Simple Truths

Track Listings

1. Lemon Trees
2. Innocent
3. I Am Not Your Saint
4. I Can't Find You
5. Swallowed Whole
6. Melt Me Down
7. Firefly's Light
8. Justice
9. By the River
10. Hold Me
11. The Simple Truth

Editorial Reviews
About the Artist
"As a songwriter I feel the need to surrender to the song," says singer/ songwriter Yasmine White. "For me, the hardest part of creating is giving up the fear and being honest to the song and myself. But that's also the best part." She believes that the beauty in a song lies in its honesty and that our closest connections come from vulnerability.

Yasmine recently moved to Chapel Hill, NC from Los Angeles, has begun to play at area clubs, and she was a finalist in the 2001 North Carolina Songwriter's Contest. She has recently completed her new CD, Simple Truths. Simple Truths features eleven of her original songs, sung in her unique, emotionally charged voice.

For Yasmine, songwriting is a journey and an exploration into the soul, a way to try to figure out the world around her. "When I'm in the middle of a song I've written and the moment is all that exists and I'm riding it without any controls and all of a sudden it's just the soul of the song that exists...there is no fear at that moment only ecstasy...that's where I love to live." When she was a kid growing up in the suburbs of Washington, D.C., she would walk home from school picking up leaves or kicking stones and singing. Sometimes she would just go over songs she'd learned and sometimes she would make up her own. That childhood fascination stayed with her as she earned her Bachelor of Arts degree in Music from the University of Maryland. At Maryland, she was exposed to an eclectic mix of musical styles, studying counterpoint, gospel choir, African drumming and beginning saxophone.

Yasmine played in bands and did a lot of solo work in New York in clubs such as the Speakeasy and 8BC as well as more recently in Los Angeles playing at the Roxy and Coconut Teaszer

"Family history is intense. So many of my songs touch on my past, growing up... my family. We all seem to walk around like a map ...we take our histories with us and it becomes part of the material we use to relate to the world -- what we give to the world and take from it. Each song that I write has elements of my history and I think I'm the better for it. But, it's also painful. Everyone brings things from their past that they need to work through and understand and forgive. I think that's where compassion is born. I feel very lucky that I have music to give me a way to work through these things and I get a gift at the end... I get a song."

Album Description
"As a songwriter, Yasmine White wears her heart on her sleeve ... and her quickly mind and her ever-lovin' soul, as well. Right out there. She makes no secret of it: Life, hers and ours, is a ride that bumps along and bruises us, a thing that bears down on us like the boogie man and, often enough, leaves us shaken and just wondering. Hearing her songs, we know she knows, herself and ourselves.

But there's more: the quiet comfort of fingertips, the eventual recognitions of love, the laughable ironies ... that, too, is the life we carry about. There's no easy sentiment here, though. The wisdom, the lyric-words are hard-won. And sometimes there's no winning to make a song of, only a loss, or a consternation. But, whether she's taking us up or down, Yasmine's care for truthful language is evident in every one of her songs. As a musician, Yas gives her voice the smoothest of pipes to run in, out to the wide edge of her range without a hint of strain. Whether in company with her spare, precise and always appropriate guitar work (and, on several numbers, with skillful violin and bass accompaniment, as well) or a cappella, she is at ease in her voice, and a sweet clarity is the result. As well, the tunes she's written are fresh and memorable. I'd bet that every song she sings would get votes as someone's favorite."

Simple Truths, Music, Yasmine White, 2nd place winner in the Folk category of the 2002 John Lennon Songwriting Contest. Simple Truths features eleven of Yasmine White's original songs, sung in her unique, emotionally charged voice.

Average customer rating: Fantastic album! Heavenly Singin Simply boring! 'nuff sed Next best thing to live...

Simple Truths Holmes Brothers Manufacturer: Alligator Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Contemporary Blues | Blues | Styles | Music General | Blues | Styles | Music Electric Blues Guitar | Blues | Styles | Music Modern Blues | Blues | Styles | Music General | Christian & Gospel | Styles | Music Gospel | Christian & Gospel | Styles | Music Contemporary R&B | R&B | Styles | Music General | R&B | Styles | Music General | Soul | R&B | Styles | Music Alligator Records | Amazon.com Label Stores | Stores | Music Similar Items: Righteous: The Essential Collection State of Grace Speaking in Tongues Soul Street Jubilation ASIN: B0000YTOV2 Release Date: 2004-01-13

Tracks:

