Yakiimo - Simone White

My favourite album of the week is Yakiimo, the third CD by California-based singer-songwriter, Simone White.

It's on Honest Jon's,a label that really can be relied on for quality releases. She has a wonderful delicacy of touch, writes marvelous songs and has an intimacy in her singing that gets a thumbs up from me. Time will tell whether the new album is up to the standard of I'm The Man her previous release.

Incidentally, that's a picture of her mother,a 60s folk singer, with a baby tiger on the cover of I'm The Man. And her granny was a burlesque singer! Talented family!