{"id":3954,"date":"2021-11-01T01:00:55","date_gmt":"2021-11-01T06:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/read.streamapse.com\/?p=3954"},"modified":"2021-11-01T01:00:55","modified_gmt":"2021-11-01T06:00:55","slug":"brandi-carlile-i-always-want-to-engage-the-listener-in-a-question-instead-of-an-answer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/?p=3954","title":{"rendered":"Brandi Carlile – I Always Want To Engage The Listener In A Question Instead Of An Answer"},"content":{"rendered":"

Brandi Carlile in a conversation about her new album and its provocative title. \u201cThat’s why it’s In These Silent Days. It’s a question: What did you learn? What did you make of yourself? What did you lose? What happened to you in this time? I want to invite people to reflect, because it’s such a pivotal time in human history, and a real spiritual upheaval for so many people in really positive and really negative, complicated ways.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Carlile herself was in a deeply retrospective\u2014and stationary\u2014place when she started working on her seventh album. After the resounding success of 2018\u2019s By the Way, I Forgive You (which earned her three Grammys), the folk-rock singer-songwriter and her collaborators Phil and Tim Hanseroth (affectionately known as \u201cthe twins\u201d) spent much of the two years following its release on the road, pausing only to record the 2019 debut record from The Highwomen, Carlile\u2019s country supergroup with Maren Morris, Amanda Shires, and Natalie Hemby, and for Carlile to co-produce While I\u2019m Livin\u2019, the comeback album for outlaw country queen Tanya Tucker. The pandemic forced a slowdown in 2020, and that\u2019s when Carlile started writing\u2014the songs that would eventually wind up on In These Silent Days, but also her memoir, Broken Horses.<\/p>\n

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\u201cWriting that book gave me this really linear understanding of \u2018here’s how I started and here’s how I am, and these are the things in between that made it so,\u2019 and it was such clarity,\u201d she says. \u201cThis was the first time that I knew what I was writing the songs about while I was writing them. I had so much more to pull from, so much more sensory material, than this abstract half-truth.\u201d<\/p>\n

In These Silent Days meets the standard Carlile has set for her own songwriting: Piano-laden power ballads abound, from the sweeping grandeur of album opener \u201cRight on Time\u201d to the Elton John-channeling \u201cLetter to the Past\u201d through to \u201cSinners, Saints and Fools,\u201d which gives any rock opera climax a run for its money. Fingerpickin\u2019 folk anthems (\u201cMama Werewolf\u201d), acoustic meditations (\u201cWhen You\u2019re Wrong\u201d), and straightforward rock (\u201cBroken Horses\u201d) round out the album and recall the intimacy and intensity that have come to define her live shows. It\u2019s both a companion piece to her memoir and a separate musical autobiography: This is how Carlile spent her silent days, and she wouldn\u2019t have had it any other way.<\/p>\n

\u201cI realized how much affirmation I get from strangers\u2014that life-affirming response that you get from an audience when you perform,\u201d she says of her new perspective gleaned from this transformative time. \u201cIf everybody could just have a job where they just go to scream and stomp all the time, I think they would probably find themselves a little more well-rounded.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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