- Songs from the Attic
Infobox Album
Name = Songs from the Attic
Type = Studio Album
Artist =Brooke White
Released =18 October 2005 30 April 2008 (Re-Release)
Recorded =
Genre = Pop,Pop rock
Length = 41:01
Label = New Millennium Records Group
Producer = Tim Simms
Reviews = *Allmusic Rating|3|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:fzfwxqlrld0e link]
Last album = -
This album = "Songs from the Attic" (2006)
Next album ="Songs from the Attic" is
Brooke White 's first studio album, which was released in late 2005 under the independent label New Millennium Records Group. White rose to fame after appearing as a fifth place finalist on the seventh season of Fox's hit reality television program, "American Idol ."The album is titled "Songs from the Attic" because it was written and recorded in producer Tim Simms' attic.
Information
The album was re-issued after Brooke White was eliminated from "American Idol". It is now available at [http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?i=216754266%26id=216753439%26s=143441/ iTunes] , [http://brookewhite.com/ BrookeWhite.com] and retail stores such as Walmart.
On
iTunes , the album has peaked at #19 on the Top 100 Albums Chart, #6 on the Top 100 Pop Albums Chart and #8 on the Top 10 Album chart in ."Songs from the Attic" has had 14,657 digital downloads and 2,894 hard copy sales sinces its re-release after her elimination, total records sales reaching about 22,000 since its first release. Despite this, the album didn't enter official album charts like the
Billboard 200 .Since then the album has garnered more than 50,000 more downloads. An official number has yet to be released. The album was released to retail stores such as
Walmart inJuly . The following single "Free" will be sent to radio station late 2008.ongs
The song "Come to My Rescue" was the first song White ever played for Tim Simms, and it was with this song that Simms "knew he'd found something special. It was just like...when the hairs on the back of your neck go up." Their goal was to keep the album "organic." Along with the songs co-written by Simms, White and Robin Randall, the album has two covers: "Dream On", originally by
Aerosmith , and "Yellow", originally byColdplay .cite web|url=http://www.brookewhite.com|title=Brooke White's first CD retrieved from www.brookewhite.com]The song "Free" was shot as a
music video . It was directed byBraden Barty and produced by Tim Simms. In the video, she acts out her story as a beauty school dropout who moves to Hollywood to pursue a singing career. The video helped her place 2nd in a radio contest in Arizona.Track listing
# "Free" - 3:05
# "The Way Things Used to Be" - 3:25
# "Dream On" - 4:59
# "Come to My Rescue" - 3:27
# "In Love" - 3:44
# "Like I Do" - 4:00
# "Change" - 4:08
# "Yellow" - 3:38
# "Let It Go" - 3:38
# "Follow Me" - 2:55
# "Keep Running" - 4:16Charts
References
External links
* [http://brookewhite.com/ Official Website]
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