Brandi Carlile’s new song “Life On The Run,” released through Interscope Records/Lost Highway, pairs a fresh creative turn with a national parks partnership. Carlile and the National Park Foundation plan to raise critical funds, including $1 from each ticket s
Brandi Carlile’s new track. “Life On The Run. ” arrives with a message that feels less like a slogan and more like an invitation back outside. The song is available via Interscope Records/Lost Highway. and it’s been built from collaboration as much as conviction—written with Aaron Dessner and produced by Carlile. Dessner. and Andrew Watt.
In the lyrics and the momentum, the focus turns inward while still chasing the horizon. Carlile is described as finding herself renewed through “discovery and adventure,” a shift that lands as a personal reset rather than a break from everything that came before.
The release also lines up with a new partnership between Carlile and the National Park Foundation. The aim is straightforward: raise critical funds to preserve and protect national parks across the country—places framed as “cherished” and positioned as a lifeline for people who want to keep them standing.
This partnership isn’t staying in the abstract. It includes collaboration with Carlile’s Looking Out Foundation. and $1 from each ticket sold for next weekend’s Echoes Through the Canyon at The Gorge Amphitheatre will be donated to NPF. Representatives from NPF will also be on the ground to raise awareness throughout the three-day event.
The lineup spreads across generations and voices, with performances from Indigo Girls, Bonnie Raitt, I’m With Her, Sara Bareilles, The Highwomen, and more.
Carlile’s own words tie the song’s themes to the parks effort in a way that lands like a personal credo. “Our national parks are the heart and soul of our nation,” shares Carlile. “Even in our darkest days when we need a North Star. we need to look no further than the Olympic Peninsula. Yosemite. or the Canyonlands. The Gemini energy that pulls me back to the wild time and time again is something I’ve learned to embrace with music. and honestly. every part of who I am. I’m not the only one. The wilderness calls on us all to return to ourselves. and the National Park Foundation reminds us that we have a shared duty to protect these sacred spaces. We all come from the lost and found…to the great unknown.”.
On top of the new single, Carlile is continuing her extensive The Human Tour through the fall. The schedule includes stops at Nashville’s Bridgestone Arena. Colorado’s Red Rocks Amphitheatre for three nights. Fort Worth’s Dickies Arena. Austin’s Moody Center. and Santa Barbara’s Santa Barbara Bowl. among many others.
She’ll also headline Newport Folk Festival on July 26th, All Things Go NYC on September 26th, and All Things Go DC on September 27th.
For listeners who want to hear the new direction right away, a video for the track is embedded: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iX1zc2pQx0k.
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So she’s charging ticket prices now but donating $1??
I don’t really get it… is “Life on the Run” like about escaping or escaping the government or what. But national parks money is cool I guess.
Wait I thought it was “Echoes Through the Canyon” at like some random trail, not the Gorge Amphitheatre. Also $1 from each ticket sounds tiny, like how many tickets is that 50 or 5,000?
Aaron Dessner + Andrew Watt + Brandi Carlile… that’s basically a supergroup right. But I’m stuck on the part where it says “less like a slogan” like ok sure, but parks are already everywhere in media. Still, if they really get NPF reps there, that’s at least something.