Returning To Myself
Returning To Myself Album ∙ Singer/Songwriter ∙ 2025 Brandi Carlile Brandi Carlile is hardly the only songwriter to be inspired by Joni Mitchell . But she is on a short list of artists who can boast that her own album is a direct result of having been Mitchell’s close collaborator. “I had finished playing the Hollywood Bowl [in 2024] with Joni, and it took up so much of my spiritual space and my mind space,” she tells Apple Music ’s Zane Lowe . “I felt really emotionally make-or-break, because I just wanted that to be a pivotal moment for Joni.” Carlile’s stewardship of her hero’s comeback performances, alongside Who Believes in Angels? , her 2025 team-up with Elton John , another one of her idols and mentors, left her little time to tend to her own music. “It became so overwhelming and so all-consuming that this little voice did start to say, ‘OK, you’re not going to live very long if you keep setting the bar for yourself in these really stressful places,’” she says. “‘And you’r...