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HonkyTonkinMusic.com ReviewBOBBILYNN/HALFWAY HOME.
Recorded in Hendersonville, Tennessee and produced by BOBBY G. RICE (see on
this site) with Fiddle, Steel Guitar, Piano, Bass Guitar, Drums, Bass, &
Background Vocals. All songs are original most of which were written or
co-written by BOBBILYNN who's vocals are forceful and sings somewhat in the
tradition of WILMA LEE COOPER. The production is superb with lots of
"chicken pickin guitar", cryin' pedal steel and double stop country
fiddle. Listing: I CAN'T GET A HANDLE ON YOU...MY HEART STILL BELONGS TO
YOU....WHEN I'M LYING CLOSE TO YOU....LIKE A FREIGHT TRAIN....CAN'T GO
BACK....A LITTLE BIT OF YOU....HALFWAY HOME...WHEN I LOST
YOU...FOOL....LOVESICK COWGIRLS...APRIL'S SONG...ALIVE INSIDE MY HEART. 13
performances. RECOMMENDED. BLCD. Amazon.com
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BobbiLynn, Halfway Home 5-31-07 Rating: Shipping: In Stock. Ships
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Radio Review, USA (posted on Cdbaby)
Radio Review, Japan Tom Kawai, 55 Country Radio Station,Japan, Lonestar
Productions, Japan
Just received the CD.Thanks a bunch. Great great album!! You're
excellent on slow ballads as well as shuffle beat. Good backups. Andrew Sirocci, The
World Newspaper Coos Bay Oregon BobbiLynn White flashes an easy,
country smile and with an infectious, laugh-at-everything attitude, deadpans
that she never once gave up on making music a career. She never lost sight of her goal
while caring for foster children in her Salem home. She kept her objectives
well in mind, even while putting them off as she worked as a homeless
advocate and developed a nonprofit agency to promote issues through media and
arts. Now that she's a mere $8,500
from producing her debut CD, entitled "Halfway Home," White can say
confidently that the past 20 years of her life weren't a matter of diverting
her focus from music and performance, but they did help her collect stories
to tell. "The drive to get it out
never went away," she said, discussing her upcoming album. "I put
mysef on the back burner". White's dream to make it in the
country-music business simmered for years while she worked on other aspects
of her life. Not that she ever left the music business entirely, but for
years, other priorities took precedence. Now, after approximately 18 months
in Coos County dedicated to writing and composing new songs, White-along with
musicians and friends Patty Conquest -Burks and Dorothy Sherritt -said she's
nearly ready to make a run at the nashville music circuit. "I've been frustrated and
I've been disappointed," she said, adding that it takes confidence to
keep a dream alive as long as she has. "you have to know you can do it
and not let people who want to take advantage of you get in the way. For White,
who has the self -assurance, being on stage comes as easily s flashing a
smile. Under show lights and in front of a microphone, White focuses on
peoples faces and gages how well the show is going by their
expressions-whether they cry or react during sad songs and cheer or dance
during lively, happy tunes. "I can get up in front of
2000 people and it doesnt bother me a bit," she said, "I'm fine up
there". It's always been that way.
White's flamboyant personality made itself known to people at an early age.
She began singing as a nine year old who became enamored with performing when
she found a chest of clothes in an attic in her Roseburg home. Donning
unique, old-fashioned outfits, White practiced singing to an audience of
neighborhood cats. Decades later, having cycled
through numerous musical experiences and audiences, White established her own
style of music, which she described as traditional country with a blues
influence. White won't categorize the songs in any specific vein. "People that hear the
music, they say 'I have never quite heard country music like that
before," she said, "It's just what I feel inside. "It just
comes out". Burks, a North bend High School
choir pianist and a private teacher who once made a run at the music business
with a Christian music band in California, said the songs focus on taking
listeners through a short journey in someone else's life, or recount an
episode or moment in time. "When I write songs I'm
usually trying to tell a story," Burks said, "It's like a little
movie". Burks ha attempted to make music
a business before and while she finds the process a sometimes scarey
experience, she's confident in White's contacts and influence in making
"Halfway Home" a success. White, who said she feels
"exactly the same as (Burks) feels," adds her own life experiences
to her lyrical compositions, giving her music her own added touch of realism. In the early 1900's, White began the Spotlight, a registered
nonprofit corporation that focused on helping the homeless through media and
arts awareness. The Spotlight, a variety show that aired on cable television
in the Portland and Vancouver areas, was on the air for nearly nine years.
Through the show, White helped collect hundreds of blankets from the US Army
Corps of Engineers, food donations from a variety of groups and highlighted
homeless issues. "It was a great way to reach out to people," White
said. White was accustomed to reaching
out. In the 1980's, she became a foster parent focused on troubled or
sexually abused children and eventually would help more than 100 kids in her 13
years. Along with her own three children, she raised them in a three-story
home in Salem. Some of those experiences make
it into White's lyrics, she said. Many of her songs are just as tender as
others are gritty. A recent compilation was
inspired by an octogenarian couple who often come dancing at her shows near
Greenacres. The couple recently celebrated
their 57th anniversary, White said, and she was moved by the couple, whose
focus on each other is engrossing. "Halfway Home" will
include at least 12 original songs written by White, Burks and lead guitarist
Jeffrey J. Hays. White, whose resume of accomplishments includes writing and
performing with Motown veteran and friend Mike Valvano, already has lined up
a long list of successful country musicians and producers to help make
"Halfway Home" a musical success. White said Bobby G. Rice, a
long-time Grand Old Opry member, as well as a record producer, musician and
recording artist whose first national chart record was "Sugar
Shack," will be promoting the record, nationally and internationally.
