Joy Lynn White

Joy Lynn White was born in Arkansas, but raised in Mishawaka, IN. At the seasoned age of five, White began singing with <a href="spotify:artist:07xZZegbvtxBUX3jkvZQlt">the White Family Band</a>, led by her father, Gene White. After high school, she headed to Nashville, where she worked as a demo singer before landing a recording contract with Columbia, who issued her debut as Joy White in 1992. Between Midnight & Hindsight showcased White's fiery vocal delivery and flair for cutting, freewheeling honky tonk. However, the album's three singles found only moderate success, and the album quickly faded. Undeterred, White added a middle name and returned in 1994 with the barreling Wild Love. But despite White's undeniable vocal style and the presence of a crack studio band, the album wasn't a success. Columbia dropped her, and she took some time off to refocus.

White re-emerged in 1997 with a new label (Polygram) and a new album, Lucky Few. Recorded with <a href="spotify:artist:2sxmKe3CUrWnx7eoXMhOlW">Dwight Yoakam</a>'s West Coast production team, the album featured songwriting contributions from such notables as <a href="spotify:artist:60ht0hWRy1yjUDfNsLuHuP">Lucinda Williams</a> and <a href="spotify:artist:0C6MCOqzlXMdX8Ij0mR6ct">Jim Lauderdale</a>, and toned down White's powerful delivery, tempering it with arrangements that fell somewhere between mature Nashville pop-country and the more grassroots approach of outsider country acts like <a href="spotify:artist:5CAiy5rDr3LaSoGtJOq6A0">Nanci Griffith</a>. The album met with critical acclaim, but still didn't break White into the mainstream. After Lucky Few, White continued to collaborate as a singer with artists like <a href="spotify:artist:2sxmKe3CUrWnx7eoXMhOlW">Yoakam</a> and <a href="spotify:artist:4Ud7lY9V8pOyydumajSW3O">the Mavericks</a>, and worked as a staff writer for Nashville's Welk Music. She contributed songs to <a href="spotify:artist:60ht0hWRy1yjUDfNsLuHuP">Lucinda Williams</a>' 2001 album, Essence, and found success in Europe's thriving country & western scene. In 2000, the Lucky Dog imprint reissued Between Midnight & Hindsight in a remastered version as part of its "Pick of the Litter" series. Two years later, White self-released On Her Own, a collection of solo demo recordings, through her website. ~ Johnny Loftus, Rovi