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    Songs We Love: Brandi Carlile, 'The Joke'

    The country-rock aria, from Carlile's new album, is dedicated to the delicate boys and striving girls born into – and, she insists, destined to triumph over – a divisive time.
    by Ann Powers Nov 13, 2017 3 minutes
    Brandi Carlile's <em>By The Way, I Forgive You</em> comes out Feb. 16.

    When Nashville's favorite genre-defying producer, , got a call from Washington state's favorite genre-busting singer-songwriter, , in 2016, he was a little freaked out. "I'd first heard her sing about ten years ago, and just stopped in my tracks," he said in a recent chat at his home base, Music Row's RCA Studio A, where the two recently completed her sixth album . "Very few people can sing like that — in that powerful and individualistic way. I'd been a huge fan for a long time."

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