Brandi Carlile was looking forward to some time off when she finished work on her bestselling memoir, Broken Horses. But instead, when her friend Bernie Taupin sent her some poems he’d written, she found herself inspired to write an album’s worth of songs — just as reading his words in …
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Fresh off her two wins at Sunday’s Grammy Awards, Tanya Tucker appeared on Ellen and performed “Hard Luck” with Brandi Carlile and Shooter Jennings, the producers of her Grammy-winning album While I’m Livin’. “Hard Luck” was first recorded by Southern-rock band Josefus, and Tucker maintains the original’s tough vibes, as …
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“It is impossible for me to describe what this feels like right now,” Brandi Carlile said, addressing the crowd for the first time, three songs into her sold-out show at Madison Square Garden on Saturday night. Then the singer, performing what might have been the largest, or at least the …
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