Brandi Carlile’s Memoir “Broken Horses” Shows That Beautiful Things Can Come From Trauma

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Published on April 7, 2021

Six-time GRAMMY award-winner Brandi Carlile, whose last appearance on A Late Show was a musical tribute to her dear friend John Prine, tells Stephen about the trials she faced navigating her faith journey as a young queer woman. Find that story and more in her new memoir, “Broken Horses.” #Colbert #BrokenHorses #BrandiCarlile

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58 comments

  • Sara Wilcker 2 years ago

    I’m still trying to find something beautiful from traumatic experiences with my uncle. People keep saying give it time, but they don’t really know or understand.

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  • laalaa99stl 2 years ago

    “I guess I just process death differently than some folks. Realizing you’re not going to see that person again is always the most difficult part about it. But that feeling settles, and then you are glad you had that person in your life, and then the happiness and the sadness get all swirled up inside you.” — John Prine

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  • laalaa99stl 2 years ago

    “Never wear your necktie while you’re operating a lathe.” — John Prine

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  • Don Shelby 2 years ago

    The First comment

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  • Yuriel Cundangan 2 years ago

    Brandi: Its good to be w/you
    Everyome: Filled of TEASING

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  • Erich Nussbaum 2 years ago

    Wow! Brandi looks so great! I love her!

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  • OnceUponAPiano 2 years ago

    Oh yay, two of my favorite people 🙂

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  • rysteve11 2 years ago

    Hooray for more well deserved exposure to Brandi! I seriously can’t wait to read her book! 😊

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  • slade1ra 2 years ago

    Knock knock.
    Who’s there?
    Coronavirus!!!!

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  • mary jones 2 years ago

    lovely interview, ty ms carlile, mr and mrs colbert, mr batiste and stay human

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  • Ashish Ramteke 2 years ago

    Kind of glad to be among the first 1000 views vewers (720).

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  • Eduarda Medeiros 2 years ago

    Brandi deserves so much all the good things happening for her. She’s a genious made of pure, raw talent.

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  • Heart of Dawn 2 years ago

    I lost 40 years of my life as a trans woman due to repression by the church. I’m hoping something beautiful can come of that too

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  • Space Coyote 2 years ago

    Fun fact: She has accomplished all this stuff, but in high school was diagnosed with ADD.

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  • Dan Collins 2 years ago

    John Prine was a regular at the Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival in San Francisco, where I worked for many years and Brandi performed there from time to time, too. It’s lovely to see her honor him in such a personal way.

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  • R. 2 years ago

    People should stop believing in saints or gods and start believing in each other just a little more. We would be better off for it.

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  • Glam looks 2 years ago

    https://youtu.be/GgxTjzZueXU

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  • Somer Flowers 2 years ago

    I’ll never forget seeing Brandi and the twins in Seattle about 17 years ago. Fell in love with her and haven’t fallen out of love since! She’s such a talent, let alone such a kind soul! So so sooo proud of her! So proud of our Seattle girl! ❤️

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  • Bregan Cool 2 years ago

    Love love love Brandi Carlile❤️

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  • L Uns 2 years ago

    She is such a genuine treasure. IN love with her.

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  • jim Schleich 2 years ago

    Yay for Brandi!! One of America’s top talents! Ok, worlds. But she lives with us.

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  • marie kastler 2 years ago

    Spirituality minus the middle man is a GLORIOUS path! “Nothing between you and the unseen”! Thanks to Brandi for sharing that insight!

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  • Julie Holt 2 years ago

    Whew. This hits so deep. She’s officially my heroine.

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  • BottleAire New! 1/2 Vaxxed! 2 years ago

    Well this is fortuitous. I just woke from a trauma nightmare night. Pardon all this sweat. Body thought it was being burned alive under a ’74 LTD.
    Ah, trauma. Never lets go of my dreams, but it never finishes killing me. Jus do it…

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  • Kit's pics 2 years ago

    That baptism story says all about hating and not loving.

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  • Sarah White 2 years ago

    LOVE HER!

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  • Matthew David 2 years ago

    where can I get that bomber jacket that Brandi Carlile has?

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  • cycoklr 2 years ago

    Takes effort not to fall in love with a wonderful person like Brandi.

