![]() ![]() But her previous album should have been a smash, too: “Big Day in a Small Town,” from 2016, is terrific, and its lead single, “ Girl Next Door,” couldn’t have been more perfect for radio, with hooks and beats and stacked rhymes. With any luck or justice, the lonely and lustrous country-pop of “Your Life Is a Record” will earn her many more. Clark has been winning new fans this way for years, one catchy, finely chiselled song at a time. She played the rowdy revenge fantasy “Long Walk,” which had the crowd laughing at its wicked punch lines, and “ Who You Thought I Was,” a song that turns unexpectedly from childhood dreams to adult regrets, and which prompted people to lean forward to hear every word. The rest of the Wichita set was largely devoted to songs from her new album, “Your Life Is a Record,” which is out this week. “ Get High” is from Clark’s début album, “12 Stories,” which was released in 2013. “Bored with her husband, tired of the same old list of things to do.” To unwind at the end of another tedious day, this woman sits down and “rolls herself a fat one.” And then on to the chorus: “Sometimes the only way to get by is to get high.” Perhaps someone at the show was offended, but mostly I saw knowing nods and, as the song went on, more and more people singing along. “She hates her job, loves her kids,” Clark sang. Then she launched into a story song about a woman with whom most of those present seemed to be on quite familiar terms. “I hope you’re not offended easily,” Clark said, smiling. Three songs into a set last month in Wichita, Kansas, the country singer-songwriter Brandy Clark issued a neighborly warning to the people in the audience, most of whom had come to see the night’s headliner, Tanya Tucker, and may have heard Clark’s name for the first time just a few moments before, when she was introduced over the loudspeaker. Brandy Clark’s songs capture the routine indignities of life in America among the white working class. ![]()
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