Today M usician Amy White defies easy classification. She is a multi-instrumentalist known for her mandolin playing with guitarist Al Petteway and her solo work on piano and mandolin.
Musicians are the products of their influences.
A discerning ear can quite often name the individual artists who impacted strongly on the young artist s creative unconscious. It s not at all unlikely that a rock artist electric guitarist may display echoes of John Coltrane s horn patterns in his improvisation, or a fusion violinist may sound faintly reminiscent of Miles Davis. Occasionally an artist comes along who has been influenced be certain genres and styles, but in the main, voices something entirely different and unclassifiable. That s the case with Amy White. Major labels prefer work which sounds like work that was financially successful for them.