Brandi Carlile - Full Performance (Live on KEXP)

you've got a tune to listener power to KEXP Seattle the afternoon show I'm Kevin Cole you just heard starting off that set a brand new track from Pearl Jam their first new song in like five years called can't deny me and they dedicated the live performance a debut of that song to the survivors of the parkland Florida shooting and the students that took part in that day's walk out they performed it on March 14th and right after that Pearl Jam with again today that is from cover stories Brandi Carlile's celebrates ten years of the story here on the afternoon show and joining me right now it is Brandi Carlile along with the twins Phil and Tim Hans Roth welcome to KEXP thanks for having us yeah it is so great having you here I'm I'm thrilled I'm really excited the new album is so awesome how about a couple songs and then we'll talk a bit about it yeah you got it cool thank you guys [Music] I haven't seen my father in some time but his face is always staring back at me is any antenna at the ends of my and my color train like I see but I don't worry much about downloads cuz I'm not gonna now the dreams I couldn't find he told me how to walk the best leader [Music] I left behind most of all you taught me to forgive I to keep cool how to love the one you ate and when I'm far into the distance and the pushing comes to shove you remember what comes back when you give give away when you give it away give away [Music] I haven't heard my mother's voice in a while but her words are always fallen of my man my mind and spirit oh I don't sometimes and they fight learn or better I still care enough to bear the weight of the heaviness to which my hardest other she told me how to be strong and say goodbye [Music] most of all she taught me a fight across the line between when I'm turned out in the darkness and the pushing comes to shove to remember where comes back when you give away give away when you give it away give away [Music] give your love away [Music] [Music] I haven't seen my father in but his face is always staring back [Music] is heavy and swing from the ends of my palms and my cup change like the sea [Music] [Music] you feeling nervous aren't you boy with your quiet voice an impeccable style don't ever let them steal your joy and your gentle ways to keep they can kick dirt in your face dress you down and tell you that your places in the middle when they hate the way you shine I see it talking on your shirt trying to hide inside of it and hide how much it hurt [Music] little spin [Music] I have been to the movies [Music] you get discouraged don'tcha girl it's your brother's world for a while longer you got it along a river to beat the stream and call it living the dream call it kick in the ladder they come to kick dirt in your face to call you we can in this place you have to carry in your baby on your back across the desert you're behind your hair and you're looking tired but you down [Music] [Applause] [Music] ha [Music] Brandi Carlile live on the afternoon show with the twins I've got Tim on guitar and vocals and Phil on on bass and that Tim on that song hopping on piano the joke and most of all both from the new album by the way I forgive you and first of all welcome to kxp welcome to the new home thank you thanks for having us this is absolutely amazing it's it's surreal it is and thank you so much for helping build it yeah man of course yeah you did the pin drop tour at the more in theater back in February 2015 and that was just stunning that was a show with no microphones sold-out room and and everybody even up to the top you know back row I could hear every every nuance just an amazing show and a great fundraiser for KEXP so thanks man we don't even know Seattle or this country without KEXP well it's such a it's the back of my hand I almost drove to the old building on my way here tonight just because it's like such a part of our of our lives well thank you thank you for making it so and in helping build it as well so the new out man wow what a hell of an album thank you very much you you just totally nailed it I mean the songs the subject matter the singing the the lyrics the the playing the production even the album covers intents the whole thing is really intense I love the album cover yeah it scares my daughter it does yeah did Scott even do that yeah Scott Avett painted that yeah I I love his paintings I've always been a fan of Scott David's of his artwork in general and I asked him to paint me for the cover of the record but like I didn't want to see it I didn't want to have it be painted from a picture or anything so he's like yeah I'll paint you if you come and fly to North Carolina and sit for me all day so I did sweet and I didn't see it tell it we had until it was the cover of the album are you comfortable doing that like letting go of control and given things up no yeah horribly and I mean like life-changing ly uncomfortable with it and that was sort of the theme of this album and I figured hell you know if we're gonna do this with the music we might as well continue that right on through the art work and Pete Souza the White House photographer for Obama he took all the photographs he came and stayed at my house for like eight days Wow and just every time I woke up in the morning all grumpy he was just standing there yeah that's incredible that's cool