REVIEW: Eden White, This Is The Way... (Delirium/Touchwood)
- Linda Scott
If you haven't heard of Eden White, we can almost guarantee that you will. Ms. White is an extremely talented artist whose most recent achievement was winning the 1998 Lilith Fair Acoustic Talent Search. This win brought her the opportunity to play for 10,000 people and share the stage with Sarah McLaughlin. Prior to this she was awarded a coveted performance slot in the Songwriter's Hall of Fame Songwriter Showcase. Call her a female Billy Joel, and you won't be far off the mark. Ms. White's strong suits are her songwriting and her piano abilities.
This Is The Way... was originally just on the artist's Delirium label. Now she is with Touchstone also, and she is thrilled to be signed to a label. If you want to know a bit more about her, go to Ms. White's website at http://www.edenwhite.com. ; you'll get a picture of an intelligent woman trying to make it in the music business. No surprise, then, that she was in pre-med until she dropped out to lay her future on the line in the music business.
This Is The Way... is reminiscent of its influences; Billy Joel, Nancy Marchand, Barbara Streisand. Clear vocals sounding sweet, sexy, longing, whatever fits. Ms. White did all the vocals, piano, some acoustic guitar, and flute, on the album. Each song is very personal to her, but the tracks cause universal smiles and pain. Listen to just the first two tracks, and you feel the pain of love and death. These two are "Song Unsung" and "This Is The Way", both have very strong melodies and lyrics.
If you like pop sung by a woman whose lyrics and melodies blend beautifully, then get This Is The Way.... Eden White is now playing bookstores and small clubs, but in the future she might share the stage with the Piano Man himself. We're going to hear from her.
