Brandy Clark is one of country’s most quietly devastating new writers, and her incredible album “Big Day in a Small Town” is full of the small, emotionally wrecking moments that fill out the edges of her songs. “Homecoming Queen” deserves to be taught in every songwriting class, while “Broke” is able to make poverty rocking, tragic, and laugh-out-loud funny. Brandy Clark is marginalized not just because she’s a woman in a country music landscape mostly dominated by men, but also because she makes anti-commercial country–which actually sounds like ‘70s country– with such gusto. She deserves to be rewarded please give a listen to this album.
The Fat Angel Sings 