Lari White
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Green Eyed Soul (U.S. Release)
Produced by: Lari WhiteRecorded & Mixed by: Eric Legg @ The Holler and
The Mixbox, Nashville, TN
Additional Engineering: Jason Lehning, Jeff Thomas, Dan Rudin, Lari White
Second Engineers: Marc Niemic, Kenny Fairris
Production Assistants: Roger Osborne And Trayce Legg
Publicity: Traci Harper @ Harper Public Relations
Booking: William Morris Agency
Art Direction and Design: Torne White @ Burn
Photography: Alan Clarke @ Thunder Image
Hair & Makeup: Debra Wingo
The Band: Michael Rhodes on Bass, Dan Needham on Drums, Tim Akers on Keys, Jerry Mcpherson on Guitars, Jim Horn on Saxophones and Flute, Mike Haynes on Trumpet and Flugel Horn, Barry Green on Trombone, Connie Ellisor on Strings
Lari on Acid
Veritas Is: Frederick L. Vaughn –Leader, Sherrie Kibble, Dana Dixon, Elissa N. Oats, Dion Jackson, Kimberly Mont, Nirva Dorsaint, Shandra Penix.
©2001, 2004 Skinny White Girl Records
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All Music Guide
Highly recommended.
Lari White's first American album of the new millennium (her last, Stepping Stone, was issued in 1998) was released in the United Kingdom in June of 2004 on the Mesmerizing label. Green Eyed Soul, produced by White, comes to us courtesy of her own Skinny White Girl label. Having established herself in the '90s as a pop-country artist, this set is going to be a change-up for some as the title offers a sleek peek toward what she's going for. White's aim is slick, chart-ready R&B, and nu-soul. It's also a given with White's voice, and that this disc was made in Nash Vegas, her roots sound cannot be covered entirely. But what's most startling is her use of loops and even breaks alongside her studio band. Her love of Southern soul and Motown is everywhere evident, but with the use of technology alongside horns and strings -- check "Right Here Right Now" -- the effect is startling. There are trip-hop beats, turntables, and samplers flitting through the mix and creating rhythms. The country-R&B of "Eden Before the Fall" is driven by slow, electric slide guitar, but ambient sounds and shimmering backdrop electronics color and texture the tune displacing its center. "Because I'm a Woman" is a tight little groover that's part slow-funk anthem, part country song, and part soul rave-up, with a killer refrain. The strutting B-sharp on "High," is pure silk and groove (think Al Green or Ron Isley) albeit it in a thoroughly modern context. White's voice shines throughout; her pitch, phrasing, and emotional involvement in her songs is not only credible but worth celebrating. Make no mistake, this is a very smooth, slick record; but its depth cannot be denied and as a pop record, one of the majors could have scored big with it.
~Thom Jurek, All Music Guide -
Amazon.com Review
Green Eyed Soul marks a stark departure from Lari's previous work. As far away from country as it is close to, literally, soul, Lari, like her contemporary Shelby Lynne, doesn't shy away from digging beneath the placid surface into the dark underbelly of life within the insular communities of the deep South. Drawing heavily on her formative influences, Lari wrote and produced the album herself; she blends classic soul/R&B sensibilities with modern technology to tackle subjects such as love and the loss of innocence, conjuring up heady images of languorous, sultry Southern nights. In setting out to make music with no higher ambition than to please herself, Green Eyed Soul is an album whose hybrid of experience, influences and emotions cuts across accepted genres and speaks directly to the heart.
http://www.amazon.com/Green-Eyed-Soul-Lari-White/dp/B0009ZE9TY -
Times UK Review: Great White Hope
Great White hope
To make a great soul album requires more than just a voice. It demands emotions actually lived: to have experienced pain and longing, love and lust, triumph and despair. Which is why the finest soul album this year comes not from Devon’s teen prodigy Joss Stone, but from Lari White, a 38-year-old mother of two, failed country singer and occasional actress.
...Green Eyed Soul is a home-made album. White wrote or co-wrote all the songs, cajoled her favourite musicians into playing, produced it at her home studio just outside Nashville and started her own label, Skinny White Girl Records. Radio 2 is already behind her first single, Nothing But Love.
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