yeah he's got a great Instagram feed it is so good post Obama years pretty inspiring and somewhat distressing stuff too when you put it in the context yeah so this new album really unpacked so a lot of sort of is it safe to say kind of difficult topics yeah absolutely yeah like you know family dynamics politics addiction forgiveness things that I'm sure the three of you have faced and things that we collectively as a society deal with what daily yeah what caused these themes to come up for this record and now I think that what makes them appear so focused is that sort of for the first time we carved the pieces of the stone away from the sculpture that didn't fit so you know we we usually have a little bit of a collection of these kind of like straight to the heart of the matter kinds of songs but then we put other songs around them that are easier to sing and easier for us to cope with like more poppy songs maybe we did you um you know songs with more you know generic choruses or that are more about fun or dancing or summertime or animals or nature that's kind of a classic Brandi Carlile on the twins theme and this time we just really pointedly let those songs fall away and the ones that were left were the ones that were the most difficult to sing and we knew that that was that was the record difficult to sing emotionally emotionally absolutely yeah and is singing them now and having recorded them is that cathartic or is it painful when you when you're in that moment I thought it was cathartic recording them but playing them live is actually what the cathartic part is because it's it's it's really difficult to get through I'm noticing that I have to play these songs a dozen times maybe live to get through the lump in my throat ugly voice keeping my face from going you know that emotional place yeah that emotional place it that just nobody really comes to see that show see gotta hold it together a little bit they do I mean they come to feel it for sure - yeah but but I would imagine as an artist that's got to be hard I know I know sometimes when we do like music heals cancer day and I'm reading an incredibly emotional email from a listener mm-hmm you know if I go there once you've gone there like you're gonna you're gonna break down yeah and that's right where I'm at so I've just got through that on like sugar tooth the joke and the mother but the rest of them bring me right back they're still so got work to do sugar tooth the song about addiction yeah and is it about the opium epidemic here just get more broad absolutely it's just about a specific person that didn't make it you know through what we're dealing with and what we're seeing in this country everyday with opiates yeah and over prescribing and in problems that people are having with with drugs yeah serious problems big problems yeah so you use the metaphor in in an article I read about this sort of lump in the throat being I think you were talking about a little differently but in terms of being sorted the barometer of whether a song is good or not yeah for this record yeah just describe that and what he meant well I get it I get the lump in my throat when I'm singing emotional songs that I haven't totally come to terms with yet I get it when real rock and roll is happening which is a feeling when I'm on stage and I I know the song but I don't have any command over it yet and it could only derail it any second I get that lump in my throat and then I get the lump in my throat when I hear really really great music doesn't matter what genre it is I it's my barometer for like great music I mean if I when I watch Kendrick Lamar it's there right there the whole time yeah yeah that's cool I like that I like that concepts if you know it's difficult just going into that space right yeah was that different for for you Tim and Phil in terms of writing on this record well for me you know I kind of set out to do what I always do which is just always play just kind of let whatever's in there come out but I think the difference for me personally was just seeing the world through the lens of a father and having like the ability to see everyone as someone's kid yeah you know someone's dad and that changed a lot for me we're basically bawling like babies all the time now I know we used to be a lot more fun that shows I'm sure are awesome and the album is just wonderful so in in talking about the album you you've referenced forgiveness as an act that is inherently radical yeah it's radical love that idea and in exploring the scene through your music sort of what got you did that point to to pin it down as something extremely I just noticed that the words gotten diluted it's gotten a little bit diluted by kind of a perfectionistic society it's become a kind of a evangelical buzzword hashtag blessed kind of word when it's really filthy radical difficult impossible thing to do that it might be the very reason why we're even here on earth is to learn how to do it yeah and it's um it's not a word to be taken lightly and I think that it's so much easier said than done and I just want to talk about it and sing about it for a little while that's cool now in in the 12-step program for addiction recovery there's this concept of ask forgiveness we're going through that process you you reach out to people that you feel like you've harmed but this is like immense this is like the flip of