Brandi Carlile joined Brandy Clark on her 2021 track Same Devil. Released as a digital only single as an extra on the delux version of her 2021 album Your Life Is A Record released earlier that year. Brandi Carlile produced two tracks for the delux including this track and Like Mine. While the standard release of the album was released on all formats, the (Deluxe Edition) was released digitally only. The deluxe had a few extra tracks including Same Devil (ft Brandi Carlile), Like Mine and The Past is the Past (feat. Lindsey Buckhingham). Carlile also contributed uncredited backing vocals to Like Mine.
The tracks featured familiar musicians & team in the Brandi Carlile community – Brandon Bell engineer and Chris Powell on drums.
Brandy Clark was also one of the collective songwriters on the grammy nomintated song “Beautiful Noise” with Alicia Keys and Brandi Carlile.
When Chris Willman from Variety spoke to them both when the tracks were released Brandi Carlile said this about Same Devil:
Carlile adds that the song’s acknowledgement of universal sin shouldn’t overshadow specific wrongs being pointed out. “At the time I heard the lyric, I thought it was totally f—ing brilliant. But ever since things have unfolded in these last few weeks, and particularly in these last few days with RBG dying… Far be it from me to comment on somebody else’s song that they wrote. But I almost feel a pull on this one to highlight that. When I sing this song with Brandy and the things I know about Brandy being a fellow queer woman, and knowing there are things about our basic civil rights that are just hanging on by an absolute thread, there’s nothing in this song to encourage any kind of political apathy. It’s definitely meant to draw out our commonalities and to draw people into one another, but inevitably to do the right thing and to stand up and save the soul of a nation.
And interestingly the Brandi shared about the band she pulled together remotely to play on the two tracks:
And a lot of the musicians are some of my favorite people to work with, so we already had a rapport and a language. My drummer, Chris Powell, played the drums. Brandon Bell is one of my favorite engineers. A lot of Tanya’s band was on this thing.
Incidentally, I didn’t get to use Tanya’s band in the studio (on “While I’m Livin’”) because I didn’t know them yet. But then when I met ‘em, I was like, s—, Tanya’s band f—ing rules. And Jedd Hughes is somebody that Brandy works with all the time. That guy, my God — he blew my mind; I’m not going to lose his phone number. So it ended up being a group of people that we already were sort of finishing each other’s sentences and reading each other’s minds.
