From the note she feared she wouldn’t hit at the 2019 Grammys to the story behind “Turpentine,” lyrics and moments are given fresh meaning.
Without going on a tangent about gun rights, she simply states “he should have never been allowed to own a gun” after a close friend takes his own life.Īfter spending years laying herself bare in her songs, she lets down yet another wall in the pages of “Broken Horses.” For longtime listeners, Carlile gives context and color to her songs and career highlights. She knows how to use a few words to make a big impact. She’d already proven her storytelling chops as a lyricist and she proves them once again in these pages. She’s perceptive, vulnerable, humble, funny and above all else, a good story teller. “Your life is in fact twisted and beautiful and you’ll find that as you peel back the layers, the unexpected side effect is that it feels wonderful to be known,” she writes in her acknowledgements. Thirty-nine may seem a little young to write a memoir, but in Carlile’s opinion no one is too young, too old or too uninteresting to write their own story.
In Carlile’s memoir “Broken Horses,” she shares the story of how a “shy and quiet but very clever” kid who grew up in a “run-down single-wide mobile home up on top of a mountain” in Washington went on to become close friends with her childhood hero Elton John, win multiple Grammys and produce country icon Tanya Tucker’s last album. “I never wanted to leave that stage.” Thirty-nine may seem a little young to write a memoir, but in Brandi Carlile’s opinion no one is too young, too old or too uninteresting to write their own story. Crown via AP “The applause at the end was the nail in the coffin of any other path I might have gone down in life,” writes Carlile. Armed with a powder-blue cowboy hat bedazzled by her mother, a homemade vest and a turquoise bolo tie made by her great-grandfather, Brandi Carlile gave her first solo performance at the Northwest Grand Ole Opry Show at 8 or 9.
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