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Two rarities during the musical performances on “Saturday Night Live” this weekend: actual rock ‘n’ roll was performed. Even rarer than that, Thomas Jefferson was quoted — prominently and at length — in the spot where a guitar solo might have gone. During Brandi Carlile‘s performance of the hard-rocking, U2-styled “Church & State,” Carlile offered a spoken recitation between choruses …

Brandi Carlile has announced her first solo album in four years, “Returning to Myself,” set to come out Oct. 24. Carlile’s co-producers on the project are Andrew Watt, Aaron Dessner and Justin Vernon, the latter of Bon Iver fame. The first single from the album, its title track, was released concurrently with the album announcement on Wednesday morning, as was …