Rice will also be releasing the album for billboard chart recognition,
according to White. The studio
session leader for the album will be Jim Brown, who co-wrote, "It's Five
O'Clock Somewhere. The Nashville Pickers will provide the musical backup for
the album. So far, White and her musical
crew have kept their skills honed by performing regularly at the Halfway
Tavern and Roadhouse, between Coos Bay and Coquille on state Highway 42.
White also has been looking for other local gigs. It will take about seven days in
the studio to master the CD, White said, something she hopes to complete by
the fall. The first album will represent the accomplishment of a lifelong
passion but White already is talking about a second and third follow-up to
her debut. After decades of aspiring, White doesn't want to stop there. "This will fulfill my
dream, but when do dreams end?" she said. "You can still dream when
the sun comes up." The Adams County Record Newspaper,
Idaho-Dale Fisk The "must see' bands on
Saturday include Nashville recording artist, BobbiLynn White and local
favorites Highway 95. The News-Review
Newspaper Erin Snelgrove Current (On the Cover) Singing
In The Spirit Country, bluegrass, gospel
lineups scheduled for county fair. (very large picture of BobbiLynn
with text under: BobbiLynn White of Coquille will be among several state and
national performers putting on music at next weeks Douglas county fair.) ....and BobbiLynn White of
Coquille are two of the local and state acts set to perform at the Douglas
County Fair next week. White is also a country crooner. Both said haring their music
with appreciative crowds is one of the greatest joys in life. "Country music is my
favorite," White said. "It seems to tell more of a story, more of
the truth...The greatest reward of being a musician is that it gives you the
opportunity to help others. I feel real blessed that God gave me the talent
and the people I work with to help other people. That's something I love
doing."..... White, a former Roseburg
resident, is also excited to play at the fair and to promote her new album,
"Halfway Home," recorded for Midland Records in Nashville, Tenn.
The record is composed of 13 original songs and will be released this month.
Many of the songs, she said, reflect the joys and trials she has experienced
in her own life. "The proudest moment I have
to date is the completion of the CD, "she said. "It was a long,
hard road to get there...I think I'm so proud of that mostly because it was
so hard to get to this point, and I didn't give up." The song that means the most to
her, White said, is titled, "When I'm Lying Close To You." The song
was inspired by a close friend of hers named Iva who recently died of lung
cancer. The song was written from Iva's husbands standpoint, reflecting how
he felt about her. "We did a cheesy little
demo with ourselves on stage, just that song, and gave it to her," White
said, she cried and cried....that's why it means so much to me." White devoted herself to her marriage,
her kids and working as a foster parent. Now that she's older and her kids
are grown, White said she's excited to do something for herself. She's spending much of her time
on the road, conducting interviews and convincing radio stations to give her
album airplay. Although she knows her ambition of being a successful musician
is fraught with challenges, she said she has no regrets about the path she's
chosen. More than anything , she said,
she hopes people will take a few minutes to listen to her music to hear what
she has to say. "I want them to think, 'Oh,
I can relate,'"White said. "Maybe something we're doing will help
them to not feel down, to think they can survive.....We're just trying to
promote the album and play our little hearts out and do the best we can.
Everything went into this. It's been that way for a long time, years." Polk County Itemizer
- Observer Newspaper Recording Artist Former Dallas resident BobbiLynn
White, now of Coquille, recorded a 13 -song country music album titled "Halfway
Home" in Nashville, Tenn., on the Midland record label. Some of her
songs will play locally on KPIE radio. For more
information:www.bobbilynnband.com Lebanon Express Newspaper BobbiLynn White
Cuts CD BobbiLynn White, formerly of Lebanon,
released a country CD under the Midland Record label on Sept. 13.
"Halfway Home" is receiving airplay throughout the United States. The CD contains 13 original
songs by White. "I'm very fortunate and
blessed," White said when interviewed in November. She used to practice in a
run-down garage on Mill street in Roseburg. She refers to the release of the
Cd as the "start of my big break." She lived in Lebanon as a child
and now lives in Salem with her mother, Ruth (Washa)McQuigg, when she is not
touring. While raising her children,
White provided respite foster care. She's fostered 116 children overall. When she performs in Oregon,
White is accompanied by local musicians that she has known throughout her
career. One of those is Gordie
Gordineer, who was in the production of the CD. Gordineer is a bass player
who has been performing for about 45 years. For 26 years, he played with the
Maddox Brothers and Rose, a well known local group that performed in dance
clubs such as Cottonwoods Ballroom. He has also performed with Earle Poole
Ball, Red Simpson, Johnny Cash, Johnny Cash Jr. and Merle Haggard. "He is the best bass player
I've ever heard ," White said. Another local musician who added
to the CD is Dorothy Sherritt, harmonica artist. White's talents aren't just
singing. For ten years she produced, hosted and performed on "Spotlight
an Oregon Cable Television Variety Program." "Halfway Home" is
available at music retailers including Ranch records on Liberty Street in
Salem or Harvest Music on Commercial Street in Salem and online at
www.cdbaby.com and Tower Records. She hopes it will be available soon at
WalMart, Sam Goody and Blockbuster stores. Coquille Sentinal
Newspaper On The Road To
Nashville BobbiLynn White is a singer and
songwriter from Coquille. She and her band will be performing a benefit dance
at the Coquille Community Building March 19 from 8 to 11p.m. Bobbilynn will
be co-producing her original music album titled, "Halfway Home",
with Bobby G Rice under the Midland label. Jim Brown is scheduled as studio
session leader for her project and the "Nashville Pickers" will be
providing musical back up. Myrtle Point Herald
Newspaper Group Hosts Benefit
Dance BobbiLynn and her band will be
performing a benefit dance at the Coquille Community Building Saturday from 8
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