2022-02-10
20 分钟You're listening to Song Exploder,
where musicians take apart their songs and piece by piece tell the story of how they were made.
I'm Rishikesh Hirway.
Did you do a lot of rehearsal pre-production of this song before you started actually recording it for real?
No, I'm very anti-rehearsal prior to recording.
Why's that?
Well, because I'm superstitious.
I believe that every song has a moment.
And it's a really fragile moment where you write a song and you know it, but you don't have it yet.
Like it's still a risk.
It could still derail.
Anything could still happen.
And it's really the difference between take one and take three,
where you go past that moment and there's none of that anything could happen tension anymore.
And you're past the take that you should have kept.
So if that happens to you at rehearsal, the song... loses its rock and roll, you know?
And I think rock and roll is a risk instead of a genre.
My name is Brandi Carlile.
Brandi Carlile is a singer and songwriter from Washington State.
She's released seven albums and won six Grammys.