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Brandi had played an explosive set at Newport Folk Festival in 2018, and ended up at one of the festival’s notorious after-parties, hosted by Rhode Island’s own Deer Tick, led by the talented songwriter John McCauley. Deer Tick’s Newport parties were the hardest tickets of all to snag, and Brandi and Jay Sweet, producer of the festival, had found their way there after a long conversation that picked up on one he had started with Margo Price a few years earlier and had continued ever since then.
After shaking hands and making it official—2019 would be Brandi’s all women-headlining stage, signed and sealed with their grasped palms—she and Jay decided to celebrate their “blood oath pact” at that Deer Tick after-party back in Newport at the Newport Blues Café. They’d snaked up to the front row to watch the band at the tiny, packed club, and, between songs, the crowd started chanting out of nowhere—they’d spotted her there, and wanted more.Brandi and Jay looked at each other.
There were many times when it felt like everything was going to fall apart, but never more severe than when Maren’s song looked like it would head to number one just as they were rounding close to showtime; she was the first woman to hit that slot in well over a year, since Kelsea Ballerini’s “Legends.” Suddenly, Jay could feel her team pulling back—they wanted her to be somewhere else, he thought.
Dolly had her own yellow suit embroidered with roses, and the crowd erupted at the first sight of her: a surprise they managed to keep by shrouding Dolly in a voluminous black robe as she arrived at the property , only her ruby-red cowboy boots peeping out of the bottom. They closed the set with everyone onstage for “9 to 5,” dancing together, revelatory as hell.
“There were ten things trending in the world,” Jay continued. “It was the only thing that was musical and positive. There was a shooting at a garlic festival in California, a chemical attack in Libya. The world was trending the wrong way. The only things trending positive were Brandi Carlile, the Highwomen, Newport, and Dolly Parton’s surprise set.”
“We pulled in with these derelict buses with the kids in various stages of meltdown,” Allison remembered—the band had traveled with their young children and a Montessori teacher to help wrangle them all when the moms were onstage. “And saw this absolutely gorgeous, perfectly shiny Highwomen bus. It was just very funny.
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