that this is proactively forgiving people mm-hmm whether they're sorry or not whether they even yeah whether they even you know exactly and that is super cool and that's got to be an incredible weight yeah and in some ways a gift for that person as well whether they want to do deal with it or not yeah and it's for forgiveness of circumstance too not just people but yeah what do you mean by that well the parts of life that you're not that you think you're ready for that you're that you're you think you're you know setup to cope with it maybe you aren't yeah like things that that you can't forgive your parents for like like dying you know leaving you yeah things that you can't forgive like how much more difficult it is to be a parent and assimilate into that life than you thought that it that it would be and then in those situations you have no antagonist you know you have no subject that you can blame but you have to be able to find a radical forgiveness despite that totally love saying I can do it just saying I can sing about it well I mean in the letter that you wrote in advance of the record is a great example though of this kind of forgiveness and some of the real positives that can come out of that I think so for listeners that don't know leading up to the album's release you published an open letter to a minister that that had refused to baptize you in in front of family and friends because you as a teenager you were openly gay yeah and you wrote this incredibly moving wreck occur letter part of it says I still love you I understand that we're on a journey together trying to do our best but what I want you to know most of all is that you did not damage my faith not in God not in humanity not my self and the experienced inspired me to help other gay kids and my spiritual LGBTQ brothers and sisters come to terms with the disappointments they've endured on the rugged road to peace and acceptance yeah that's really powerful thanks and it's amazing I mean that's that's lump in the throat material for me and also I think a really good example of just how this kind of you know something that hangs with you yeah right yeah I didn't realize how much that experience hurt me until I was wrestling with a concept of radical forgiveness forgiveness that's not accusatory but genuinely I do genuinely do forgive and love that man yeah there's a sense of empathy there but also yeah you know you wouldn't be able to have the perspective on this at the time but but the gifts that came out of it yeah right that it's inspired you so yeah that's cool it has inspired me I appreciate you bringing it up so it's a brandy car while the twins here live on kxb the afternoon show if you're listening you can be watching this we're doing live Facebook streaming of it how about a couple more songs yeah sure okay cool [Music] I just had my second daughter Alijah my first daughter is called Evangeline Evangeline ruth carlisle she's listening out there today she took me by surprise and I didn't feel that enough people were honest with me about how difficult it was to be a parent and I believed that I was going to be overwhelmed with instinct and what I was overwhelmed with was sheer terror so I want to write a song about it it's called the mother [Music] welcome to the end of being the lone inside your mind you're tethered to another and you were it all the time you always knew the melody but you never heard it right she's fair and she is quiet Lord she doesn't look like me she made me love the morning she's a Holiday Inn see New York streets are as busy as they always used to be but I am the mother [Music] the first things that she took from me were selfishness and sleep she broke a thousand heirlooms I was never meant to ki she filled my life with color cancelled plans and trashed my car none of that was ever who we are outside of my windows are the mountains in the snow I only while you're sleeping and I wish that I could go oh my many friends are out accomplishing their dreams but I am the mother of Evangeline they still got their morning vapour their coffee and their time and they still enjoy their evenings with the sceptics and the wine oh but all the wonders I have seen I will see a second time from inside of the ages through your eyes you are not some accident where no one floated through the world that stood against us made us mean to fight for you and when we chose your name when you that you'd fight the power to [Music] you're nothing short of magical and beautiful to me I'll never in the big town without you so they can keep their treasure and their ties to the machines I am the mother of they can keep their treasure and their ties to the machine I am the mother [Music] [Music] it's Brandi Carvalho live on the afternoon show kxp playing it the more this Friday and Saturday before that up in Vancouver at the Commodore Ballroom and first week of April at the Beacon Theater in New York a whole week residency there's that one is that right it's three nights that's cool three very very big nights in my life I'm pretty excited about it but I'm excited about the more - man yeah they'll be it'll be fantastic representing the hometown [Music] if you haven't said this yet in your life you probably need to to somebody hey if I don't owe you a favor you don't know me I don't believe we've ever even if there's a God in heaven I guess I should admit