How a Teenaged Brandi Carlile Quit School, Overcame Tragedy, and Met Her First Love
How a Teenaged Brandi Carlile Quit School, Overcame Tragedy, and Met Her First Love
In this excerpt from her memoir, Broken Horses, the singer-songwriter talks about some of the thrills and trauma from her adolescence
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Before Brandi Carlile was a folk-rock superstar, she was a high school dropout spending her time in a lakeside shed with her first real band, which comprised Carlile, her brother Jay, and a pair of thirty-something locals from Carlile’s native Washington State. Carlile’s teenage years days were full of uncertainty and exploration: In just a few short years, she would begin gigging relentlessly around Seattle and meet her future musical collaborators, the Hanseroth Twins. But before then,