Brandy Clark Says Sophomore Album Will Be Her ‘Biggest Challenge of 2015′

Thanks to her multiple Grammy nominations and a tour with Alan Jackson, 2015 is shaping up to be a huge year for Brandy Clark, but the singer says her biggest challenge will be completing her next album.

Her current release, 12 Stories, has brought Clark into the national spotlight, and she says that she already has plenty of songs written for her next project.

"It'll be my biggest challenge of 2015, to make a record that stands up to 12 Stories," she tells Rolling Stone Country. "What I really had to wrap my head around is to let go of things being exactly the same. It's going to be a new record, a new experience, and there are going to be things that are different than the first time. But what needs to stay the same are me and my songs.

"It's finding the right producer and group of musicians who believe in it, wholeheartedly," Clark says. "That was the secret to the first one."

The singer-songwriter notes that she has started meeting with producers, and she hopes that her music can have an impact on keeping country traditions alive.

"If I could have even a small part of keeping country music alive and well," she says, "I would feel like I had done something."

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