Brandi Carlile does something with enunciation that could sound melodramatic or distracting if her compositions weren't so wandering and nuanced and her voice wasn't so certain (if you couldn't hear her voice, you could still read its certainty on her face). "I Will," taken from her third (and Rick Rubin-produced) album Give Up The Ghost, has a typical structure, but in this performance, she carves out vowels and flirts with the recorded version, giving the live version more bounce, emotion and exaggeration, perhaps making up for the slight lack of warmth and layering that comes with an LP.
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