CANADIAN SINGER-SONGWRITER SHARES NEW SINGLE + VIDEO THE WAY I OUGHTA GO

TRACK PRODUCED BY JONATHAN WILSON
AND FEATURES BUCK MEEK ON GUITAR

ON TOUR THROUGH AUGUST AND SEPTEMBER

TORONTO, ON – August 4, 2022 – Ahead of a string of August and September tour dates, Calgary-born singer-songwriter/multi-instrumentalist, Bella White, has released her new single The Way I Oughta Go.  Produced by Jonathan Wilson and featuring Buck Meek on guitar, the song exemplifies Bella’s ability to put her own stamp on traditional country and bluegrass tones, all the while showcasing her captivating and stunning voice. Listen to The Way I Oughta Go here and watch the video here.

Bella shares, “The Way I Oughta Go is a song about not being sure where you should land, when you should take off, or even knowing how. Writing while staring at the ceiling of my Nashville bedroom amidst the late summer heat, I felt stifled. I wrote a song about love and the lack thereof that I was experiencing -- where to find it, or if I even believed that it was out there after one profound disappointment on top of another. It’s a song about self, and moving around until you find your place in the world.” 

This Saturday (August 6), Bella will kick off a short U.S. tour with a slot at this year’s Pickathon Festival in Happy Valley, OR.  She plays there again the following day and then heads to the East Coast for a run of dates that commence August 18 in Washington, DC.  All shows are listed below with more to be announced soon.  

UPCOMING TOUR DATES:
August 6 - Pickathon Music Festival - Happy Valley, OR
August 7 - Pickathon Music Festival - Happy Valley, OR
August 18 - Hill Country BBQ - Washington, DC
August 19 - Rockwood Music Hall - New York, NY
August 20 - The Music Hall - Portsmouth, NH
August 21 - Green Mountain Bluegrass & Roots - Manchester, VT
September 1 - Terminal West - Atlanta, GA
September 2 - Music Farm, Charleston, SC
September 3 - Earl Scruggs Music Festival - Mill Spring, NC
September 4 - Cat’s Cradle - Carrboro, NC
September 16 - Americana Festival / Station Inn - Nashville, TN

DOWNLOAD – single artwork | DOWNLOAD – hi-res photo

ABOUT BELLA WHITE
Bella White made her mark on the scene with the release of her debut album, Just Like Leaving. The LP caught the attention of Rounder Records, which signed her last year.  While traditional bluegrass originated in Appalachia, the genre has surely found a safe and loving Canadian home via her songwriting.  The 22-year-old singer/songwriter and instrumentalist shys away from modern and fussy arrangements, and instead brings a traditional style of music into the contemporary moment by personalizing it to her own experiences.  Bella has shown herself to be a star student of the bluegrass genre, with something new to bring to the table.  Her ability to translate modern experience to an old sound is seamless and compelling, and permeates the boundaries of a regional genre with authentic singing and songwriting.

“Sublime Appalachian heartbreak.” – Rolling Stone

“White possesses an uncanny ability to capture the delicate nuances of heartache that’s often only mastered by veterans of the trade.” – Holler

“Just Like Leaving establishes White as a defining voice in the modern lineage of an heirloom musical tradition.” – American Songwriter

“On Just Like Leaving, we can feel White’s exquisite pain, her brimful sorrow, her tenacious joy in her lonesome, affecting vocals—which remind us, by turns, of Kitty Wells, Rhonda Vincent, and Donna Ulisse…White’s ingenious and playful lyrics fold into musical settings that capture the ragged ways we fall in and out of love.” – Folk Alley

“beautiful and hauntingly penned songs and absolute control of her own and each song’s voice and narrative…There is just such a timeless quality to the subtle play between pain and optimism in White’s voice.” – Red Line Roots

“Shimmering with emotional purity, Bella White’s vocals invite us into her heart as she shares her miseries and her joys; even more, her resoundingly clear tone resonates with a vulnerability so that we feel as if she’s singing every song directly to us.” – Folk Alley

“Just Like Leaving is simultaneously old and new, retrospective and prescient, and everything in between. It’s the past, present and future, in other words, but not just of and for bluegrass, but of and for American music writ large.” – Old Grey Cat

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