Among Other Things: Bella White’s Second Album Explores Fresh Sounds in Bluegrass and Folk

Second album by the Canadian Bella White, after her excellent debut Just like Leaving. She produces Jonathan Wilson, with whom she had already collaborated on a few singles. Among Other Things it also features the guitar of Buck Meek, from Big Thief; singer-songwriter Erin Rae, multi-instrumentalist Drew Erickson and Patrick M’Gonigle who regularly collaborates with White in his band. At twenty-two years old, White throws himself fully into bluegrass, giving it a fresh sound. Although, her songs came to her during the pandemic and she was forced to compose solo, without her usual band, which has moved her sound away from bluegrass a bit and has brought her closer to folk. Songs like the excellent “Rhododendron” are good proof of this. She less banjo and more pedal-steel, in fact, she only appears in one song. To highlight that “Marilyn”, a conversation that she heard between two men criticizing a woman who had just given birth to her and who forced her to write the song in a rage. A gem.

ANABEL VELEZ

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