Amelia White is a well established but largely unknown singer-songwriter who emerged from the same Boston folk scene that produced Mary Gautier and Lori McKenna.
Rainbow Over The East Side is a salute to her newly adopted home in East Nashville but, as the album title references, she also spends a good part of her life on the road.
This semi-nomadic existence informs Leaving In My Blood in which she sings “I'm like a riddle riding in the wind, singing my songs for strangers in every town I'm in.”.
The weary tone on this track and throughout the pledge-funded album suggests that the drip-drip effect of facing an steady stream of coffee houses and bars slowly grinds you down.
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There's some sexual tension in Dangerous Angel and hopeful romanticism in Love Cures but even here a mood of despondency pervades.
The overall impression is that this particular troubadour's life is not a happy one
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