Brandi Carlile
Broken Record with Rick Rubin, Malcolm Gladwell, Bruce Headlam and Justin Richmond
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How T-Bone Burnett Changed My Life
T-Bone Burnett played blue for me when I was making the story. And her voice was so high and she got to the line that said, "I want to renew you" It just bothered me; it was like, this is not tough. This is feminine. When I dove into Joni, I did a deep dive because I realized that I wasn't just fundamentally wrong about Joni Mitchell. I was fundamentally wrong about what he thought it meant to be tough.
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