Single – The Mother

The Mother single was off the By The Way, I Forgive You Album from 2018.

Brandi Carlile has since said she wrote it as a ‘mantra’ for herself as she struggled with her ‘mother’ identity after her first daughter Evangeline was born. The manta being “I am the mother of Evangaline” and if she said it enough she would believe it.

As she told in this intimate video interview with Rolling Stone, it was the first song she wrote for By The Way, I Forgive You.

In a great interview with NPR at the time, Brandi Carlile said of the song:
“Yeah. A woman called Trina Shoemaker, who engineered Bear Creek and The Firewatcher’s Daughter — good friend of mine, really mystical crazy person — she told me when the baby was born, “Welcome to the end of being alone inside your mind. You’ll never be alone in there again; there’ll never be a day where you don’t wake up wondering what Evangeline needs. Not when she’s 50.” And boy, is that the truth.“

On 29th April 2018 she announced on her facebook page that she was releasing a limited edition special picture disc edition of the song in time for Mother’s Day.