American songwriter Amelia White recently released album Rhythm Of The Rain, written while touring the UK and viewing the bitterly divisive election season back home via the BBC; and this summer returns to the UK to perform these songs live (see dates below). Watch her new video for Free Advice on which she added:
I could write a short story for everyone who’s come up after a show and told me what I could Improve upon. It usually boils down to “smile more and show some damn cleavage”
I guess in some ways “Free Advice” is my own “Me Too” moment. I notice a lot of women in the audience perk up their ears and get a big shit eating grin whenever I play it.
Cheers to all gals who “just wanna rock”- this one’s for YOU.
Rhythm Of The Rain, co-written with Grammy Award winner Ben Glover, was initially released as a nine-song album late in 2017 in the UK as an offering to that country for loving her songs and providing a kind of shelter from the tumult back home. That ocean of separation and her loneliness gave her the necessary distance to paint her picture of the shake-up. White uses observations images and melody to tell her stories. Music City Roots host and journalist Craig Havighurst wrote: “her songs each have some fascinating crystalline shape that invites close attention and touch.”
What separates Amelia White from most other songwriters in the Americana genre is her detail. Like a short story writer steeped in the gothic humidity of the backroads, White illuminates the ordinary, the magic in the process of creating. She is a rock and roll soothsayer, an East Nashville Cassandra with an Americana gospel shout thicker than the paper-thin illusion of fame and money.
Amelia White UK Tour Dates
JUL 10 TUE – Green Note, London
JUL 11 WED – The Musician, Leicester
JUL 13 FRI – Great Easton Village Hall, Market Harborough
JUL 16 MON – The Bristol Fringe, Bristol
JUL 19 THU – Marshall Rooms, Stroud
JUL 24 TUE – Greystones, Sheffield
JUL 25 WED – Kitchen Garden Cafe, Birmingham
JUL 26 THU – House Show presented by Simon Beards, London
JUL 28 SAT – Halfway to 75 festival, Oxford
For full tour details with ticket links and US dates visit: http://www.ameliawhite.com/tour/