Syria "My dream is that Syria will be beautiful again." The conflict in Syria is old news now. But there’s a human story underneath each of these airstrikes and at the end of each sniper’s barrel. Eleven year old Maryam’s is just one of them.

  "We're promoting a dialogue between people from the North, South and the U.K., and we're asking if we can depoliticize children and talk about compassion. That's what I hope [the project] accomplishes." #CoverStories

  “If there is one thing I want to achieve with this record – of course I want it to achieve fundraising and awareness – but I really want the diversity of voices on this album to create a scenario where we stop politicizing babies and children and talking about them like they are commodities instead of human beings who we have a higher calling to protect.” - Brandi Carlile

  You might wonder how a critically acclaimed but relatively unknown singer-songwriter recruited Adele, Pearl Jam and Dolly Parton to cover her songs for a benefit album. But the biggest get on Brandi Carlile’s “Cover Stories,” made up of new renditions of the material on her 2007 album, “The Story,” comes from outside the music world: Barack Obama.

  Not since Aaron Dessner joined forces with The Red Hot Organization and released Dark Was The Night, in 2009, has a charity record been as relevant and crafted as Brandi Carlile’s latest project, Cover Stories.

Adele, Dolly and more lend voices to Brandi Carlile’s latest project..

#CoverStories is just over a week away from being released, but you can get a sneak peak here, thanks to NPR Music. Hear artists like Dolly Parton, Adele, The Avett Brothers, and more cover songs from The Story and make music mean more for War Child UK!    

  Brandi Carlile celebrates 10 Years of The Story, with the making of Cover Stories An Album to Benefit War Child UK. 

  Pearl Jam turned Brandi Carlile's slow-burning country tune "Again Today" into a blistering punk track for the upcoming tribute album, Cover Stories: Brandi Carlile Celebrates 10 Years of the Story – An Album to Benefit War Child. The LP arrives May 5th via Legacy Recordings.