When the makers of Disney/Pixar’s “Onward” approached five-time Grammy winner Brandi Carlile to write an end-credits song, they didn’t need to give her much direction. “I just really thought about the boys in the film. But then I’ve got this kind of like, forward-moving, aggro kind of folk thing,” she says with a sly smile. “When you say ‘road song,’ I think you mean that kick drum that’s just ahead of the beat the whole way through. “I wanted it to feel like this forward-moving road song that causes you to take pause in the choruses to kind of appreciate the beauty and look around.

Source: Los Angeles Times January 25, 2021 14:02 UTC