{"id":28275,"date":"2018-03-17T10:46:17","date_gmt":"2018-03-17T18:46:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/?p=28275"},"modified":"2018-03-17T10:46:17","modified_gmt":"2018-03-17T18:46:17","slug":"watch-brandi-carlile-killin-on-colbert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/2018-03\/watch-brandi-carlile-killin-on-colbert\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch Brandi Carlile Killin&#8217; on Colbert"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/BCColbert.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-28279\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/BCColbert-480x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/BCColbert-480x600.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/BCColbert-120x150.jpg 120w, https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/BCColbert-320x400.jpg 320w, https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/BCColbert.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>One of the loftiest highlights of last year&#8217;s <strong>Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival<\/strong> was our long-time fave female singer-songwriter,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/bytheway.brandicarlile.com\/\"><strong>Brandi Carlile<\/strong><\/a>. <strong>Carlile<\/strong> simply has the most powerful, yet nuanced, female voice we have ever heard perform live to match her sensational songwriting. <strong>Carlile<\/strong> tore the roof of Golden Gate Park at <strong>HSB<\/strong>, which is no small feat. You can watch her <strong>HSB<\/strong> set <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hardlystrictlybluegrass.com\/2017\/webcast\/?mrid=114051\"><strong>HERE<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>To get a feel, watch <strong>Carlile&#8217;s<\/strong> performances this week on <strong>Colbert&#8217;s Late Show\u00a0<\/strong>below, replete with superb string-section. First up is the <em><strong>The Joke<\/strong><\/em> off of her fantastic recent album, <em><strong>By the Way, I Forgive You<\/strong><\/em>. \u00a0The song is\u00a0the lead single off the album, and\u00a0<strong>Carlile<\/strong> wrote it in opposition to today\u2019s sociopolitical malaise. About the song, she told NPR \u201cthere are so many people feeling misrepresented. So many people feeling unloved. \u00a0Little girls who got so excited for the last election, and are dealing with the fallout. The song is just for people that feel under-represented, unloved or illegal.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The performances below have everything we want from music: passion, power, poetry (lyrics at bottom) and beauty. If you&#8217;re short on time, just listen to Carlile&#8217;s otherworldly vocals for 17 seconds at the 3:52 mark of <em><strong>The Joke<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0or for five seconds at the 3:58 mark of <em><strong>Whatever You Do\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>(a web-only video). Wow. The joke&#8217;s on them! God bless<strong> Brandi Carlile<\/strong>! It&#8217;s high-time <strong>Carlile<\/strong> becomes a household name across this land.<\/p>\n<p>Go pick up\u00a0<em><strong>By the Way, I Forgive You\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>and catch her tour <a href=\"http:\/\/bytheway.brandicarlile.com\/\"><strong>HERE<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/EJux02lrMeI\" width=\"625\" height=\"425\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ZVjotPfnBj8\" width=\"625\" height=\"425\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>The Joke<\/strong><\/em>:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You&#8217;re feeling nervous, aren&#8217;t you, boy?<br \/>\nWith your quiet voice and impeccable style<br \/>\nDon&#8217;t ever let them steal your joy<br \/>\nAnd your gentle ways, to keep &#8217;em from running wild<br \/>\nThey can kick dirt in your face<br \/>\nDress you down, and tell you that your place<br \/>\nIs in the middle, when they hate the way you shine<br \/>\nI see you tugging on your shirt<br \/>\nTrying to hide inside of it and hide how much it hurts<\/p>\n<p>Let &#8217;em laugh while they can<br \/>\nLet &#8217;em spin, let &#8217;em scatter in the wind<br \/>\nI have been to the movies, I&#8217;ve seen how it ends<br \/>\nAnd the joke&#8217;s on them<\/p>\n<p>You get discouraged, don&#8217;t you, girl?<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s your brother&#8217;s world for a while longer<br \/>\nWe gotta dance with the devil on a river<br \/>\nTo beat the stream<br \/>\nCall it living the dream, call it kicking the ladder<br \/>\nThey come to kick dirt in your face<br \/>\nTo call you weak and then displace you<br \/>\nAfter carrying your baby on your back across the desert<br \/>\nI saw your eyes behind your hair<br \/>\nAnd you&#8217;re looking tired, but you don&#8217;t look scared<\/p>\n<p>Let &#8217;em laugh while they can<br \/>\nLet &#8217;em spin, let &#8217;em scatter in the wind<br \/>\nI have been to the movies, I&#8217;ve seen how it ends<br \/>\nAnd the joke&#8217;s on them<\/p>\n<p>Let &#8217;em laugh while they can<br \/>\nLet &#8217;em spin, let &#8217;em scatter in the wind<br \/>\nI have been to the movies, I&#8217;ve seen how it ends<br \/>\nAnd the joke&#8217;s on them.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Whatever You Do<\/strong><\/em>:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If I don&#8217;t owe you a favor, you don&#8217;t know me<br \/>\nI don&#8217;t believe we&#8217;ve ever even met<br \/>\nIf there&#8217;s a God in heaven, you can show me<br \/>\nThen I guess I should admit I lost the bet<br \/>\nThere are moments I could hold you forever<br \/>\nAnd there are moments that lasted way too long<br \/>\nThere are days when I change with the weather<br \/>\nTo hold you in place would be wrong<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a road left behind me that I&#8217;d rather not speak of<br \/>\nAnd a hard one ahead of me, too<br \/>\nI love you, whatever you do<br \/>\nBut I got a life to live, too<\/p>\n<p>I never met a morning I could get through<br \/>\nWith nothing on my breath to hold the night<br \/>\nAnd I never said I&#8217;m sorry, but I meant to<br \/>\nI never met a coward I don&#8217;t like<br \/>\nThere are reasons why a body stays in motion<br \/>\nBut at the moment, only demons come to mind<br \/>\nThere are days when I could walk into the ocean<br \/>\nWith no one else but you to leave behind<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a road left behind me that I&#8217;d rather not speak of<br \/>\nAnd a hard one ahead of me, too<br \/>\nI love you, whatever you do<br \/>\nBut I got a life to live, too<br \/>\nThere&#8217;s a road left behind me that I&#8217;d rather not speak of<br \/>\nAnd a hard one ahead of me, too<br \/>\nI love you, whatever you do<br \/>\nBut I got a life to live, too&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the loftiest highlights of last year&#8217;s Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival was our long-time fave female singer-songwriter,\u00a0Brandi Carlile. Carlile simply has the most powerful, yet nuanced, female voice we have ever heard perform live to match her sensational songwriting. Carlile tore the roof of Golden Gate Park at HSB, which is no small feat. 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