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Carlile on the road to becoming a star.

Publication: The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR)
Publication Date: 31-AUG-07 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Carlile on the road to becoming a star.(Entertainment)(She's got the voice, a loyal following and a patient record label)

Article Excerpt
Byline: Serena Markstrom The Register-Guard

Sitting next to her dog outside her Seattle home doing the first of the day's many interviews, Brandi Carlile remembered her childhood.

"I think I was a really strange kid," she said. "I can't believe I made it through being that weird in a small town so unscathed. I was a really weird little songwriter kid, totally obsessed with Elton John and Queen."

Among her youthful odd behavior: dressing like a cowboy and constantly drawing horses and unicorns on things. In fact, she said she was looking down at her Converse Chuck Taylor sneaker and noted a recent example of her work.

"I drew horses on everything, and I still do, all the time. Horses and unicorns," she said. "When 'Napoleon Dynamite' came out, it was not funny to me because that was me.

`I remember my lavender moon boots and just the awkwardness of never knowing what to say."

She laughed, recalling the scene early in the...

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