These kinds of acknowledgments make me feel really seen. And then life-affirming because there’ve been a lot of instances in my life where inclusion hasn’t come easy to me. So when my peers nod to me and say they understand what I’m doing or they think something I’m doing is cutting edge or exciting, it’s really, really encouraging to me. You know, making music not really for accolades or for commercial success but seeing it as forward thinking, and it may not always be understood by the masses. I think it comes from being a sort of under-the-wire music-maker from the time I started. I’m one of those people that feels really life-affirmed by accolades like this. So I was having a pretty radical morning. And I was just basically screaming every five seconds because, like, either somebody I love was getting nominated, or I was nominated. So my wife left to drop our oldest daughter to school, and me and my youngest, we pulled up the livestream to see how it would all go down. I feel great responsibility in representing marginalized queer people in rural America who are raised on country and roots music but are repeatedly and systematically rejected by the correlating culture.”
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“There is not a moment where I don’t view my role as something larger. The song, as Carlile noted in an October Instagram post, was recorded with the same team and at the same studio as her previous album, By the Way, I Forgive You - which earned the Grammy for Best Americana Album, along with Best American Roots Performance and Song for its single “The Joke.” “The importance of staying and working in Americana is greater than just me,” she wrote. One of the more shocking moves by the Recording Academy came before this year’s Grammy nominations were even announced, when singer-songwriter Brandi Carlile’s song “Right on Time” was moved from the American-roots field, where she had previously competed, to pop. “I have to say, I am really excited and satisfied to be nominated in pop.”