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| The Story | 
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| Artist: Brandi Carlile
Label: SonyBMG
Category: Music
List Price: £16.99
Buy New: £4.36
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Avg. Customer Rating:  48 reviews
Sales Rank: 1001
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
UPC: 886972867823
EAN: 0886972867823
ASIN: B0013V2V3E
Release Date: April 21, 2008
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
Condition: Brand new - Factory sealed - Import edition We ship via first class mail from Miami, Florida.USA
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| Customer Reviews:
Suprisingly Good June 26, 2008
I wasn't sure of this one at the time of ordering, but it actually was good. It's a great 'easy listen', perfect for most occasions. I listen to this one mostly in the car.
If you like a bit of 'calm' in your music... I can recommend this.
 Everything you want from an album... here. June 24, 2008
Nothing beats the process of falling in love with a newly discovered new artist... and this album was exactly that feeling.
I can just say wow... songs like 'Late Morning Lullaby' I love it!! very few things can beat the blend of acoustic guitars with a powerful chorus melody along with some great background vocals.
How would I classify Brandi, like many great artists she uses elements from many different places, including rock, country & folk.
'The Story' just blew my mind... I'm struggling expressing the power of Brandi's voice here is just unbelievable, a mixture of melancholy & pain that REALLY love in a singer... she suffers the pain of the lyrics and the melody is just perfect.
Maybe is just cliche, but her songs are very cinematic... I just can't stop to imagine scenes and events happening with Brandi's songs on the background! I'm just a prostitute of melody, I give everything away after a song that has sadness and feeling through the vocal line...
Let the music play!!!
Stunning! June 18, 2008
I have to agree with the other reviewers here and say that Brandi Carlile's album "The Story" is excellent and a breath of fresh air in the female singer song writer market with her rich textured vocals that on some tracks have the right amount of anguish and despair to put across the lyrical content, this could have something to do with the masterful production by T. Bone Burnett the bass sound of this album is deep and chunky and soundstage is massive check out his other great recent work with Robert Plant and Alison Krauss on their "Raising Sand" collection.
The promo version of the album I have has only thirteen tracks and there are no sleeve notes no lyrics and apart from the production credit and Ms Carlile's name I have no idea who the other musicians' are, just know to these ears the standard of musicianship is excellent.
The singing style of Brandi slightly reminds me of Lucinda Williams and others such as Shelby Lynne and her sister Allison Moorer
I may have to buy this album myself to hear the live tracks, because her performance on the B.B.C.'s "Later with Jools" was nothing short of stunning by my experience an artist who is just as good live as she is in the recording studio.
An album of the year if there is any justice in the World
Nothing new, but still good quality May 12, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
For those unfamiliar with Brandi Carlile's work, she's probably best compared to KT Tunstall, with similar use of instrumentation and a similar vocal range. But whereas Tunstall's second album substantially developed on her first, Carlile's follow-up to her eponymous debut takes only modest steps forward, whilst ticking all the same boxes. So it's still angsty guitar-heavy rock with a little country influence; fortunately, it's also still rather good.
An example: in her first album, Carlile often slides around the music, glissing between notes, giving a lazy, luxurious quality to some of her songs. In the follow-up, she lets her voice slide further, across whole octaves, between registers even, and she even occasionally lets it break angrily. This is not a profound change to the way she sings, but a moderate development of her old style.
It feels like a quality album and is a good listen, and worth hearing more than once - but still I hope that Brandi will be a little more daring in her next album.
 Not quite country, not quite blues May 8, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Is this blue with a country feel or country with a blues feel?
Advertised under the blues genre this is perhaps a little misfiled as if you're expecting something in the genre of BB King or Muddy Waters then you will be disappointed. This is more like Tammy Wynette produced by a blues artist and if you look at the back of the album you can see a very good reason for that; the producer is T Bone Burnett who is well known in the traditional american music tradition so it's perhaps not surprising that the end result is something of a crossover between the genres. Indeed it would be very tempting to compare it to the recent material that Robert Plant has been doing with Alison Krauss which is also produced by T Bone Burnett and also has that same feeling of crossing over between genres.
Ignoring the style how does it hold up as an album? Well most of the material here is very solid material, very well played, sung and produced. The sort of album which is likely to please everyone but when I try and think of any particular track I find that none of them were that memorable. Bradi Carli is the sort of artise whose work I suspect I will always have time to listen to if not going as far as spending very much money on it. This is an easy listening country / blues crossover, probably interesting to fans of either of those genres but with limited appeal outside of those.
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