I’m packing today for the start of a 5 week road trip with my wife, NYC to Seattle, to LA and back again. What a treat to take a break for a piece of beautiful art. We will definitely be bringing some Brandi with us on the road. If you see 2 ladies in a Subaru driving the back roads of America be sure to give us a wave!
I believe🌹Brandi Carlile to be the greatest female musician, singer, songwriter on earth. I can't box her into Country music, she's created her very own génre, yet to be named because she's so musically advanced in the present day. Brandi Carlile has earned her🎼🎓degree before she was born. I can't wait for her to tour in👏🏻Canada. 🇨🇦✌🏻🎶🎸✍🏻🇺🇸✨🌎💫
Listening to Brandy's voice and hearing her music is like wearing a fine vintage mink coat, buck naked. . . . only in a bitchin pair of cowgirl boots, maybe some sexy lingerie, or a favorite pair of short shorts while driving a rare convertable pristine Lincoln Continental, butter yellow with suiside doors On an endless road trip with all the fixins, and a friend who you totally adore...to ride shotgun, and keep the j-sticks lit up between the flirtings and the kissin' °♡°°♡°°♡°
Cannot overstate how sweet and kind and safe this song is (along with the entire album). In These Silent Days just drips with what family and lived in stability truly feels like.
While writing her memoir, “Broken Horses” (2021), Brandi Marie Carlile recalled a Sunday school lesson from her childhood that taught her to build her life on a strong foundation of faith via the analogy of building a house on rock. When the COVID pandemic forced her indoors, she contemplated what that sturdy foundation looked like to her as an adult with an uncertain future. That’s when she came up with “You And Me On The Rock” (2021). She claimed : “When my life changed, when everything that I identify myself by went away, I was just kind of left with a question of, well, is what I’ve built my life on really a solid foundation? I turned to [my wife] Catherine and [our two daughters], and I wrote that song, and I realized that, yeah, even the most intensely self-identifying things can go away, but what my life is really built on, which is faith and my family, IT’S A ROCK, and it’s solid. And then I just used some of the textures, some of the things that were happening in my day, from me being in my garden and her taking her space and going on her walks. [Catherine’s] got the most beautiful English accent that I just could listen to even when she’s bitching at me. I could listen to it all day. And I just realized that they’re my foundation and that anything can change, and that won’t.” She added : “When the pandemic hit, it was like all of our nightmares just kind of ushered in. Nobody had a backup plan. We’re artists. We don’t have any money saved […]. It was scary because it makes you question whether or not you should’ve had a backup plan. Or what if the thing that makes me me goes away? Am I still me? Those were the questions that were in my mind. It’s like I’m not going to get a round of applause for emptying the dishwasher. But I looked around, and then I saw that what made me me wasn’t ever that.” “You And Me On The Rock” features backing vocals from Jess Wolfe and Holly Laessig of the band Lucius. Brandi believed that the tune needed a feminine touch. She explained : “I just didn’t want men’s voices on it. It happens about once an album. So I did the harmonies. But it just sounded like me over and over again.” Carlile knew she liked the way her voice blended with Wolfe’s and Laessig’s, so she tapped them for the track‼️ 🩵🪨💚
A friend invited me to Brandi's show at the Greek last Saturday and it was the closest thing to spiritual experience I've had since I discovered Beethoven. To have that voice ... and then to sing with such conviction! Instant devotee here, and I'm excited to be on this journey.
Been listening to Brandi since I heard “The Story” on the radio here in Brazil. It’s been 15 years and she’s finally getting the recognition I think she deserves. And this makes me extremely happy. ❤️🇧🇷❤️🇧🇷❤️🇧🇷
Ever heard a song on the radio and been blown away? It had been too long for me. Thank you so much Brandi for reminding me what music can do for the soul.
This song holds a special place in my heart - it came out around the time I was in the hospital giving birth to my son. It was playing on the radio as I was holding him the first night and I sobbed uncontrollably. It felt so appropriate after an insane labor. Love it so so much
Lyrics: They build wooden houses on frozen ponds In the summertime when the water's gone Diagonal lines in their rolled-out lawns And the sage always smells so pretty But nobody cares where the birds have gone When the rain comes down on Babylon The stonemason's phone rings all day long And you gotta get back to the city I build my house up on this rock, baby Every day with you There's nothin' in that town I need After everything we've been through Me out in my garden and you out on your walk Is all the distance this poor girl can take Without listenin' to you talk I don't need their money, baby Just you and me on the rock You and me on the rock I built paper planes when I learned to fly Like a 747 fallin' out of the sky I folded 'em crooked and now I'm wonderin' why I could always end up in the water But nobody's askin' why she lookin' so thin Why she's laughin' too hard, why she drinkin' again A falling star, she's a paper plane And she was goin' down when you caught her I build my house up on this rock, baby Every day with you There's nothin' in that town I need After everything we've been through Me out in my garden and you out on your walk Is all the distance this poor girl can take Without listenin' to you talk I don't need their money, baby Just you and me on the rock It's an earthquake, it's a hard wind It's a record-breakin' tide and it is rollin' in It's a big sea, but it can't touch you and me It's just a water view And what a view I don't need their money, baby Woo I build my house up on this rock, baby Every day with you There's nothin' in that town I need After everything we've been through Me out in my garden and you out on your walk Is all the distance this old girl can take Without listenin' to you talk I don't need their money, baby Just you and me on the rock I don't need their money, baby (I don't need their money, baby) It's you and me on the rock (it's you and me on the rock) You and me on the rock
My wife has been a Bramily member FOREVER and after always hearing Brandi songs in the house and in the car for years I finally joined her at a concert last month in Salt Lake City and I unknowingly knew every word to this amazing song (and several others!). Hearing Brandi explain the story behind this song just warmed my heart and I swear I am a fan for life! Epic musician and amazing performer!
