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Praise for Symphony in 16 Bars
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Listen to Kenny White on ASCAP's Audioportrait
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Toronto Star Profile Piece on Kenny
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The Toronto Star at Folk Alliance
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Kenny featured in The Lefsetz Letter
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The Dutch music magazine, Heaven, reviews Symphony in 16 Bars
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"[The songs] are so rich in melody that if Kenny were to hum them, we would still love them. Alas, not only does he not hum, he has filled these songs with some of the most mature, contemplative, insightful, poignant, imaginative and hilarious lyrics that we have heard, well, ever."
Read the full review at Adultpop.com
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"On Symphony in 16 Bars, his second full-length release, he has produced another winning collection of piano-based melodic rock in the tradition of Bruce Hornsby and Marc Cohn. ****"
Read the full review at Musicbox-Online.com
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"Lyrically strong, musically sophisticated and an excellent and individual singer/songwriter disc. Highly recommended."
Read the full review at FishRecords.co.uk
Interviews
Chris Cameron
talks with Kenny White at
Dreams Awake Music
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Recent
Interview with Kenny
Online Reviews
Peter Wolf's "Sleepless", produced by Kenny White, voted one of Rolling Stone's Top 500 Records
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Music
Box Review
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Musician's
Realm
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Cosmik.com
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1340mag.com
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Hampshire Gazette, May 2, 2002
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The
Rogovoy Report, May 2002
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A
German Musik Website Reviews Uninvited Guest
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Uninvited
Guest named Album of the Week on WVIA's Mixed Bag
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Village
Voice Review - July 10, 2001
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Yoursound.com
Show Review - Club Passim, Cambridge, MA, 3/15/02
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Print Press
American
Songwriter, March/April 2003
Album
Review for Uninvited Guest Already a renowned producer, composer, and
pianist in New York City, Kenny White proves he's also a masterful pop/rock
songwriter with his debut release. His marriage of lyrics and music are
exceptional. The wistful tunes speak of lost love, heartbreak, and personal
insecurities with an occasional gem of hope and enlightenment. Musically,
the songs are blues, ballad and folk-rock with a touch of "urban".
The opening title cut bounds in with an Elvis Costello-esque feel to go
along with the sentiment "now I wake up every morning like an uninvited
guest." The sparse arrangement and duet vocal with Shawn Colvin on
"In Our Hands" magnifies the poetic emptiness of the lines "that
love, like an old piece of cloth from the attic/just came apart in our
hands." And the acoustic rock anthem "In My Recurring Dream"
is nothing short of a lyrical masterpiece with imagery that morphs into
new images and makes sense of the nonsensical-just like a dream! This
one goes in the "wish I had written it" category.
--Nancy Moran
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Relix Magazine, June/July 2002
On The Verge: Artists You Should Know About
by Mick Skidmore
New York, NY: Kenny White has long been a noted producer, songwriter and
pianist. He has worked with such notables as Keith Richards, Shawn Colvin,
James Taylor, Emmylou Harris and many more. He has now branched out on
his own and released a solo album, Uninvited Guest, a sophisticated and
artfully produced album that highlights his vocal and songwriting skills.
The title cut and several others have a similar tone and feel to early
Elvis Costello. Guitarist Duke Levine, Shawn Colvin and Peter Wolf are
among the guests, but its White’s jazzy songs ("The Beautiful
Changes," "Johnny’s Got a Crush On Marilyn") that
really stand out.
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Sing
Out! Vol. 46 #1, Spring 2002
Kenny
White, Uninvited Guest (Kenny White)
White's smooth, smoky vocals blends with pop, jazz, and folk, with layers
of piano, Wurlitzer, spacious electric guitar textures and a restless
rhythmic undercurrent. White's impressionistic songs grow on you over
time, as his images evoke your own memories and associations, and the
subtly insistent grooves and instrumental textures stay with you well
after the record stops spinning. Nice stuff.
- RM
Quotes
Kenny
has taken his vast amount of energy for spotlighting others and has turned
that light on his own heart this time. The CD, "Uninvited Guest",
is the technical culmination of many fruitful years as composer, songwriter,
studio musician, and producer, and the emotional culmination of some less
successful journeys, brought to you here in crystalline detail.
Associated with some extremely successful CDs and films, Kenny has now
found both the desire and clarity to undertake this work of his own. It
blueprints a need to find joy under contentment, strength under fear,
and does so with humor, perspective, and precision. Each of these stones
that is turned over reveals a new gift that is as infectious as it is
compelling.
"Uninvited Guest" is a work of heart and soul to which anyone,
in a small or huge way, can relate.
-Sid
Arthur
('a swami's guide to the universe')
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!@#$%!&*?#!
-Cheryl Wheeler
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...especially about the band's pianist, Kenny White, who unleashed a couple
of solos that were about as enlivening as anything heard on the pop front
this year.
-John Rockwell,
NY Times
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...Kenny White, who plays like a man possessed, transfering all his energies into his keys, keeping him safe off the streets and behind the Steinway.
-Frank
Rizzo,
New Haven Journal Courier
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Not
many artists have the capacity to be melodic, intelligent and direct all
at the same time. Kenny is one of the few. He has clearly been steeped
in music and self-inflicted torture for so long that he is able to combine
haunting melody with acid poetry and still almost effortlessly say exactly
what's on his mind. For all its darkness, this is a joyful record. The
musicianship and arrangements produce a passion and energy that is uplifting.
And Kenny's voice is so sweet and vulnerable that you'll forgive him anything.
-Jonathan Spottiswoode
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...the
piano playing of Kenny White is a marvel in itself...
-Patrick Taggart,
Austin, Texas
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...a
provocative ensemble, paced by pianist extraordinaire, Kenny White...
-Steve Morse,
Boston Globe
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...and
Kenny White, one of the musical highlights of the evening.
-Robert Palmer,
NY Times