subject: Brandi Carlile Tickets - Get Ready For The Ghost [print this page] Though she's not showcasing her major-label debut (Columbia Records supporting her on the most recent set Give up the Ghost,) Brandi Carlile is everywhere. The indie artist is helping stream the mainstream with work by Rick Rubin, Benmont Tench, Red Hot Chili Peppers' Chad Smith and Elton John, along with his arranger Paul Buckmaster.
The new set, which appeared earlier this year in October, epitomizes the dark indie singer and songwriter, but with a more glitter. If you're into the indie rock vibe that Carlile exudes, make sure to check out her concert tour this year as she jaunts through venues from mid-January through mid-March, 2010, and check online for more Brandi Carlile tickets today.
Traveling everywhere with the Twins, as she calls them, otherwise known as her backing band Tim Hanseroth and Phil Hanseroth, Carlile recently visited her home town of Seattle and the retro record store Easy Street, where she ended up recording the live set Live at Easy Street. It was her third time visiting the shop, as she was an original guest who debuted in 2000 with the self-titled adventure via Red Ink Records, and Carlile is all about local, indie shopping.
"We're really rooted in our home town, it's innately who we are, and it's the fundamentals of where our musicianship came from," she said to Record Store Day while getting ready to perform at Easy Street. "We feel really connected to independent record stores, independent record labels...we love good sounding music." The idea seems simple enough, but for the major label crooner who tours with an indie feel it has been much more of a struggle to get her sound heard.
Though she's been around for nearly a decade, Carlile started performing as a toddler, hopping on stage with her country music-singing mother at only eight before tuning the guitar at 17. Her latest album, Give up the Ghost, was created in several months, an extensive period of time after the wildly successful The Story from 2007 was recorded in just two weeks. Though the longer development wasn't intentional, it has helped to make her sound softer after leaving her original Nashville producer. Though the first record was recorded in a typical way, it was "over produced," Carlile admits to NPR, and the group scratched the whole thing. "I have a tendency to be epic, and that can get really old...It's not hard to go from being intimate to be massive."
Touring with the Twins since the late '90s, Carlile and her men have opened for Dave Matthews, Shawn Colvin and India.Arie while promoting their Seattle coffeehouse sound before the songstress opened up with her own recordings in 2000. In 2005 she signed with Columbia and continued to shuffle around the States with her cello/ guitar playing singers, soon hailed as Rolling Stone's "Artist to Watch." Her deep, raspy voice melodically switches from pop to rock, soul, contemporary folk and country in the new set that reached the Top 30 on the Billboard 200 and fourth on Billboard's Top Digital Albums.