Any old tymer hearing your song on the radio would swear they were hearing a Joni Mitchell creation , the bridge and mandolin and everything you are so talented and can sing falsetto I have cried once already
Love, love, love it!!! The premiere during The Gorge Livestream was so good… can’t wait to listen/watch on repeat. The WORLD needs to see and hear the magic of Brandi… even more so NOW… the radiating love that was built on a rock
I listen to Sirius XM Spectrum channel often, and this song is rightfully in heavy rotation. I am stoked to get tix to see BC and the brothers in Durham, NC in a few months!
To echo Joni Mitchell " sounds like a Hit"...you nail it Brandi! Building your love on solid ground no where to go but up...thank you for the love music!
My girlfriend died on may third. This song keeps me grounded. My nrother and i share songs but mostly blues. This song is so refreshiglng to me. Brandi is so awesome and heals my soul with her music.
Can’t wait to play this with you on Bradford Beach in Milwaukee July 19th, 2023. I’ll also be releasing my first rock album that night and would love to see you at my album release party on that night!
Beautiful! More love & light for our lives from Brandi. I love the nature images, esp birds and garden plants. Can't wait to hear it LIVE in Philly in August. 🥰❤️💞💖
I love how this song and visualizer is such an homage to Joni Mitchell. Brandi loves her so much!! And it’s also just gay as hell. Gives a lot of “Time and Too Much don’t belong together like we do” vibes. ❤️
I didn't realize it until my favorite (now former) DJ said it on the air...this is autobiographical about Brandi and her wife and family. Great song, even better family!!
The fact people always mention all the great singer/ songwriters, I have not seen Janis Joplin mentioned though- And I bring her up because... the subtlety that Brandi has incorporated with clear (even Easter eggs to previous) artists- Let me put it this way- you better hide your heart because, brandI has arrived!
Look out July 8th.🤩 Driving from Kent, Ohio to Nashville, Tennessee to start ANOTHER adventure. It'll take me a few years to get my "concert fill." But I can't think of a better way to fill this heart of mine ...YOUR GIFT to me is Music to my ears. Oh, yah! And this adventure is my gift to me to celebrate 🍾🥂 the beginning of my 8th decade. 🥳🍷🍹🍺🍡🍨🍸🎈🎉🎫🎟🌞🎸🥁🎻🎸📯🎙🎸
This song was my most played for 2022. Saw Brandi during her tour, in SLC with the Indigo Girls; I sang the lyrics for this whole song by heart-she’s such a treasure and this song hold such a dear place in my heart ❤️❤️❤️
They build wooden houses on frozen ponds In the summertime when the water's gone Diagonal lines in their rolled-out lawns And the sage always smells so pretty But nobody cares where the birds have gone When the rain comes down on Babylon The stonemason's phone rings all day long And you gotta get back to the city I build my house up on this rock, baby Every day with you There's nothin' in that town I need After everything we've been through Me out in my garden and you out on your walk Is all the distance this poor girl can take Without listenin' to you talk I don't need their money, baby Just you and me on the rock You and me on the rock I built paper planes when I learned to fly Like a 747 fallin' out of the sky I folded 'em crooked and now I'm wonderin' why I could always end up in the water But nobody's askin' why she lookin' so thin Why she's laughin' too hard, why she drinkin' again A falling star, she's a paper plane And she was goin' down when you caught her I build my house up on this rock, baby Every day with you There's nothin' in that town I need After everything we've been through Me out in my garden and you out on your walk Is all the distance this poor girl can take Without listenin' to you talk I don't need their money, baby Just you and me on the rock It's an earthquake, it's a hard wind It's a record-breakin' tide and it is rollin' in It's a big sea, but it can't touch you and me It's just a water view And what a view I don't need their money, baby Woo I build my house up on this rock, baby Every day with you There's nothin' in that town I need After everything we've been through Me out in my garden and you out on your walk Is all the distance this old girl can take Without listenin' to you talk I don't need their money, baby Just you and me on the rock I don't need their money, baby (I don't need their money, baby) It's you and me on the rock (it's you and me on the rock) You and me on the rock
I heard an old song called 'Gulf Coast Highway' can't remember the singer. And I and struck by the similarity to a quote about building my church upon that rock. Its layers deep.