I lost the pen there were moments I could hold you [Music] laughter way too long their days when a change with the weather and plays with the world there's a road let's be I never ever not speak up [Music] - I love you whatever you do [Music] a life to live [Music] nothing on my breath to hold the knife [Music] and I never said I'm sorry but [Music] only yeah [Music] whatever you do [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] Brandi Carlile lava in the afternoon show it's KEXP where the music matters two songs from the new album by the way I forgive you whatever you do and the track the mother Brandi you've always been an activist and it's been a pretty surreal jolting couple of years hasn't it it hasn't it and it just keeps getting weirder and weirder so what extent has that been fuel and and to what extent is the current political climate motivated you to what extent is it just hard it is just hard man but and it's it's fuel to both things I think that's those are two intuitive words um as far as insight and the way it the way it feels for me but the thing I love about being a part of this country right now is I think that the current political climate has galvanized a nation of activists unlike a nation of activists that we've seen since Vietnam and the civil rights movement yeah so I'm really proud to be here right now and I'm proud to be a part of it yeah it feels that way and you especially given the last couple weeks and you participated in Saturday's March for our lives did and your cover of the dillons at times they are a-changin man was so powerful and the line your sons and your daughters are beyond your command like man that never felt so real yeah and the way you belted it out at that performance at Seattle Center was was fine tingling I mean it was really amazing what was the experience like for you it was like an out-of-body I mean experience it was totally surreal I don't know if you remember you know where you were at mentally emotionally at 16 years old but I was nowhere near as focused and articulate and powerful as as these kids are I'm so proud to support this generation I think this is a really fantastic one I'm glad that these kids are gonna be my kids teachers and I'm glad they're gonna be looking after me when I get old yeah yeah it's amazing with what they're doing and it's it is inspiring it's not just what they're saying it's how they're saying it totally they're carrying themselves with true grace and pride yep would you mind doing the Dylan something oh man I'd love to cool shall we do that you guys ready all right okay cool does that sound thin tune enough more tune and Dylan's guitar it's in protest [Music] I want to send this one out to the kids that marched in Seattle and then we're at the Seattle Center come gather round people wherever you roam and admit that the waters around you have grown and accepted it soon you'll be drenched to the bone if your time you were saving well then you'd better start swimmin or you'll sink like a stone for the times they are a-changin and all you writers and critics who prophesize with your pens yeah well keep your eyes wide the chance won't come again and don't speak too soon for the wheel still in spin and there's a no telling you that it's namin for the loser right now might be later to win and the time there [Music] all your senators and congressmen please either call [Music] don't you stand in your doorway don't lock up your halls Morini who gets hurt will be he you as star and that battle outside that region will shoot me rattle in your windows and Shake in yours for the time [Music] Oh [Music] what you [Applause] [Music] and your old road is so come on and get out of the if you can online your [Music] [Music] not [Music] [Applause] [Applause] [Music] they are a-changin yeah so good that is awesome thank you thanks for letting us do that oh yeah brandy car Wow and the twins Phil and Tim and Zahra thank you so much for being here man thanks man incredible the vocals just so good man thank you thank you so the new album is absolutely fantastic by the way I forgive you I like how that's almost a weird afterthought and that's that's fantastic the tours coming up North American tour a couple dates here this weekend at the Moore theater Thursday night at the Commodore up in Vancouver the New York shows at the Beacon Theater then I guess you're gonna be super crazy busy for the summer for the summer yeah yep and then we'll come back to Seattle probably in the fall and do something triumphant here awesome baby thank you so much yeah we will thanks for playing live this afternoon taking the time out to come by thank you for helping build on ukx being which is awesome it's our pleasure and thanks for writing these songs and making this new album it's fantastic Thank You brothers been awesome talking to you today yeah thank you and speaking of thanks I thanks to Jim Scott Justin oh yeah on video have you know the produced video up soon Matthew taken photographs Kevin Suggs engineering Matt Oh gasps on the board with son Elaine on hospitality and huge thanks to all the donors that make making studios like this one with brandy car well today impossible it is KEXP Seattle discover new music get listener powered KEXP dot o-r-g

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Length: 38min 15sec (2295 seconds)

Published: Fri May 11 2018