Brandy Clark won Song of the Year at last night’s 2024 Americana Music Association Honors & Awards for “Dear Insecurity,” featuring Brandi Carlile — her first win at the annual awards. Clark also performed “Take Mine” during the awards ceremony, accompanied by SistaStrings.
“Dear Insecurity” — which also won Best Americana Performance at the 66th Annual GRAMMY Awards earlier this year — is from Clark’s self-titled album, produced by Carlile, and features Clark’s most personal songwriting to date (Warner Records, stream/purchase here).
Released to overwhelming critical acclaim, the record landed on several “Best of 2023” lists, including NPR Music, Rolling Stone, Billboard, Los Angeles Times, Variety, and Forbes, which calls the album “an Americana Masterpiece.” Additionally, the Los Angeles Times praises her as “one of Nashville’s craftiest and most meticulous storytellers,” while Variety declares that the album “further clarifies that she’s one of America’s treasures,” and Billboard proclaims, “Clark continues to convey her inexorable talents as both a song-crafter and vocal interpreter.”
Clark is one of her generation’s most respected songwriters and musicians. In addition to writing songs like “A Beautiful Noise,” the GRAMMY-nominated duet performed by Brandi Carlile and Alicia Keys, and Kacey Musgraves’ “Follow Your Arrow,” Clark has released four acclaimed albums of her own, including 2020’s Your Life is A Record. That album landed on best-of-the-year lists in Rolling Stone, Entertainment Weekly, Variety, and more, and led NPR Music to call her “a storyteller of the highest caliber,” The New Yorker to declare, “No one is writing better country songs than Brandy Clark is,” and Slate to proclaim her “one of the greatest living short-story-song writers in country (which really means in any genre).”
She also composed the music and lyrics for the hit musical comedy Shucked, alongside her longtime collaborator Shane McAnally. With the show, Clark won Outstanding Music at the 67th Drama Desk Awards and was nominated for Best Original Score at the 76th Tony Awards, with Shucked receiving nine Tony nominations overall last year.
BRANDY CLARK (album tracklist)
Ain’t Enough Rocks (feat. Derek Trucks)
Buried
Tell Her You Don’t Love Her (feat. Lucius)
Dear Insecurity (feat. Brandi Carlile)
Come Back To Me
Northwest
She Smoked In The House
Up Above The Clouds – Cecilia’s Song
All Over Again
Best Ones
Take Mine
