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[March 29th, 2007]

Singer Carlile releasing the story within

With Brandi Carlile, there's "The Story." And then there's "The Story."

And, of course, the story.

Let's start with "The Story," the song — it's a breathtaking showcase for this Maple Valley singer's rare talents. The song starts out nicely and easily enough, a sweet folk song, with gentle acoustic guitar and Carlile singing, "It's true, I was made for you." Then, at the 1-minute mark, the music kicks up to rock levels, and Carlile's vocals start climbing like a Blue Angel jet. More from the Seattle Times

[March 4, 2007]

New York, New York

Turns out Brandi Carlile was uptown, though, so she and the Twins showed up to play an impromptu set. Tracks included "The Story," from her sophomore effort, and covers of "Creep" and "Hallelujah." I have video but the audio is awful... I'll try to fix it and post. Read more about Brandi in the April issue of Paste. Caren Explains It All

[March 2, 2007]

2000 Light Years From Home, My Night With Brandi Carlile, Kaki King, Joe Arthur and Son Volt

Sweet Talk: The Power of Suggestion

[February 16, 2007]

Brandi Carlile Returns With New 'Stories'

Singer/songwriter Brandi Carlile will release her sophomore album, "The Story," April 3 via Columbia. The 13-track set sports guest appearances by the Indigo Girls on the song "Cannonball" as well as drumming from session ace Matt Chamberlain. It was produced by T-Bone Burnett. More from Billboard.com

[February 13, 2007]

WFUV Audio Archive

Check out the audio archive of BCB's "in studio" appearance at New York City's WFUV. Listen (opens in Windows Media Player)

[January 16, 2007]

The Story (single) released digitally!

Find it on iTunes, Sony Connect, Rhapsody, Wal-Mart, Best Buy Music, Yahoo, Napster, Zune, and MTV Urge.

[January 11, 2007]

Columbia Records Releasing New Brandi Carlile Album, 'The Story,' on Tuesday, April 3

The Story -- the first album from Brandi Carlile since she was named one of Rolling Stone's "10 Artists to Watch in 2005" -- was produced by Grammy award winner T Bone Burnett and recorded live to two-inch audio tape during a marathon 11-day recording session at The Warehouse Studios in Vancouver, B.C. More from PR Newswire

[January 8, 2007]

New songs on MySpace!

There are now 3 new songs posted on Brandi's MySpace site. They are live versions of The Story, Late Morning Lullaby, and Turpentine, recorded at Neumo's in Seattle. While Late Morning Lullaby was released on the Live at Neumo's CD, both The Story and Turpentine remain unreleased. A small treat while we wait for the new CD.

[January 8, 2007]

From the Aware Reps website:

"What Can I Say" was featured on the season premiere of the show 'Wildfire" on ABC Family on Jan.2nd!"

[December 27,2006]

Top 10 concerts leave lasting memories

Best opening act: Brandi Carlile, April 10, Orpheum Theatre: Headlining act Train delivered a workmanlike set, but Carlile's flat-out revelatory opening set was so amazing she almost pushed this show up onto the Top 10 list all by herself. Whether singing her own strong material or covering Radiohead's "Creep," she fully inhabited every song. More from the Capital Times

[October 25,2006]

Brandi Carlile's music defies categorization

The music of singer-songwriter Brandi Carlile has been tagged with various labels by critics, from alt-country to folk to indie rock.

Although she has the pipes for Top 40 radio play, one label that has eluded Carlile is pop-princess. Judging from her response at the suggestion of turning pop, ”princess“ doesn't seem like a title she'll be referred to as any time soon. More from The Daily Record

[October 23, 2006]

Women at Work: Brandi Carlile...Half a Yodel Shy

by Maureen Palli (featured in Relix Magazine) More

[October 18, 2006]

Carlile has lifelong crush for country

Monday was a good night for 25-year-old Brandi Carlile.

