Brandi Carlile and Tish Melton | Broken Record

Brandi Carlile’s knack for uplifting the musicians she loves is exemplary. After her own hard-earned ascent to fame over the course of seven studio albums, Brandi started to turn her sights to producing albums for artists she deeply admires, including Tanya Tucker who she’s been on Broken Record with in the past but also Brandy Clark. Then there’s Joni Mitchell-who, thanks to Brandi’s encouragement-has recently made a glorious return to performing live.
Brandi’s passion for the projects she works on is infectious. The latest is an EP she produced for 18-year-old singer/songwriter Tish Melton called, When We’re Older. Over the course of the five-song collection, Tish pulls influence from artists like Phoebe Bridgers and Lucy Dacus. Tish, whose mom is the New York Times bestselling author Glennon Doyle, is teeming with talent on her EP, which includes heartfelt songs that expertly capture a wise-beyond-her-years self assuredness.
On today’s episode Leah Rose talks to Tish Melton and Brandi Carlile about their creative partnership and the impermeable sense of self Brandi has found in both Tish and Joni Mitchell. And Brandi teases her upcoming collaboration album that she calls “monumental,” plus she talks about why she thinks Beyonce might be country music’s saving grace.
You can hear a playlist of some of our favorite songs from Tish Melton and Brandi Carlile along with all the tracks mentioned in this episode here: open.spotify.com/playlist/7ye...
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For generations of music lovers, the liner notes on albums were a central part of the way music was heard. You bought an album and it came with an accompanying narrative: a digression, an aside, a backstory-maybe even an invented history. We intuitively understood that great music required not just listening but conversation between the artist and the audience and the audience and the rest of the world.
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[@DoctorJoanieTool]

It’s helpful to have connections. Particularly if that connection is Brandi Carlile. She is so eloquent and humble and wise and generous with all her gifts. And it’s lovely to see Brandi give a lift to so many other amazing artists - particularly female and LGBTQ + artists who are often blocked from pathways to access and success. It’s a real compliment to Tish - that Brandi sees such promise in her. Tish seems very self aware and self assured. Glennon Doyle must be a fantastic mother … and raising calm, self loving and open children is evidence of this.
I like the overarching message of the full circle of the very young and the very old being the most pure and steady in whom they know they are … yet are the two age groups listened to least.
And re: the mystery of the ‘meaning’ of songs … and sometimes they start to be about one thing and turn out to be about a completely different even unrelated thing … makes me think of ‘The Song Remembers When’ … it is often a song which brings the memory to you or showers you with the feelings

[@liseclairek]

Art can be that way: self-informing after the creation. You say it well.