When Brandi Carlile woke up in an unfamiliar barn one morning last fall, she was a little lost, more than a little hungover and feeling unexpectedly, profoundly alone. She had arrived the day after ...

Brandi Carlile has a way of making any performance feel like a tête-à-tête, a deep emotional exchange between friends that just happens to take place in a crowd. Yet the challenge of bringing songs ...

Every week, a guest draws a card from NPR's Wild Card deck and answers a big question about their life. Brandi Carlile says that in order to write her new album, she had to retreat from the version of ...