New York, NY (Top40 Charts) Brandi Carlile is the most nominated female artist and third-most nominated artist overall at the 61st GRAMMY Awards with six nominations including Album Of The Year (By The Way, I Forgive You), Record Of The Year ("
The Joke"), Song Of The Year ("
The Joke"),Best Americana Album, Best American
Roots Song and Best American
Roots Performance.
The nominations cap off a breakthrough year for the acclaimed singer, songwriter and performer following the release of By The Way, I Forgive You. Produced by Grammy-Award winning producer Dave Cobb and acclaimed musician Shooter Jennings and recorded at Nashville's historic RCA Studio A, the album includes ten new songs written by Carlile and longtime collaborators and bandmates Tim and Phil Hanseroth including "The Joke." Released on Low Country Sound/Elektra Records (purchase).
Over the course of their acclaimed career, Carlile and her band have released six albums, including 2015's The Firewatcher's Daughter, which garnered a Grammy nomination for Best Americana Album. Additionally, last year, they released Cover Stories:
Brandi Carlile Celebrates
10 Years of the Story (An Album to Benefit War Child), which features 14 artists covering the songs on their breakthrough album The Story with all proceeds benefiting War Child. Artists included on the acclaimed project, which Rolling Stone calls, "tender and powerful," include Dolly Parton, Adele,
Pearl Jam, Kris Kristofferson, The Avett Brothers, Margo Price and Jim
James as well as a forward written by President Obama. More details can be found here.
Carlile's Girls Just Wanna Weekend-a destination concert vacation featuring an all female-fronted lineup-will take place at the all-inclusive Hard Rock Hotel in Riviera Maya, Mexico January 30-February 3, 2019. In addition to multiple shows by Carlile, Girls Just Wanna Weekend will feature Maren Morris, Indigo Girls, Margo Price, Patty Griffin, Lucius, KT Tunstall, The Secret Sisters and Ruby Amanfu. Of her inspiration behind the event, Carlile comments, "Mainstream festivals in the U.S. habitually exclude women as headline artists equal to men. I was brought up by Lilith Fair to believe that men and women enjoy live music equally and that women can not only headline a festival-they can BE a festival."Tickets are now on-sale. Complete details regarding the festival and packages are available via www.girlsjustwannaweekend.com.