The young woman with the heartache of Patsy Cline in her voice and streams of casual, mountainous air flickering through her every song was back playing at the Ryman Auditorium ---- the former Grand Ole Opry House ---- in Nashville for the second time in her short career. The first time she was there, she brought her singer of a mother out onto stage with her. Her mother wasn't along on this night, but the nerves were already building up early in the afternoon, as she peered at the historic building's stained-glass windows from the other side of her hotel room's glass. More

[October 17, 2006]

A Quiet Storm: Brandi Carlile and T-Bone Burnett looking for lightning.

What is it about precipitation that makes people sing? Little did he know, but when Gene Kelly was doing that pirouette on the lamppost in Singin’ in the Rain, he was predicating the grunge movement. The Seattle-area music scene, and the Northwest in general, keeps brewing musicians like it does thunderstorms.

Among them is Brandi Carlile, who by most accounts sings and performs with gusto well beyond most musicians twice her age—and those half her age, for that matter.

More from the San Diego City Beat

[October 11, 2006]

The new album is in the can and the band is back on tour! Brandi, Tim, Phil, and Josh head back on the road, opening for Shawn Colvin. First stop Baltimore, Maryland.

[September 27, 2006]

Check out the cool new photos just posted on Brandi's offical website. They are of the band hard at work in the studio. More

[September 20, 2006]

News Update! Brandi and the Band head back to LA today! They are headed to T-Bone Burnett's studio to start mixing the new album.

[September 1, 2006]

Brandi Carlile came back to Orphan Studio with tracks from her upcoming CD. It is being produced by T Bone Burnett. She had the Indigo Girls sing on the track. Glenn Matullo engineered. Orphan Studio

[August 12, 2006]

Brandi is set to begin recording her new album with the legendary T Bone Burnett this week! The album is tentatively set to be released early 2007. Look for Brandi on the road this October and November. Details of the forthcoming tour will be announced shortly.

[August 3, 2006]

Brandi Carlile is finally home. The months of touring that followed the release of the singer-songwriter's self-titled 2005 album paid off with a triumphant, sold-out show Wednesday night at the Woodland Park Zoo. (more)

[July 23, 2006]

Brandi and the Twins bring it on. Well, if there was any doubt before her set tonight, Brandi Carlile has completely won over the XPN music lovers big time. She and the Twins and the band brought it on tonight big time. She opened with Bob Dylan's The Times They Are A Changing and ended her set with her gorgeous cover of Leonard Cohen's Hallelujah. After a rousing "standing O" she and the band came out and rocked it out with a cover of Radiohead's "Creep." Hey hey what can I say. Brandi more than delivered.

[June 16, 2006]

From The Birmingham News: Among the various and sundry items posted on singer Brandi Carlile's refrigerator is an early review written by Birmingham's Scott Register, host of "Reg's Coffeehouse" on WRAX-FM. (more)

[June 6, 2006]

From the Daily Collegian: "Honest, raw, and derivative," is how 23-year-old singer-songwriter Brandi Carlile describes her music: honest from her heart, raw through emotion-filled lyrics and creative guitar riffs, and derivatively influenced by some of her favorite artists, like Elton John, Patsy Cline, Bernie Taupin, and Radiohead. (more)

[May 18, 2006]

From The Potamic News: Growing up in the isolated acres of Ravensdale, Wash., singer-songwriter Brandi Carlile has worked her way through the rural foothills into the urban spotlight since signing with Columbia Records two years ago. (more)

[May 16,2006]

From Glide Magazine: It would be easy to be cynical about Brandi Carlile. Her story reads like a PR director’s dream – a country girl from Seattle grows up singing just like her mother, fed on Johnny Cash and Patsy Cline and eventually finding inspiration in Jeff Buckley and Radiohead. (more)

[April/May '06]

From Relix Magazine: Scene+Heard - The Wood Brothers and Brandi Carlile. (more)

[Spring '06]

From Frets Magazine: I think the world of myself, but the world doesn’t think much of me,“ sings Brandi Carlile on ”Fall Apart Again,“ a track from her eponymous debut. (more) Be sure to scroll down for the whole article!

