Sarah White | |
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 Nelsonville Music Festival May 17, 2008 | |
| Background information | |
| Born | Warrenton, Virginia, U.S. |
| Genres | Folk,alt-country |
| Occupation(s) | Singer-songwriter, musician |
| Instrument(s) | Guitar, vocals |
| Years active | 1996–present |
| Labels | Jagjaguwar |
| Website | sarah-white |
Sarah White is a singer-songwriter based inRichmond, Virginia, whose music can be roughly characterized asfolk oralt-country.
Sarah White was born inWarrenton, Virginia, and relocated as a child toMonroe County, West Virginia. When she returned to Virginia she became involved with the growing music community inCharlottesville — a town where she "grew up" and lived in "off and on for years."[1] There she played in several bands towards the end of the 90's (White Trash Cookin', Pat Nixon, Miracle Penny).
Record labelJagjaguwar, originally based out of Charlottesville before moving to Indiana to merge withSecretly Canadian, released her first solo album in 1997 – a collection of lo-fi four-track recordings made over a 3-year period – dubbedAll My Skies Are Blue.
In 2000, she released her second album, entitledBluebird, also on Jagjaguwar. The record garnered her a wide range of positive reviews and comparisons to artists likeCat Power andEdith Frost. Later that year she recorded and self-releasedPickin' Strummin' And Singin' ... The Versatile Sarah White which was a collection of early country standards and traditional songs.
After remaining fairly quiet for the next several years, White returned with a new band, Sarah White & the Pearls, in 2004 with the self-releasedYou're It EP which focused even further on melodic writing and incorporated the more traditional folk and country song structures. In 2006 she completed her next full-length album with The Pearls,White Light, which was released by Antenna Farm Records. The Richmond Times-Dispatch called her third full-length album "an unassailable collection of absolutely unforgettable songs, the product of White's talent and tenacity."[2]
Of the title track, White says:[2]
. . 'White Light' is a love-lost song, and a laundry list of distractions to stave off emptiness: television, noise, going out, staying busy, never stopping. Of course, these things never really work.
White will release her first full-length album in over 10 years on August 3, 2018.High Flyer Recorded at Montrose Studio in Richmond, Virginia, features a dozen of White's "best songs" backed by Daniel Clarke (K.d. lang,Ryan Adams) on piano and keyboard, and Charles Arthur (Slaid Cleaves) on guitars – with vocals by Carl Anderson and Michael York of Sleepwalkers.Dave Matthews sings with White on "Sweetheart".[3] Stewart Myers, who produced the album,[1] also provided bass.
White also performs with Sían Richards in the Acorn Sisters.
Sarah White's songSweetheart won best song inMountain Stage's annual Newsong Festival in 2007.
