Brandi Carlile - Hallelujah Recorded Live: 8/3/2008 - Newport Folk Festival - Newport, RI More Brandi Carlile at Music Vault: www.musicvault.com Subscribe to Music Vault on RU-vid: goo.gl/DUzpUF
Agreed, but check out her duets with Anderson East. I'm confident that you won't be disappointed. It's my opinion that he is the male version of Brandi. Brilliant and eclectic.
I’ve heard many artists cover this song but Brandi Carlile’s performance is absolutely mind blowing and palpably beautiful! I’m sitting here mesmerized and moved to goosebumps, tears and even more goosebumps! Absolutely sensational! ❤🥰
My husband and I flew into Chicago just to catch Brandi’s concert back in 2012. I volunteered to sign up concert goers before the concert started. It was a Wonderful experience as we paid for great seats and we were given back stage passes to meet Brandi. She was incredibly kind and thoughtful. I asked her what prompted her to write Pride and Joy. She thought carefully then said it had to do with an argument she had with her Mom when she was 17. I appreciated her openness and honesty. That concert and meeting will go down as one of my most memorable life experiences. Glad people are appreciating the talent she was blessed with.
Thank you so much for sharing what Brandi said "Pride and Joy" meant to her! I've been listening to it for years, and it always makes me think of my mom and our very complicated relationship. I really love knowing this, because I always felt it is written about her own mother somehow. What a fantastic experience you had, getting to meet her backstage!
Brandi, there are many versions of this song, but you truly touch the nerve when you sing this song. My dad and a beautiful gal I met at the hospital dad's are going through a difficult time of cancer. the way you sing just catches my heartstrings. So i dedicate this song to Mei, her sis and Mom and especially her father who has a rare form of cancer an d of course my dad. It's hard when you're 79/80 to go tru this horrible disease. So for our superhero dads. ROCK ON! WE LOVE YOU WITH ALL OUR WAKING BREATH AND HEART......YVONNE & MEI
Watching safely from Canada. (America-you'd better figure out a federal response to this virus that threatens your entire country.) Cheers, from Toronto-but please do NOT visit this summer! ☮
Just the amazing control she has over that beautiful instrument that is her voice. What a maestro. This was stunningly good. *Everything* *she* *sings* is stunningly good.
First time i saw and heard Brandi was in Glasgow around 2009, she was supporting Newton Faulkner. I had never heard of her. I arrived early stood about 6ft from a very low stage, out she came with a smile, totally relaxed, and started her set with Late Morning Lullaby. I still remember the goosebumps, as i stood there in complete awe, and i have seen many many bands and artists over the years. She is without doubt the best female artist i have ever seen. I saw her again in Glasgow a few months later headlining her own show. Utterly brilliant. Hallelujah performed to perfection both times, effortlessly. I also had the privilege of speaking with her on both occasions. What a modest, humble and friendly human being. Brilliant song writer, and performer. Real music, about real life, talent oozing from her. What a voice.!!
(shaking head) Jesus Fucking Christ... This woman is ... I don't even have words. "Brandi carlile" needs to be its own word for flabbergasted knock down stunned in amazement at someones out of this world talent.
This was 16 years ok. I'm a new fan of Brandi's music her range is remarkable. I love this song and I think that was one of the best performances I've seen of someone singing that song.
An impromptu choice followed quickly by a depth of feeling that is unparalleled. Took but a few seconds for BC to set her frame of mind to dazzle us all. Such talent.
I'm a Brandi Carlile late bloomer too. I first heard the story maybe 6 months ago and fell in love with her style and voice (and her pretty face). This effort was my first where the guitarist didn't have a strap across the fretts for the desired tone, and I've heard so many versions. God Bless you, Ms.Brandi.
@chrishayworth282 I just said the same thing! OMGOODNESS, She is so phenomenal! I'm a brand new fan of hers. I just saw her perform for the 1st time myself w/P!nk in honor of Sinbad O'Connor just a few hours after the announcement of her passing 😢
Oh my god. Okay, I admit at first I was like, what's the big deal? By the end, I had both chills and tears. Unparalleled connection to this treasure of a song.
I can't hear this and NOT be deeply moved. This is a pristine, clean and POWERFUL re-invention of Cohen's classic. There is new beauty to this each time I come and revisit/replay this performance. Cohen's depth and Brandi's performance; what's not to love?
Currently listening to her audio book on Audible and so glad I decided on that instead of reading. She sings all through it just her and acoustic guitar and I would have missed that reading the book.
There is a beautiful performance of KD Lang singing this to Leonard Cohen the night he was honored for lifetime achievement in Canadian music.. KD interprets every nuance and emotion on every note. Brandi sings this well and takes her time..this is a song for the ages..A brave choice 👏.
Just discovered her on Austin City Limits tonight 8.3.18. Someone so special with a profoundly moving voice - but more than that. Soulful and emotional and transcendent. I send her good thoughts and blessings for the grace she will pour upon so many souls.
constance pierce yeah I was just recording ACL on public access and Brandi and the Crew were on it blew me back soulful honest and Rockin when she wants 💕🔥👍✌️
"In her rendition, on the other hand, Brandi Carlile is able to make herself an instrument upon which the song plays, rather than needing to wrestle with and vanquish it. Her version foregrounds the song, not herself or her voice; it is, we might say, an appropriately reverential take for a song called “Hallelujah.” It succeeds not vis-à-vis some canonical version of the song, because this is a song with no original-only covers" ....from an article in the Atlantic about the many covers of Hallelujah. Couldn't agree more with the authors assessment of Brandi's cover...
As much as I love the original and love Buckley's cover even more...Brandi is truly the master of this song. She's such a talented musician and the closest we have to real female country/bluegrass singers in this generation. We need more like her to bring heart and soul back to country. We also haven't had any new great female artists in the genre in a long time. She's the only one I can think of.
Probably because it’s still really hard to make in as a woman in the music industry. Record companies still have quotas on “female singers” and when they reach it, they won’t take anymore.
I get teared up every time I watch this. Though I am admittedly a little over medicated tonight, Brandi has one of the top ten female voices of all time, in my humble opinion.
And now I'm completely obsessed with her music , her songwriting , her story . her work on behalf of refugee kids from war zones . And I have all of her work at my finger tips a few clicks away . I am approaching the end of my life and feel totally blessed to have found Brandi Carlile ! I dream of seeing her in person but I know that's not going to happen . Brandi Carlile , I love you !
And I'm discovering her tonight. I was drawn to look up Emmy Lou Harris's haunting song "Red Girl" that I heard playing back in the kitchen at a retreat I was on over the weekend. I noticed a cover by Brandi Carlile from a Prairie Home Companion. That led to finding this deeply moving version of Cohen's anthem. Yes, Robert B. You have summed up the elements of the song beautifully.
I love Brandi, and I love her covers of this song (see her live album), but k.d. lang is my #1 cover of this song ("Hymns of the 49th Parallel" and her live renditions at the Vancouver Olympics and the tribute concert to Leonard Cohen after his death).
