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91.9 WFPK Presents:

Brandi Carlile with special guest
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Friday, January 22, 2010
Bomhard Theater
All Ages / 8pm

On sale Friday November 6th @ 10am

Tickets $25 / $32.50

$1 from every ticket will go to The Looking Out Foundation
(more info can be about this charity can be found at
http://www.brandicarlile.com/ )

Tickets can be purchased at The Kentucky Center box office,
www.kentuckycenter.org or by phone (502) 584-7777,
(800) 775-7777 or TTY (502) 562-0730

Brandi Carlile - A biography
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Brandi Carlile
Give Up The Ghost

“I was just overwhelmed by the years, and by the influence that somebody can
have on another person’s life without even knowing it.” – Brandi Carlile

Give Up The Ghost, Brandi Carlile’s third album, unveils her talents in
their truest form. After 2 albums and non-stop touring, she has let her
guard down and offers her most candid recording to date. If the phrase “give
up the ghost” most often refers to death or dying, it can also be used to
describe the passing of stages in life, of transformation.

“They say it takes you your whole life to write your first record, and in
our case the first two records, and that you have to write your second
record in just a matter of months. So we went into the songwriting process
conscious of that, and really made an effort to just leave ourselves behind.
We wrote about about life, the world, how we felt, how we will feel. In that
sense, these songs are like time travelers in that they exist on a much more
ethereal plane, and that’s what ‘give up the ghost’ means to us,” Carlile
explains.

The recording of Give Up The Ghost offered new experiences including working
with the likes of Elton John, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
multi-instrumentalist Benmont Tench, drummer Chad Smith and Amy Ray of The
Indigo Girls, all of whom contribute to the album.

After debuting with a self-titled album in 2005, the Washington State-bred
Carlile saw her fanbase mushroom with her sophomore disc, The Story. Among
the growing legion of Carlile fans is Elton John. “Brandi has an amazing
voice,” he says. “She’s a great songwriter and has a tremendous career ahead
of her.” Proudly, Carlile says that John—who duets with her on the song
“Caroline”—played a key a role in her evolution as an artist: “When I was
11, I started listening to country and western music and I was totally
immersed in that Grand Ole Opry culture, wherein the entertainers are
usually not the ones who wrote the music. But when I discovered Elton John,
I realized that performers could write and perform their own songs, and I
immediately went out and got a keyboard, and started writing.” She was too
starstruck to tell him that when they recorded together. “I was just
overwhelmed by the years, and by the influence that somebody can have on
another person’s life without even knowing it.”

Give Up The Ghost was recorded at Sunset Sound in Hollywood, birthplace of
legendary recordings by The Doors and Led Zeppelin. The first single,
“Dreams,” was written with her longtime bandmates, twin brothers Tim and
Phil Hanseroth (on guitar and bass, respectively—Carlile’s band also
features cellist Josh Neumann). “The twins and I sat together in a circle
and wrote that, acoustically, with three-part harmonies. We put all of our
energy into and it, and played it on the road for a year. But when it came
time to record it with a drummer, we couldn’t get it right. It wasn’t
sounding as energetic as it was supposed to. So we decided to just record it
as the three of us. But, unbeknownst to us, in the other room, drums were
being recorded as we were playing. It worked—we didn’t end up changing the
way we play it.”

If she took root in performing songs by the likes of Patsy Cline as a child,
Carlile’s journey to places like Sunset Sound gained traction during her
teen years, when she began earning a living as a busker at Pike Place Market
in Seattle when not playing in a band. Eventually, she and the Hanseroth
twins recorded a collection of songs, for which they had modest hopes. To
their surprise, those songs became Brandi Carlile, which sold more than
120,000 copies and spawned the popular single “What Can I Say.”

Her second album, The Story, upped the ante considerably, selling 313,000
copies and rising to No. 41 on the Billboard albums chart, and boasting
songs like the title track and “Turpentine.” Several of Carlile’s songs have
appeared in commercials and on televisions shows such as Grey’s Anatomy.
Along the way, she’s toured with the likes of Ray LaMontagne, and Sheryl
Crow, who raved about Carlile’s support performances online: “She has the
most amazing voice I may have ever heard. Soulful. Country. Perfect in every
way—and propelled by taste.”

With all that encouragement and experience under her belt, when Carlile set
out to make Give Up The Ghost, she did so with ample ambition: “When we
recorded The Story, we set up our instruments with one drummer, like a
stage, and we treated the record like a show, and we recorded that
performance. This is the first time we treated something like a record. We
really dug in, and chose musicians, and instruments, and set-ups very
specifically to each song. We didn’t go halfway on anything.”

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