Single – Right On Time

Right On Time – the single: July 21 2021

The first single of In These Silent Days album which was released on October 1 2021.

The video for Right on Time was directed by Courtney Cox. The song received 3 nominations at the 64th Grammy Awards, including Record of the year, Song of the Year and Best Pop Solo Performance.

Right On Time was released with two further alternative versions including:

Right On Time (in Harmony) – released on August 27
Right On Time (in Symphony) recorded at Red Rocks wiht the Colorado Symphony – released on September 24

Right On Time (Canyon Haze version) was released on the delux album in October 2022. (new name – same as Harmony track)

While the band’s previous album (By The Way, I Forgive You) released 2 singles on vinyl 7inch (The Mother and The Joke) – so far there have been no vinyl 7 inch singles been released off In These Silent Days.

In the Sterogum interview upon the album release Brandi Carlile says “ when I wrote “Right On Time,” I knew I was starting where “The Joke” left me off, and I wanted to start the album that way because that’s what felt true to me.”

In an interview Brandi Carlile and Courtney Cox did with Entertainment Weekly for release day of the single, Brandi said of the song, “Sometimes I wonder, “Do I still write songs? Can I still write songs?” And then I’ll just get smacked in the face with one. That’s what happened. I was just waiting, and waiting, and waiting, and waiting, and then right on time, it just came to me. Other songs had come to me before, but nothing that I was working on for the album yet had done that, had grabbed a hold of my heart in the way that “The Joke” did, where it terrified me because I felt like it was going to get beyond me or beyond my control. I’ve never had a song before like I had with “The Joke.” I’ve always been an album artist, so it’s an underdog career.”

The origins of the song she explains in the interview, “In these silent days and this time that’s been imposed on us spiritually as a global community, really significant things have happened, babies were born, divorces were had, people died, and there’s something really human about the obstacles that we’ve put in front of ourselves, and then deciding to just somehow explode through it and say, maybe I didn’t come out of this right, maybe I didn’t handle this the right way, maybe it wasn’t right, but something had to happen — so it was right on time. How do you come back from these silent days, from what we’ve been through?”

Right On Time – Chart positions.