Brandi Carlile: And if you hadn't said that — and we had just kept on going along like that — we may have made a whole album like that. But you are the one that stopped that from happening.

Mission accomplished. The album, which came out April 4, debuted at No. 1 on the U.K. Official Albums chart, giving Carlile her first No. 1 on the tally and her first to reach the chart’s top 40.

Brandi Carlile: And if you hadn't said that — and we had just kept on going along like that — we may have made a whole album like that. But you are the one that stopped that from happening. A Martínez ...