Brandi Carlile, Jason Isbell, Shawn Colvin, and more will perform during a special virtual fundraiser for MusiCares ahead of the 2022 Grammys. The second Music on a Mission special will take place on March 30 and air on the live-streaming platform Mandolin. The charity concert debuted last year in an …
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Given Jason Isbell’s frightening talent for writing songs that make grown people weep, it is sometimes overlooked that he and his longtime band the 400 Unit are also wickedly skilled musicians whose live shows range from hushed intimacy to epic rock grandeur. Those chops are foregrounded on Georgia Blue, an …
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Brandi Carlile and Sturgill Simpson were two of the night’s big winners at the 2021 Americana Honors and Awards, held Wednesday night at the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville. Carlile won the Artist of the Year honor for a second time (she previously won the same award in 2019), while Simpson …
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Brandi Carlile will perform Joni Mitchell‘s Blue in its entirety at Carnegie Hall this fall, her second time covering the legendary LP. Carlile first performed the album in October 2019 in Los Angeles, shortly after she met the singer-songwriter at her 75th birthday tribute concert. Since then, the two musicians …
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To mark the release of her upcoming memoir Broken Horses, singer-songwriter Brandi Carlile will be taking part in a series of conversations with everyone from Dolly Parton to Leslie Jordan as part of a virtual book tour. Other conversations will feature former White House photographer Pete Souza, authors Glennon Doyle …
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The Highwomen offer up a hymn of togetherness and support in “Crowded Table,” the second track released from the supergroup’s upcoming debut album. The group also recently released “Redesigning Women” from the self-titled project, which was produced by Dave Cobb. “You can hold my hand when you need to let …
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Brandi Carlile calls out the male-dominated music business and the National Rifle Association in the as-yet-unreleased song “Cowgirls,” which she dedicated to “the boys in the country-music industry” in her live debut of the tune. With the acoustic, mid-tempo song’s finger-pointing lyrics Carlile asserts, “I don’t believe in wealth and …
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A few days removed from delivering a stunning version of “The Joke” at the 2019 Grammy Awards, Brandi Carlile appeared on Ellen to play a haunting acoustic version of the two-time Grammy-winning track. “The Joke” has become a staple not only of Carlile’s live shows in the year since it …
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