Taylor Swift isn’t the only one to re-record fairly recent albums. Now Brandi Carlyle has done it, although there are very different reasons than the ones that prompted Swift to revisit her catalog. Carlile is back in the studio to completely re-release last year’s “In This Silent Days,” in a new sound-focused release called “In the Canyon Haze.”
The newly recorded album will be released on September 28 and is preceded today by You and Me on the Rock (In the Foggy Valley), a remake featuring his wife, Catherine Carlisle, on harmonious vocals.
Carlisle said the project came about when she was looking to release a deluxe version of “Silent Days” to celebrate the album’s upcoming anniversary, with additional tracks, but she settled on a way to make the entire album a bonus. The “Valley” portion hints at how the artist believes the re-execution aims at the spirit of the old Laurel Canyon in the remodeled arrangements.
The new album follows the original album’s playback order exactly, except for the audio cover of David Bowie’s Space Oddity, which she often performs in concert, is marked at the end of it.
“I knew I wanted to offer our fans more than a regular ‘bonus track’ that always seemed like a creative way to ask fans to buy your album twice,” she said in a statement. “So the twins (Phil and Tim Hansroth) locked ourselves up in the attic studio in my barn just like the old days…and reimagined our entire record.”
Citing the “Joni jams” she participated in at her famous friend’s house in the Santa Barbara area, Carlisle said she “conjured up images from Laurel Canyon’s infamous music scene… I could see the California Dreamers with embroidered flowers and peace marks on their backs drifting through Polaroid fog I could smell marijuana and incense I could hear CSN tunes traveling across the valley from Lookout Mountain and the laughter accompanying Mama Cass I could hear the echo of old wood and dulcimer playing like a drum The familiar chord progression and confessions and the collective spirit that would To generate timeless songs…songs we all wish we had written. I can feel liberation, friction, and liberation from modern digital distractions that have laid fertile ground at the feet of West Coast poets and troubadours.”
While the digital and CD versions will be released on September 28, the double LP multi-colored vinyl version will wait until November 25, at which point it will only be available in independent stores — coinciding with the Record Store’s Black Friday release day. The vinyl will become widely available the following Friday, December 2. Pre-order details can be found over here.
Carlisle continues to tour behind the original album “In These Silent Days,” with the sale of her next dates at the Red Rocks Amphitheater in Colorado on hold from September 9-10. The tour ends October 22 at Madison Square Garden in New York.
The singer-songwriter will also perform at the Americana Honors & Awards in Nashville on September 14, where she won three awards.
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