The Story is the second album by Americana singer & Songwriter Brandi Carlile, and was released on April 3, 2007.

[1] The Story was produced by T Bone Burnett and recorded over eleven days on two-inch audio tape in The Warehouse Studios in Vancouver, British Columbia.

The album also features the guitarists and songwriters Phil and Tim Hanseroth, drummer Matt Chamberlain, cellist Josh Neumann and backing vocals by the Indigo Girls on "Cannonball".

On 25 April 2008 Carlile performed "The Story" and "Turpentine" on the BBC2 show Later...with Jools Holland.

[6] Due to the ad airing heavily during the 2008 Beijing Olympics,[7] the song increased in downloads.