Just Like Leaving Bella White

• 1 Gutted 04:06
• 2 Not To Blame 02:55
• 3 Do You Think About Me At All 03:16
• 4 Just Like Leaving 03:26
• 5 The Hand Of Your Raising 02:40
• 6 Just Unwanted 03:13
• 7 Broke (When I Realized) 03:38
• 8 All I Gave To You 03:28
• 9 Now She Knows What It Feels Like 02:37
• Total Runtime 29:19

Info zu Just Like Leaving

Born in Alberta but with Blue Ridge roots, White was reared on a bluegrass diet of Bill Monroe and Doc Watson before heading off to Boston and immersing herself in the local acoustic scene. Now, just twenty and based in Nashville, she makes her debut with Just Like Leaving, an impressive nine-track set, opening with the uptempo picked ‘Gutted’, a song about wishing you weren’t in whatever situation you find yourself stuck in (“So I took to drinking with the hopes of getting lost/For when you’re always losing it’s hard to see your wins/then I start using and I’m numb again”) but realising they call it baggage because you carry it with you.

"As debut albums go, it’s hard to fault ‘Just Like Leaving’ as a first release. Maybe it would benefit from a little more variation in tempo and a bit more variety in song subjects, but both of those will come with time. Bella White is an artist with a big future ahead of her and you can only see her getting better in all respects – there’s a serious depth of talent here. Best tracks on the album? Well, it’s always subjective but I really like the title track, along with the track that Jonathan previously previewed ‘Broke (When I Realised)’ and album closer, ‘Now She Knows What it Feels Like’, with its bruised positivity and new resolve for the future; “but now her longing days are over you didn’t think she would see this through. /And now she can hardly remember what it feels like to love you”, along with its simple guitar accompaniment and great harmony vocals. But the other tracks are all good too!" (Rick Bayles, americana-uk.com)

Bella White

Bella White
A truly original new voice in songwriting, Bella White creates an undeniable magic by mining the rare duality at the heart of her artistry. Although she hails from the Canadian city of Calgary, the 22-year-old singer/multi-instrumentalist grew up on the classic country and old-time music she first discovered thanks to her father, a Virginia native who played in bluegrass bands all throughout her childhood. On her debut album Just Like Leaving, White balances her old-soul musicality with a lyrical perspective that’s entirely of-the-moment, embracing an intense self-awareness as she documents her coming-of-age in real-time. “I’m still quite young, but I was very young when I wrote this album,” says the Victoria, BC-based artist. “All of these songs came from processing my feelings right as I was experiencing certain things for the first time in my life.”

Produced by Patrick M’Gonigle of The Lonely Heartstring Band and mixed by Grammy Award-winning engineer Dave Sinko, Just Like Leaving bears a powerful authenticity that prompted Rolling Stone to praise White’s songwriting as “sublime Appalachian heartbreak.” In sculpting the album’s sparse but lushly detailed sound, White worked with a lineup of musicians she encountered through years of making the rounds at roots-music festivals, including Reed Stutz (mandolin, vocals), Julian Pinelli (fiddle, vocals), and Robert Alan Mackie (bass). “I met everyone by jamming together, which felt perfect for this album—I really wanted it to sound like friends making music,” says White, who plays guitar on Just Like Leaving. “The whole process felt very collective and collaborative, and everyone’s creative choices ended up shining through.”

Currently writing for her second album, White has already begun to see the impact of her debut’s exacting self-reflection. “Just Like Leaving feels like a storybook of the things I went through when I was 18 and 19—each song is about a very specific feeling from my relationships during that time,” she says. “I’ve had a lot of younger people tell me that they relate to the experience of learning about yourself through someone else, and I’ve also had older folks tell me how it reminds them of when they were younger. I used to fear sometimes that I might run out of things to say in my songs, but I don’t feel that way after seeing how this album has affected people. It’s reminded me that there will always be a creative source for me to tap into.”

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