![]() Someone who I’ve been deeply influenced by over the past two years is Emmylou Harris. As you developed your style, did you consciously gravitate toward any other artists? I can tell you’ve immersed yourself in those traditions, from Patsy Cline onward, and you’ve mentioned Joni Mitchell and John Prine as early influences. Heartbreak is something everybody can relate to, for better or worse, and it’s such a big part of the country tradition. I would write poetry and write about my feelings before that, but in my early teenage years, I took to songwriting as a means for expressing myself - and grieving, honestly, like working through the stages of grieving something. I think I was 14 or 15 when I started properly writing songs that felt like songs. I’ve always had my notebooks and loved to process my feelings through writing - not just songs, but, like, stream-of-consciousness brain dumping. ![]() I’ve always been a lover ever since I was a little girl I get attached to things so I feel it all quite big.ĭid you write about what you were going through then, or did that come later? Of course, since then, I’ve had my own heart broken a couple of times. Watching their marriage fall apart was a really lived experience of witnessing heartbreak, but also experiencing my own heartbreak of watching the family structure crumble. But the first time I experienced real, painful heartbreak was when my parents got divorced. So that was my first, like, superficial heartbreak. When I was in grade four, I had a really big crush on a boy. How old were you when you first experienced it? By then, she’d already learned a little something about heartache.īGS: It seems like heartbreak is a requirement for great songwriting. She honed guitar and banjo skills while attending bluegrass festivals, camps and jams, and made her solo stage debut at 12. White was raised in Calgary, Alberta, but her Virginia-born father, who grew up playing bluegrass, immersed her in the genre - even forming a band with the father of her best friend from daycare when the kids were barely toddlers. They’re delivered in a keening, vibrato-free vocal style stamped with the DNA of Appalachia and the country and bluegrass icons it spawned, as well as a long line of folk and feminist heroes. ![]() ![]() White’s drawing so much attention because she examines matters of the heart with fearless candor, nakedly exposing her insecurities and foibles in lyrics that are intensely personal, yet capable of resonating with anyone who’s ever endured similar experiences. and Netherlands in June, she’ll return to North America just in time to celebrate her 23rd birthday before playing the Newport Folk Festival. Since independently releasing her debut album, Just Like Leaving, in 2020 (just as she turned 20), the bluegrass-steeped country-folk artist got signed by Rounder Records, was touted among the best new acts at Americanafest 2022, performed at Willie Nelson’s 2023 Luck Reunion and, on April 25, made her Grand Ole Opry debut (“a forever dream for a little girl who loves country music”) - just days after the release of her second album, Among Other Things. For most music lovers, the thrill of discovering a brilliant young talent grows even bigger when that artist’s career starts to take off - which means fans of Canadian singer-songwriter Bella White must be feeling quite euphoric right now. ![]()
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