, three and a half years ago.
Needless to say, her profile is higher now — and she’s dressed for the occasion in “Right on Time,” her new single and Courteney Cox-directed video, which came out early Wednesday.For fans of the classic singer-songwriter form, there’s no more anticipated album this year than the one Carlile has coming this fall.
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