I hurt people as much as I’ve been hurt.”Īs a child, Carlile discovers the power of music to soothe and comfort. I have been lost, racist, religious, brutal, and broken before.
I can’t be seen as an angel in these times or any times, although I wish it were so. “I just personally find it liberating to tell you this because it’s true. “Artists I love never seem to reveal themselves later in life as a person who struggled to get by in their youth and also a person who is a narcissistic, insufferable asshole at times,” she writes. While the trajectory of her life is here for us to follow - growing up poor in rural Washington state dropping out of high school singing in a bar band with her mother beginning to think she was gay setting out on her own to make music meeting up with the Hanseroth twins and starting a band that has now grown into a family winning Grammys for best Americana album ( By the Way I Forgive You), Best American Roots Song (“The Joke”) and Best American Roots Performance in 2018 marrying Catherine Shepherd in 2012 - the golden threads stitched on every page of this book are Carlile’s clear-eyed reflections on her struggles and the lessons she’s learned from them. Like the sailor she is, she’s looking out on the horizon, seeing the breakers and knowing that turbulence sometimes swirls beneath the calmer waters beyond them, but she now has the tools to navigate whatever roiling seas come her way. Every page of her memoir, which came out Tuesday, reveals a soul trying to find its way, a woman candidly acknowledging her own shortcomings and trying to find her place and herself in an often chaotic world, and a woman who discovers redemption in music and a certain amount of peace in the struggles of life. In her new memoir, Broken Horses (Crown), just as in her music, Carlile’s ability to turn a phrase and to name an emotion with just the right word is majestic. With Carlile, we know we’re seeing and hearing the person behind the song laying her heart and emotions out there for us all to share and from which we can all learn. Carlile entrances us with her stories of people just like us, facing the same challenges and losses, the same comforts and victories, the same hard lessons that life lays in our paths, and she compels our attention because of her heart-on-her-sleeve honesty. Brandi Carlile knows how to captivate she invites us into her songs with her ability to evoke feelings of isolation and loss, forgiveness and hope, love and joy.
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