Amelia’s upcoming album “The Bells” has been signed to boutique Nashville label Mule Kick Records.

Stay tuned for the schedule of release! 

The album was recorded with Co- Producer and engineer extraordinaire Molly Thomas ( Blueprint Studio ) in Fairhope Alabama, plus additional sessions with Dave Coleman ( Howard’s Apartment ) Marco Giovino ( Dagotown Recorders)  Will Kimbrough (Kimbrough Super Service ) and Ken Rose (MyWarpedHalo) 

 Here’s a list of the Incredible talent on this ambient / rootsy collection : Co-writes with: Sally Barris, Sophie Gault, and Irene Kelly. 

Musical contributions by: Dave Coleman, Will Kimbrough, KP Hawthorn, Kat Jones, Philippe Bronchtein, Ken Rose, Marco Giovino, Paul Niehaus, and Molly Thomas. 

A kickstarter gave Amelia  the initial funds to get the collections going- She is so grateful!

You are going to love “The Bells” It’s an intimate tale of dreamers, and a balm for this troubled time. 

Amelia is in pre-production to make her tenth full length album produced with Molly Thomas - it will be a vibey stripped down affair! Stay tuned.  She continues her Tuesday and Wednesday residency as a House Artist (unless she’s on the road)  at Ashley Mcbryde’s new Redemption Bar on Lower Broadway (5th Floor of Chiefs).

No Depression names “Love I Swore” one of the top ten Americana albums of 2024.

“As Henry Carrigan wrote in ND, the album “illustrates White’s lyrical ingenuity and her ability to create an emotional soundscape in which every listener can find their own struggles or heartaches or joys.” Who am I to disagree?”

Amelia White’s new album “Love I Swore” was included in Jim Hyne’s top 30 roots albums of 2024. Listen through his selections below!

Warren Haynes- A Million Voices Whisper

Randall Bramblett - Paradise Breakdown

Pokey LaFarge - Rhumba Country

Johnny Delaware - Para Llevar

Melissa Carper - Borned in Ya

Amy Speace - American Dream

Kevin Gordon - The In Between

T-Bone Burnett - The Other Side

John Leventhal - Rumble Strip

Kim Richey - Every New Beginning

Amelia White- Love I Swore

Charlie Parr - Little Sun

Richard Thompson - Ship to Shore

Charlie Crockett - $10 Dollar Cowboy

Dolly Parton & Family - Smoky Mountain DNA

Mark Knopfler - One Deep River

Hurray for the Riff Raff - The Past Is Still Alive

Eric Bibb - In the Real World

Shemekia Copeland - Blame It on Eve

Terry Klein - Leave the Light On

Amythyst Kiah - Still + Bright

March to August - Songs Inspired by Witness

Sarah Pierce - Blessed By the West

Cory Morin - Innocent Allies

Joe Ely - Driven to Drive

Michelle Malone - Southern Comfort

Johnny Cash - Songwriter

Gary Nicholson - Common Sense

Anders Osborne - Picasso’s Villa

Steve Dawson - Ghosts

“Over the last couple of decades, East Nashville fixture Amelia White has built a folk-pop catalog that's as unfussy as it is consistent in quality, and full of insinuating hooks, slyly sleepy singing and lean, jangly backing. "Rhythm of the Rain," the title cut of the album she released in January, looks at the current political frenzy from a seasoned, bohemian remove.”

-Jewly Hight NPR MUSIC Aug. 19 2019

Amelia White, “Rhythm of the Rain”
Written in the midst of a European tour that kept her overseas during much of the 2016 U.S. presidential race, “Rhythm of the Rain” — the title track from Amelia White’s newest release — is the songwriter’s attempt to find a moment of zen in an increasingly maddening world. Driving home the song’s central image is the steady pitter-patter of a drum loop, which wouldn’t be out of place on an early Sheryl Crow record.

"Love I Swore illustrates White’s lyrical ingenuity and her ability to create an emotional soundscape in which every listener can find their own struggles or heartaches or joys.”

“Nashville’s Jon Byrd and Amelia White have announced their Tennessee Two-Step tour of venues around England in October 2024.  The dates, which you can find below, start in North London at Camden’s iconic Green Note on the 6th before wending their way around the country and ending up in Brighton on the 27th.”

Find a show near you with the full tour list below Americana UK.

“From optimism and sheer bliss that graced the first few tracks and at least one along the way, the album grows incrementally despairing lyrically, yet the hook-filled and varied musical accompaniment keeps the listener engaged to White’s consistently potent and verbally direct songwriting. Only the best singer-songwriters have such a gift and White has proven again that she’s one of the few.”

Amelia talks to Joe Pug on his “Working Songwriter Podcast” about “LOVE I SWORE” and the mysteries of songwriting.

Singer Songwriter Amelia White Shines A Light On Her Career

Amelia White’s reputation as one of Nashville’s most captivating singer songwriters has increased substantially with each and every new release. And for good reason. Assured and emotive, White’s songs come across with an authority and determination that gets straight to the heart of her sentiment and intents. Her new album, Love I Swore, offers a discourse  revolving around bracing emotional issues — the struggle to maintain core relationships, dealing with loss and loneliness, and, in particular, the difficulties and diversions encountered by road-weary musicians. Taken in tandem Love I Swore is a testament to White’s powers of persuasion — that is, her ability to involve the listener and leave behind an emphatic impression. It’s everything a set of songs should be — personal, provocative and flush with earnest emotion. As a result, White’s made a definitive statement and also the most defining album of her career. The love she swears to is clearly evident throughout.  Learn more about Amelia White online at http://www.ameliawhite.com

