Brandi Carlile
Broken Record with Rick Rubin, Malcolm Gladwell, Bruce Headlam and Justin Richmond
How I Singed for Real
My mom's dad was the kind of patriarch, family, yodeling, very glamorous, amazing man. He died really young of Lou Gehrig's disease actually. And with the money he left, which was not much, was just enough for my mom to buy a little PA system and she decided to start doing music for real. She started doing auditions and she took me with her to an audition at a place called the Northwest Grand Ole Opry - we both made it. The first song I sang was Tennessee Flat Top Box by Johnny Cash. Second one was San Antonio Stroll by Tenny Tucker. When I was 14 I started singing background vocals for an Elvis impersonator.
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