Carrie Rachel Brownstein (born September 27, 1974), is an American musician and blogger for NPR Music. She is best known for being a guitarist and vocalist in the now-defunct Portland, Oregon-based band Sleater-Kinney. In 2006 she earned a spot on Rolling Stone readers list of the 25 "Most Underrated Guitarists of All-Time" as the highest-rated woman.
Brownstein grew up in an upper middle-class home in Redmond, Washington, and attended the The Ov...
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Carrie Rachel Brownstein (born September 27, 1974), is an American musician and blogger for NPR Music. She is best known for being a guitarist and vocalist in the now-defunct Portland, Oregon-based band Sleater-Kinney. In 2006 she earned a spot on Rolling Stone readers list of the 25 "Most Underrated Guitarists of All-Time" as the highest-rated woman.
Brownstein grew up in an upper middle-class home in Redmond, Washington, and attended the The Overlake School. She began playing guitar at 15, and received lessons from future Sunny Day Real Estate/The Fire Theft frontman Jeremy Enigk. She later said "He lived in the neighborhood next to mine, so I would just walk my guitar over to his house. He showed me a couple of open chords and I just took it from there. I'd gone through so many phases as a kid with my interests that my parents put their foot down with guitar. So [the instrument] ended up being the first thing that I had to save up my own money for — kind of like Bryan Adams buying...
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