Richmond, VA-based singer/songwriter Sarah White has released her new single, “Sweetheart” featuring guest vocals from Dave Matthews. The new song follows Sarah’s recently released track, “Carry My Over” and comes from her upcoming album, High Flyer, out August 3rd. Listen to the song now below!
High Flyer is testimony to varied influences in White’s life and in music. A wandering soul who didn’t pursue a music career so much as create a solid body of work between day jobs, High Flyer marks a new phase for White – one of an artist ready to break through to a national audience. Recorded with producer Stewart Myers (Lifehouse, Jason Mraz, Liz Phair) at Montrose Studio in Richmond, VA and funded by a fan-supported Kickstarter campaign, the album features eleven of White’s best songs, performed with a slew of seasoned players including Daniel Clarke (k.d. lang, Ryan Adams) on piano and keys, Charles Arthur (Slaid Cleaves) on guitars, and Stewart Myers (Agents of Good Roots) on bass. As a whole, the album offers the listener an intimate glimpse into White’s heart through smart, honest songs that reflect both hopefulness and heartbreak, cut sharp through glittering wit.
White grew up on a Christmas tree farm in West Virginia with hippie parents who exposed her to a wide world of music via an extensive record collection featuring early old time, bluegrass, country, and 60s folk psychedelic and 70s rock music; ubiquitous music festivals, local music jams, and a songwriting father. Her two albums on the early Jagjaguwar label post-University speak to a wide range of influences and a tendency for experiential learning. Deemed back then “a diamond in the rough,” White says that High Flyer is the gem she’s been working toward all these years. As she says, “This one feels like the one I’ve always wanted to make.”
High Flyer track listing:
1. Carry Me Over
2. Apple in B Major
3. Love Don’t Bother Me
4. All The Reasons
5. Sweetheart (feat. Dave Matthews)
6. Sarah Arizona
7. Blue Skies, Exciting Days
8. Little Bird
9. I Follow Hard
10. White Light
11. Already Down