Host Lee Zimmerman is a freelance music writer whose articles have appeared in several leading music industry publications. Lee is a former promotions representative for ABC and Capital Records and director of communications for various CBS affiliated television stations. Lee authored "Americana Music - Voices, Visionaries & Pioneers of an Honest Sound," as well as his recent book about legendary producer and engineer Jim Gains "Thirty Years Behind The Glass. Lee also played a key role in securing airplay for Jimmy Buffett’s first major hit, “Margaritaville.” During his time at Capital records Lee also worked with such legends as Paul McCartney, Bob Seger, the Steve Miller Band, and others. You can contact Lee at lezim@bellsouth.net

Podcast producer/cohost Billy Hubbard is a Tennessee based Americana Singer/Songwriter and former Regional Director of A&R for a Grammy winning company, as well as a music and podcast producer. Billy is a signed artist with Spectra Music Group and venue developer, booking manager, and co-founder of the iconic venue "The Station" in East Tennessee. As an artist Billy is endorsed by Godin's Simon & Patrick Guitars and his YouTube channel has over 3 million viewers. Billy's new self titled album was released on Spectra Records October 2023 on iTunes and all major outlets! Learn more about Billy online at http://www.BillyHubbard.com

“An album that sounds as if it has been around forever, LOVE I SWORE showcases White’s flair for easy-to-access melodies alongside excursions into rugged rock and roll. It’s a fine listen from start to finish, and if there is any justice, it is one that should further promote White’s celebrity. “- Declan Culliton - The Lonesome Highway

“Taken in tandem Love I Swore is a testament to White’s powers of persuasion — that is, her ability to involve the listener and leave behind an emphatic impression. It’s everything a set of songs should be — personal, provocative and flush with earnest emotion. As a result, Amelia White has made a definitive statement and also the most defining album of her career. The love she swears to is clearly evident throughout. “

by Lee Zimmerman- Alternate Root  

Trust us—if you ever need a ride anywhere, you want Amelia White behind the wheel. The beloved East Nashville fixture plays an insanely colorful Uber driver in the video for “Get To The Show,” the second single from her upcoming LP, Love I Swore (31 Tigers), due February 23.

“It’s quite literal,” says White about the song, an ornery, straightforward twang-rocker. “I started writing it while stuck in the Columbus, Ohio, airport trying to get to shows in New England. The line delivered by co-writer Gwil Owen—“Stuck on the ground when I oughta be flying”—is one of my favorites. I believe it sums up how so many artists feel.”

White certainly has been there … often. Integral to making East Nashville the indie-music hub it is today, White arrived from Boston in the early 2000s with a literate folk/rock template that’s now the foundation of what most people call Americana. She caught a break in 2019, when her album Rhythm Of The Rain garnered critical praise and gained some traction on the charts. For Love I Swore, White retained acclaimed singer/songwriter Kim Richey as producer. Richey also lends her signature vocals to an album that effortlessly blends rock, blues, pop, folk and country—like any great Americana record should.

For the video, White corralled cantankerous East Nashville upstart Molly Martin for the role of sullen, rebellious passenger. Videographer, songwriter and all-around entertainer Scot Sax directs.

“Making the video with Molly and Scot was such a blast and a total spur-of-the-moment endeavor,” says White. “Scot is good like that—I actually borrowed his coveralls. Molly ran off with the champagne at the end. I actually quit drinking years back, but I still get loaded on tunes.”

We’re proud to premiere the video for “Get To The Show.”

—Hobart Rowland

Amelia White + The Blue Souvenirs, 7 p.m., The 5 Spot:

“The Queen of the East Nashville Underground has seen and heard it all. To experience all that in her unadorned, regal splendor is a real treat.”

“One of the best songwriters at Americana was most certainly Amelia White who played a set at The 5 Spot. The sound was impeccable- it sounded as good as the record- and she had a band that was entirely simpatico with her songs…White is not your run-of-the-mill 3-chirds-and-a-capo songwriter which is refreshing because there’s an awful lot of that going on around here.”- Annie McCue

Read the article here on pages 14 & 15 or browse the full issue of Rhythms Magazine.

Listen to Amelia’s interview with Craig Havighurst of WMOt.

“While the kids were getting on down at TRNSMT a couple of miles down the road, the sensible folk headed to Glasgow’s south side Glad Café for an engaging night of music from Oklahoma and East Nashville as performed by Carter Sampson and Amelia White.”

- Paul Kerr for Americana UK

"Rocket Rearview,” released Sept. 30th ’22, makes Jim Hyne’s  ( Glide/Making A Scene) Top 25 Albums of 2022 world /roots/ Blues along with such greats as Calexico, Shemekia Copeland, and Mary Gauthier.

Hynes has this to say in his review of “Rocket” 

“There’s nothing the least bit pretentious about White. Don’t expect to find any sugar coating in these eleven songs but she finds a balance that ranges from the ominous to the hopeful…she evokes the doomsday Dylan of “Desolation Row” with these lines – “Prophets and Saints have abandoned their posts/They’re down at the bar with the ghosts.” She paints vivid imagery of the Old South as she revisits where she grew up in an attempt to turn a new page in “My Way Home,” a standout track among these several gems such as “Hands Are Like Faces,” co-written with guitarist Johnny Duke. In closing White emerges from the rough edges with the sublime, tender “Beautiful Sun” that invites emotions ranging from strong love to bitter sorrow all in one tightly knit tune.

Through this myriad of Amelia White’s emotions she is gritty, tender, true, and unerringly on target.” 

JIM HYNES ( Making a Scene/ Glide)