Album · Brandi Carlile
The Story by Brandi Carlile
The Story is an album by Brandi Carlile, released in 2007. 1 song from it has charted on rock radio countdowns, with 25 countdown appearances in total. The biggest is “The Story”, on 25 lists and voted number one once.
The Story, Brandi Carlile's second album, came out on Columbia on April 3, 2007, and T Bone Burnett made it the old-fashioned way: eleven days at the Warehouse Studios in Vancouver, everything rolling onto two-inch tape. You can hear the room in it. Carlile sings like she's trying to shake the rafters loose, guitarist-songwriters Phil and Tim Hanseroth keep it close and raw, Matt Chamberlain drums and Josh Neumann's cello adds a dark grain. The Indigo Girls turn up to sing on "Cannonball".
The title track is the one that got her heard far and wide, her voice cracking open at the peak of the chorus like a dam giving way. Later the whole album was re-recorded as Cover Stories, with Dolly Parton, Pearl Jam and Adele among the guests, to raise money for War Child.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs from The Story on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Story | 25 | #1 | 1 | 2007–2026 |
Only songs that appear on at least one countdown are listed. Release data from MusicBrainz.