1. Run Myself Out of Town
2. Shine
3. We Meet, We Part, We Remember
4. If I Needed You
5. Hey Baby
6. I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry
7. Everything Is Free
8. Big Boss Man
9. Opportunity to Cry
10. Concrete Jungle
11. You Won't Be Livin' Here
12. Hell Have to Go
13. I'm So Lonely

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Album Description

Customer Reviews:

Fantastic album!.......2006-01-31

Heavenly Singin.......2004-09-16

Simply boring!.......2004-07-14

'nuff sed.......2004-06-02

Next best thing to live..........2004-04-08

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Dave & Janel Dave & Janel Manufacturer: Dave and Janel ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Country | Styles | Music ASIN: B000CAKMI8 Release Date: 2005-08-30

Tracks:

1. Things in This World
2. Away
3. For Granted
4. Your Blue Eyes
5. Winner
6. I Love Your Smile
7. Nothin' at All
8. Koronis Hills
9. End
10. I'm Sad

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A Fathers Message to His Children P J Rutherford Manufacturer: P J Rutherford ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | New Age | Styles | Music ASIN: B000CA992I Release Date: 2005-10-11

Tracks:

1. In Need of Direction
2. Better Way
3. Stand Guard
4. Gossip
5. Good Is God with Two O's
6. Be Open to...
7. Trouble
8. Instrumental Meditation

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Simpatico Sara Pace Manufacturer: Sara Pace ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Folk | Styles | Music ASIN: B000CA361I Release Date: 2005-08-16

Tracks:

1. After the Storm
2. Whiskey
3. Concrete
4. Mama You Been on My Mind
5. Call
6. Marriage Song
7. Western Sky
8. Johnny Come Lately
9. Out of the Blue

Average customer rating: Yasmine Touches You in Places You Didn't Know You Had

Simple Truths Yasmine White Manufacturer: Yasmusic ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Folk | Styles | Music General | Folk | Indie Music | Stores | Music ASIN: B000067K04 Release Date: 2002-05-01

Tracks:

1. Lemon Trees
2. Innocent
3. I Am Not Your Saint
4. I Can't Find You
5. Swallowed Whole
6. Melt Me Down
7. Firefly's Light
8. Justice
9. By the River
10. Hold Me
11. The Simple Truth

Album Description

But there's more: the quiet comfort of fingertips, the eventual recognitions of love, the laughable ironies ... that, too, is the life we carry about. There's no easy sentiment here, though. The wisdom, the lyric-words are hard-won. And sometimes there's no winning to make a song of, only a loss, or a consternation. But, whether she's taking us up or down, Yasmine's care for truthful language is evident in every one of her songs. As a musician, Yas gives her voice the smoothest of pipes to run in, out to the wide edge of her range without a hint of strain. Whether in company with her spare, precise and always appropriate guitar work (and, on several numbers, with skillful violin and bass accompaniment, as well) or a cappella, she is at ease in her voice, and a sweet clarity is the result. As well, the tunes she's written are fresh and memorable. I'd bet that every song she sings would get votes as someone's favorite."

Customer Reviews:

Yasmine Touches You in Places You Didn't Know You Had.......2003-07-01

I was worried that Yasmine on CD would be only the faintest approximation of Yasmine four feet away. I need not have worried. It is astonishingly well-produced.

For years I have wanted there to be a genre called Adult Music, not in the euphemistic and oxymoronic sense of "adult" but capturing what it means to be grown up. What love feels like (and yes, that includes making love,) and loss, and hope, and the emotions and the blessings that will probably never again be unmixed, and about being a poet/singer who writes and sings about these things -- who indeed has almost no choice but to do so.

Yasmine's work is the very archetype of music for grownups. You will hear her CD and before the third track is over you'll be thinking of the people you want to give one to.

Average customer rating:

Hope Bruce Fite Manufacturer: Bruce Fite ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Folk | Styles | Music Electric Blues Guitar | Blues | Styles | Music Acoustic Blues | Blues | Styles | Music ASIN: B000CA7AYM Release Date: 2003-01-21

Tracks:

1. Not from Me
2. Rain
3. Most of All
4. Beautiful
5. One
6. At the Wheel
7. Tears of Love
8. What I Need
9. Search
10. Road Less Traveled

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Simple Truths ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B0001RSH9S

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Surely Like the Rain Fussy Manufacturer: FussTone ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Alt-Country & Americana | Country | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music ASIN: B000CAGAXE Release Date: 2005-06-21

Average customer rating:

A Taste of Alligator: New Blues and More From Alligator Records Alligator Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Blues | Styles | Music ASIN: B000SUWHZ8

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