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  • Jimi James 2 years ago

    John Prine always gives me goosebumps.
    A modern prophet for sure.
    Thank You Brandi !!!

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  • Yves Paquette 2 years ago

    Wouldn’t it be better to have the “good things” without the trauma?

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  • kassia pencek 2 years ago

    Face timing has magically heralded singers to openly break out in a song serindipodously to bring chills laced with love.

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  • Just Jeanne 2 years ago

    What a beautiful human being, Brandi Carlile ♥♥♥

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  • Erickson Leadership 2 years ago

    “A prophet that makes you laugh.” Wow. Beautiful.

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  • New Message 2 years ago

    The chips and cracks are what make us beautiful, y’ask me.

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  • That 1 Monk 2 years ago

    i knew there was i reason i love her.
    she’s gay. like me. <3

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  • TheRogueStatesman 2 years ago

    Brandi is an American treasure, and one of the best singer/songwriters… ever…

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  • Margaret Peabody 2 years ago

    Stephen I love how you honor these greats in the fight for humanity and bring them to our awareness.

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  • mac979s1 2 years ago

    F that pastor . I don’t think what did was Christian

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  • John B 2 years ago

    I apparently live down the way from her and I never knew!! Crazy.

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  • Stephen Lund 2 years ago

    SMEAR MERCHANT

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  • Carolyn Wilke 2 years ago

    I attended Brandi’s concert at Disney Hall in Los Angeles. What a magical concert it was! And to see Joni Mitchel & Elton John (from my seat) was simply awesome.

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  • Sean Connor 2 years ago

    Brandi. John is and forever shall be exactly as you described. He’s my friend, too and like everyone else I miss him

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  • h t 2 years ago

    Boy Howdy you can really get anyone from Central Casting

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  • Ken C 2 years ago

    She looks really young in this Zoom call. Her baptism story is really something (don’t know why the Baptist preacher didn’t tell her beforehand that he wouldn’t baptize her–that was unnecessarily traumatic to reveal that to Carlile at the last minute)

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  • Daniel Morris 2 years ago

    An exercise in ignorance. The only lesson to learn from Christianity is to get away from all religions. Love is not bound by social forms.

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  • AmyJacqueline G. 2 years ago

    Brandi singing Blue… amazing!!

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  • Johnna Palmer 2 years ago

    Her talent is INSANE. And she’s absolutely right, when we put our faith in people/churches…we get hurt. Cut out that middle man and just be you and the bug guy upstairs. Love you Brandi!

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  • Stephen Suddick 2 years ago

    Truly a tremendous artist. We are so lucky to have her.

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  • Old Skeptic 2 years ago

    … funny, god does not love gays.. hmmm, what’s that about… isn’t his love endless, all encompassing and all inclusive…? or, he is just a lying old fart..

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  • Loretta Nericcio-Bohlman 2 years ago

    Thank you Brandi Carlile. And thank the courageous ones that have come before us to hold up that beacon. 💜❤️🧡💛💚💙

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  • kilgirlie trout 2 years ago

    I would love to see Brandi and Julien Baker perform together

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  • Daniel Carey 2 years ago

    Was the Blue concert recorded? Sounds spiritual

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  • h t 2 years ago

    Does this story start when she was NINE OR SEVENTEEN?

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  • S V 2 years ago

    I will never tire, of these two together.

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  • Ben Baker 2 years ago

    So you see, God made me, and she made me gay, and God doesn’t make junk. So many people traumatized by religion. But religion is a creation of people, not of God. Don’t hold the limitations of religion, and the people who made it, against God. And don’t let religion interfere with your relationship with God.

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  • Tanya Heilman 2 years ago

    I’m straight but a couple years ago, 2018, I had a vision where GOD spoke to me and showed me His love and grace was specifically the same for those straight or gay. I went to a conservative Christian University, and many around me do not agree with this truth that God Himself revealed. It saddens me, the misjudgment, and the slippery slope of unrighteous pious prejudice and self righteous comparison many Christians slide down. If I could just say, by proxy to you, Brandi, I am so sorry for how we as a church community have treated you and all others with whom we are less familiar with, less educated about, rejecting and misjudging you.

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