Ep. 2 - BRANDY CLARK ("Follow Your Arrow")
b'Singer-songwriter Brandy Clark\\u2019s 2013 debut album\\xa012 Stories\\xa0landed on the year end \\u201cbest of\\u201d lists ofRolling Stone, NPR,\\xa0American Songwriter, and\\xa0New York\\xa0magazine before earning her a nomination for Best Country Album and Best New Artist (in any genre) at the 2015 Grammy awards. Clark\\u2019s meticulously crafted \\u201cdrinking and thinking\\u201d songs, as she described them to \\u201cAll Things Considered,\\u201d reflect a new brand of progressively-minded traditional country that has been enthusiastically embraced by both the honky-tonk crowd and public radio audiences. Before stepping into the spotlight as an artist, however, Clark put in more than a decade as a hard-working Nashville-based tunesmith whose songs were recorded by Toby Keith, Reba McEntire, LeAnn Rimes, Darius Rucker, Gretchen Wilson, Keith Urban, and Sheryl Crow. She co-wrote the Band Perry\\u2019s \\u201cBetter Dig Two,\\u201d which hit #1 in early 2013. That same year, she was nominated for a CMA, AMA, and Grammy award for co-writing Miranda Lambert\\u2019s \\u201cMama\\u2019s Broken Heart.\\u201d She won Song of the Year at the 2014 CMA awards for \\u201cFollow Your Arrow,\\u201d which she co-wrote with Shane McAnally and artist Kacey Musgraves. Her next album will be released by Warner Bros. Records, which signed her to their Los Angeles division in late 2014.'