[March 29, 2006]

From Billboard: Brandi Carlile has been continuously touring since her self-titled debut album was released by Red Ink/Columbia last summer. But the 23-year-old singer/songwriter wouldn't have it any other way. (more)

[March 3, 2006]

From Starpolish: Hypnotizing like the rustle of country wind, Brandi Carlile's voice invokes the weathered wisdom of the mountains along with the youthful yearnings of her actual twenty-something years. (more)

[February 27, 2006]

From the Seattlest: Carlile in Concert. A couple weeks ago, Seattlest had our first listen of Brandi Carlile’s self-titled debut album, and to be honest, we weren’t sure how we felt. We liked it, but we can’t say that it excited us. It kind of felt like something was missing. (more)

[February 2, 2006]

From the Free Lance Star: Carlile relishes the road. Singer-songwriter Brandi Carlile is constantly being compared to other folk-rock musicians, including Melissa Etheridge, Sheryl Crow and Bob Dylan. (more)

[January 23, 2006]

From NPR: True to Her Musical Roots: Brandi Carlile. Be sure to listen to the interview. (more)

[January 19, 2006]

From San Diego Music Scene: When the first song, "Follow," on your debut album sounds like chanteuse k.d. lang fronting Radiohead, attention must be paid. (more)

[January 19, 2006]

From the Tuscon Weekly: In Her Own Eyes: Brandi Carlile leaves behind her cabin for a tour that's making her a rising star. (more)

[December 2, 2005]

From Boston.com: By day, Brandi Carlile lives in a van. Every night she holes up in a different hotel room in a different town, ideally located within walking distance of a Starbucks. Carlile, a fast-rising roots-pop singer-songwriter, feels more at home on the road than she does in her real home, a log cabin in rural Washington state. (more)

[November 11, 2005]

From the Daily News Seattle: Brandi Carlile is becoming a legitimate television star. Wait, the Seattle-based Columbia Records artist who can rock out and maintain her Patsy Cline-like vocal authenticity? That Brandi Carlile? (more)

[November 7, 2005]

From Echo Online: Artist shoots into stardom. Brandi Carlile found her calling. If not at age 8, during a Roseanne Cash performance, or at 16 singing back-up for an Elvis impersonator, then by 22, when she budded into a songwriting guitarist with a bluesy voice that found a home at Columbia Records. (more)

[September 8, 2005]

From the Reno Gazette Journal: Brandi Carlile may not be rocking anonymously for long. Brandi Carlile is getting a lot of buzz lately. If you want to be able to say ”I saw her before the wild, rumor-filled fame hit,“ you probably should go to the Saturday-night show at the Biltmore. (more)

[July 10, 2005]

From the Oregon Music Guide: Musicians tend to hate it but people have a need to compare artists to others. More than anything, it’s a way to give a point of reference when talking about a person’s music. In the case of Brandi Carlile, however, people are finding the chore to be a little difficult. (more)

[August 6, 2005]

From Seattlepi.com: At the age of 8, Brandi Carlile discovered what she wanted to do with her life.

The epiphany came at a local Northwest Grand Ol' Opry show where she got up on stage for the first time and sang a girlish version of Roseanne Cash's "Tennessee Flat-Top Box." (more)

On Tap Magazine: Lend an ear to the opening chorus of Brandi Carlile’s self-titled album, and you’d swear you were listening to a younger, more modern Joni Mitchell. This small-town girl’s rich vocals belie her young age and can relax even the most wound-up listener. (more)

Moss Live: Sweet Dreams for Brandi Carlile. (more)

GoandDoMichigan.com: You'll be hard pressed to find a bigger fan of the TV medical drama "Grey's Anatomy" than singer-songwriter Brandi Carlile. (more)

The News Tribune: Chris Isaak might be the main attraction Saturday at Seattle’s Summer Nights at Lake Union. But a lot of eyes will be on opening act Brandi Carlile, the Maple Valley singer-songwriter who might as well wear a neon sign that flashes ”next big thing.“ (more)

From Best Buy: Q & A (more)

From Harp Magazine: It’s loud in New York City and Brandi Carlile is used to peace and quiet. She grew up in Ravensdale, Wash., about an hour outside of Seattle. Not too far from town, but far enough that there was nothing to do ”but be grubby little kids and make music.“ (more)

From Lumino Magazine: Growing up outside of Seattle, Brandi Carlile pays homage to the rich landscape that makes up the West Coast. (more)