Grammy-nominated and CMA Award-winning singer, songwriter and musician Brandy Clark will release her highly anticipated new album, Your Life Is A Record, March 6 on Warner Records. She released the leading single, “Who You Thought I Was,” today.

“The seed of the song came from something that John Prine said a couple of years ago at the Americana Awards. He walked out onstage at the Ryman and everyone stood up and clapped for what felt like five minutes. When everyone sat down, he said with a little laugh, ‘Well, I’m John Prine, but I’d like to go back to being who you thought I was.’ Man…that hit me. The songwriter in me instantly knew it was a song and the heart in me knew it was how I had felt in my own life many times. I mean who of us hasn’t let somebody down or wanted to be the version of ourselves that someone who loved us thought we were?” Clark says.

The album is produced by award winning producer Jay Joyce, and was recorded largely as an acoustic four-piece—featuring Clark, Joyce, Giles Reaves and Jedd Hughes—with subsequent Memphis strings and horns layered in with arrangements by Lester Snell.

To promote the record, Clark will tour throughout 2020 including select dates with Tanya Tucker on the CMT Next Women of Nashville Tour, as well as her own headlining Who You Thought I Was Tour.

Your Life Is A Record Track List
1. I’ll Be the Sad Song
2. Long Walk
3. Love is a Fire
4. Pawn Shop
5. Who You Thought I Was
6. Apologies
7. Bigger Boat (feat. Randy Newman)
8. Bad Car
9. Who Broke Whose Heart
10. Can We Be Strangers
11. The Past is the Past

Your Life Is A Record is available for pre-order now.

Joe & Martina, the married country duo formerly known as Terra Bella, recently offered new music during a visit to the MusicRow offices.

“It didn’t seem like people were getting it any more after six years so we thought, ‘Let’s just use our real names.’ We are all about authenticity,” Joe said, addressing the name change.

Joe was Luke Combs’ first bass player on the road, and co-wrote “Don’t Tempt Me With A Good Time,” which became the namesake of Combs’ first headlining tour.

“His parents have the Gold record and we knew Platinum was just around the corner on this song, and now we have the Platinum one. Gold records are the things dreams are made of.”

These self-described “farm kids” from California offered renditions of several songs, including “Middle of Nowhere, U.S.A.” “Where I’m from is open range and 30 miles one way to anywhere you want to go,” Martina said.

They recently released a music video for the track. “We just wanted it to release it directly to our fans,” she said.

“We’re like the musical equivalent of farm-to-table,” Joe quipped. “That sounds like a good publishing company name—Farm-to-Table Music,” he joked.

“We left a California horse ranch, sold all our horses and moved out here,” Joe said.

“It’s so great because people ask us, ‘When will you know you’ve made it in the industry?’ And I always say, ‘When we can have a piece of land here with horses in our back yard.’ That’s when we’ll know,” Martina said.

They also played the unreleased track “Give Me Back The ‘90s.” “I just got the rough cut back of this song,” Joe said.

He wrote it with Johnny Garcia, who is a longtime guitar player and bandleader for Trisha Yearwood.

“It was just reminiscing on the ‘90s. He was like, ‘I wish you could have lived on those tours, because it was just so different.’”

They brought in plenty of musicians that played on iconic ‘90s country albums. “They definitely played some of those ‘90s licks, but it still sounds modern,” Joe says.

“It’s ‘90s without the mullet,” Martina adds, and hints that there may be some ‘90s country artists added to final version of the song.

John Prine will be among those honored during the American Association of Independent Music (A2IM)’s Libera Awards, set for June 18 at New York City’s Ziegfeld Ballroom.

Prine will receive the Independent Icon Award, and will also perform during the ceremony alongside fellow honoree, punk rock artist Alejandro Escovedo.

This is the latest accolade for the 73-year-old Prine, whose recent honors include being inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2019, and taking home Libra Awards for Best Country/Americana Album and Best American Roots/Folk Album for The Tree of Forgiveness in 2019. Later this year, he will be honored with a Grammy Lifetime Achievement award.

Nominees for the Libera Awards will be announced at a later date. The event will serve as the culmination of “Indie Week,” which will take place June 15-18 at the NY Law School. The awards are in partnership with Merlin, The Orchard and Ingrooves.

“The 2020 Libera Awards serve as a dual celebration for A2IM: one that applauds the extraordinary talent of so many artists, labels, and independent champions, as well as the commemoration of 15 years of A2IM and all that our board, our members, our team, and my predecessors have worked to accomplish,” said A2IM CEO Richard James Burgess. “We are proud of the increased visibility of independent music in the global market and are energized and excited to dive into the next fifteen years of events, advocacy, and work in this remarkable community.”

Tickets for the Libera Awards will go on sale to the public on Jan. 13.

Artificial intelligence-driven global rights management agency Muserk has promoted Quentin Bradley to Head of Product. Bradley previously handled Global Rights Management. He will based out of the company’s Nashville office, reporting to Muserk’s CEO/Founder Paul Goldman.

Bradley will help oversee Muserk’s work in the music, film, television, and video space, including rights management, monetization, royalty reporting, and distribution. He will be a major liaison with the company’s Business Development department. The Berklee College of Music grad has worked as a musician, professional services technical engineer, and more.

“Quentin has such a deep understanding not only for our product but for the company’s core values” said Goldman. “His dedication to the company and his skill to agilely create new standard operating procures and the ability to implement them make him an invaluable part of the team.”

“It’s simple,” said Bradley. “I love music, I love technology, and I love problem-solving. I couldn’t ask for a more fulfilling role, nor could I ask for a better team with which to work. Muserk’s collective knowledge of copyright and technology is invaluable, and it’s an honor to be a part of the group building solutions directed at the industry’s biggest challenges.”