Take Note: Brandi Carlile

[Music] you've got no one to tell them Brandi Carlile has a loyal following thanks to songs like the story want herself some Grammys as well with Tracy Smith we take note [Music] by the time she took the stage at this year's Grammys Brandi Carlile had already won [Music] literally she'd already won three Grammys out of the six she was nominated for for her new album and this song the joke and anthem for outcasts that brought the audience to its feet she'd spent the days before planning things like what to wear but she'd been preparing for this her whole life how big of a moment is this I mean it feels like a really big moment to me it feels really big she's had lots of big moments lately including her sold-out music festival in Mexico where fans knew every word to her songs [Music] truth is Brandi Carlile may be the most popular musician you've never heard of the one all the cool kids already adore President Obama put her on his favorite music playlist and Bradley Cooper put her in his movie [Music] you seem to be every celebrities favorite musician really I think so yeah everybody loves an underdog it's a scrappy status she's quite proud of 37 year old Carlisle and her band identical twins Tim and Phil Han Seraph have been building a name for themselves for more than a decade not a household name mind you but that's okay we don't have the mass appeal or mainstream assimilation that some of these other artists that were nominated alongside do and they deserve it too you know do you care no I don't care I mean I love my life exactly the way it is her life when she's not out touring or collecting Grammys is here in the rural outskirts of Seattle ever think about moving oh hell no no way and and everything that I do make I put it back in to the house Carlisle bought this farm when she was just 21 and she's been perfecting it by hand ever since and then you built this pond I mean the twins dead yeah and this is her idea of a splurge an excavator so she and the twins can dig more homes [Music] when Brandi Carlile met the Hansa Roth twins on the Seattle music scene about 14 years ago the three of them immediately clicked same musical tastes same sense of humor but the twins had day jobs Brandi did not at the end of the night we play these gigs for our gigs and they would stuff their money back into my guitar case that's really sweet I almost feel like we hit it off as friends so well that the music almost didn't matter you know if you knew the music was good but the friendship was so fun it was just sort of like 90% of the work was just the hang was so great you know as they each started families of their own they've only gotten closer phil married Brandis sister Tiffany if you eat it you get your dessert if you don't you know and when they're not on the road the twins and their families spend most nights at Brandy's I know it's amazing I take it for granted sometimes but I know it's unique it sounds amazing my friends that are in bands are like you're crazy it's the most unhealthy fear lay still life's little luxuries or something Carlisle never takes for granted growing up she and her sister and brother and parents all lived in a single-wide trailer in rural Washington we were very very poor I'm never gonna know how to be to be anything other than poor you know it's it's in me it'll always be in me and you like that yeah I do like it you're proud of it I'm proud of it her mom sang in a country band and as a kid Brandi did too and the highlight of my life was getting taken into bars from bar to bar at 7 8 9 years old and singing with my mom's been she'd pull you up on stage oh yeah so that was just it that's what I was going to do period she dropped out of school taught herself guitar and piano and started playing pizza joints and fish shacks any place that would have her by the time she met the twins Brandi Carlile's name was well known locally so they kept it as the name of the band they decided early on they'd split all the credit and the money three ways we did sit down and say you know let's not do what other bands do and start talking about who contributes what because life is going to floo and sometimes somebody else might put in more work than another person so let's just split everything we ever make three ways no questions asked and what will win in the end is the music their 2007 album the story was a breakthrough the title song was everywhere including a car ad which came with a six-figure paycheck but the band didn't divvy up that money instead they gave it all away they started the looking-out foundation that supports causes ranging from the environment to children displaced by war in some ways I think it's as as important as anything we've ever done musically you do yeah I do Brandis wife Catherine Shepard runs the charity they have two daughters baby Elijah and four-year-old Evangeline who made us sticker covered poster celebrating moms Grammy nods I think probably cardi B has one of those in her house too I'm sure [Music] how fitting that this song is her new hit where the underdog ultimately comes out on top Brandi Carlile's seen how it ends and she's ready I don't know that I would have been ready for this in my 20s or even five years ago without sounding Pollyanna or overly earnest I'm filled with joy and gratitude right now [Applause]

Channel: CBS Sunday Morning

Views: 431,801

Keywords: CBS Sunday Morning, CBS News, news, secret, cool kids, musician, spotlight, songwriter, brandi carlile, singer, album

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Length: 6min 54sec (414 seconds)

Published: Sat Apr 13 2019