Brandi Carlile chats to I Like Music

However she clearly lusted after the lead role: "I mean, I find myself on stage not knowing I'm doing it, moving like Elvis and trying to stop myself. I'm a huge Elvis fan."

More significantly, it was in her late teens when she found true inspiration.

"I learned guitar sort of on my own when I started going to Lilith Fair and seeing all those girls with the guitars. I thought it was the coolest thing and it was like a sexy instrument. I was playing keyboard at the time. I used to go there and camp and everybody would sit around in a circle and play guitar and I realised that I needed to be able to bring an instrument with me. I couldn't just take a piano everywhere with me so I learned to play guitar".

The Story is actually the band's second album and is a selection of songs written over a six year span. She explains:

"When we made our first record we didn't have a record deal, so when Columbia signed us we already had a record that we'd made in my living room, in our practice place and in a couple of small studios around town. We just borrowed money from our grandmas and put this record together and when Columbia signed us they bought that record and put it out. When we made our record we were just basically trying to make something to sell at shows. We needed to make money and so we put all these sort of B sides together and decided to save our really good songs until the right time…So we saved songs like Turpentine, The Story, Wasted, Until I Die for when we got our record deal that we knew we were going to get. We hoped".
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