Angel White

One Liner: Semi-countrified black dude with a confusing name

Wikipedia Genre: No Wikipedia, but country, Americana, singer-songwriter

Home: Dallas

Poster Position: 4 (21)
Both Weekends.  

Saturday at 1:45.

Thoughts:   Three songs on Spotify, so not much to be seen here, but somewhat surprisingly we are talking about a dude.  A singer/songwriter from Dallas who leans country in those three songs.  "IF YOU'RE GONNA LEAVE" is his top song, with 230k streams.  It starts out like a pensive love song ready made for some lovelorn scene in Grey's Anatomy.  The harmonies in the chorus are lovely.  "VILLAIN" is his second-most streamed at 39k.  This one is the most countrified, because it has a steel guitar in there, but it also uses a cuss word, which is very much not the way Hank would have done it.  "LONG WAY UP" is actually kind of a blues rock song, like something Gary Clark Jr. or the Arc Angels would have put together.  Only 12k streams for that one.  "VILLAIN" is the song that has an official video.

Oh.  Not only is this a dude named Angel, but also it is a black dude.  My preconceived notions are just dropping by the wayside.  According to one article I read, he actually has an album, I guess it is just that Spotify isn't carrying it?  Ghost of the West is the name of the album that either exists or is still upcoming.  White is actually from Cleburne, and he got his start by busking in Deep Ellum.  He later went on tour with a friend named Mod Sun and cut his teeth on a 25 city tour.  Now he apparently works on a local bee farm and raises horses?  Weird juxtaposition here...

If he weren't up against Declan McKenna, I'd definitely go give it a shot.  But you wouldn't be wrong to try him out...