Broken Horses: A Memoir by Brandi Carlile
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ FIVE Star Review & so far my favorite Book that I listened to on Audio.🎧📚. I plan on buying a copy of this book and thank you to my husband for buying me the Audible of this. I listened via Libby.
I’ve heard of Brandi Carlile before. Never listened to music or followed her journey. I am so glad that I kept coming back to this Audio because I wanted to hear her tell “her” story. I have not had a book hit me so profoundly in honesty, years. I honestly lived for every, single, chapter to keep going and the music at the end of the chapter (mini spoiler) I took it all in. I cried a lot too with this one. I felt like I connected with Brandi in more ways then one. I enjoyed her story so very much and how it moved me personally. She’s definitely a story teller & a damn good one ( please excuse the language.) I hope one day I am able to see her in concert. It’s been since 2018 that I’ve been to a concert but man I’d love to see her Rock it out. I think, knowing me, I’d cry because I’d take in every, single, lyric she would sing, every, single note she’d play. I am honestly in awe of her and I guess l, yep fan girlish at 41. I highly without a doubt, Recommend this book, I got so much pit of the audio personally, but plan on buying this for my Birthday. Thank you Brandi for sharing your story with us, with me. Right know in my life this was the perfect book/Audio to have read/listened to. Brandi Carlile, thank you. ❤️ #BrokenHorses #BrandiCarlie #Singer #Wife #Mother #Songwriter #Producer #Preformer #GrammyWinner #LookingOutFoundation
Synopsis below👇🏼
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPR AND AUTOSTRADDLE • “The best-written, most engaging rock autobiography since her childhood hero, Elton John, published Me.”—Variety
Brandi Carlile was born into a musically gifted, impoverished family on the outskirts of Seattle and grew up in a constant state of change, moving from house to house, trailer to trailer, fourteen times in as many years. Though imperfect in every way, her dysfunctional childhood was as beautiful as it was strange, and as nurturing as it was difficult. At the age of five, Brandi contracted bacterial meningitis, which almost took her life, leaving an indelible mark on her formative years and altering her journey into young adulthood.
As an openly gay teenager, Brandi grappled with the tension between her sexuality and her faith when her pastor publicly refused to baptize her on the day of the ceremony. Shockingly, her small town rallied around Brandi in support and set her on a path to salvation where the rest of the misfits and rejects find it: through twisted, joyful, weird, and wonderful music.
In Broken Horses, Brandi Carlile takes readers through the events of her life that shaped her very raw art—from her start at a local singing competition where she performed Elton John’s “Honky Cat” in a bedazzled white polyester suit, to her first break opening for Dave Matthews Band, to many sleepless tours over fifteen years and six studio albums, all while raising two children with her wife, Catherine Shepherd. This hard-won success led her to collaborations with personal heroes like Elton John, Dolly Parton, Mavis Staples, Pearl Jam, Tanya Tucker, and Joni Mitchell, as well as her peers in the supergroup The Highwomen, and ultimately to the Grammy stage, where she converted millions of viewers into instant fans.
Evocative and piercingly honest, Broken Horses is at once an examination of faith through the eyes of a person rejected by the church’s basic tenets and a meditation on the moments and lyrics that have shaped the life of a creative mind, a brilliant artist, and a genuine empath on a mission to give back.
