Album Notes

"We need this music. It is music that feeds the soul."
Craig Stevens - Los Angeles, CA

"Great vocals. Great songs. Great Record."
Bob Kirsch - Welk Music Group

Jenny Yates has established herself as a successful songwriter - writing songs recorded by a variety of artists and culminating in her writing collaboration with Garth Brooks, which produced many songs - eight he's recorded - including his hits "Standing Outside the Fire", "The Red Strokes", "Thicker Than Blood" and the Golden Globe nominated "When You Come Back To Me Again" (from the film FREQUENCY).

Through the years - she has written songs with some of the world's finest singer/songwriters including: Garth Brooks, Keb'Mo', J.D. Souther, Eric Kaz, Janis Ian, Darden Smith, Andrew Gold, Carl Jackson, Peter McCann, Mike Reid and Tony Joe White.

Making a "to do" list of her life - she found she still wanted to make her own statement as a recording artist. Her first cd - "out of the blue" - consists of 14 songs she's written over the course of the last 15 years with co-writers Andrew Gold, Gary Nicholson, Tom Kimmel, Pierce Pettis, Kieran Kane, Charlie Black, Walt Aldridge, Buddy Mondlock, Garth Brooks, Johnny Lee Schell & Mark Isham.

Setting out to create her own folk-country sound "out of the blue" - was self-produced - recorded in Nashville and Los Angeles - with some of the country's finest musicians, singers and engineers.

Harmony vocals are provided by friends, Andrew Gold on "The Streets of Your Town", Garth Brooks on "A Good Rain", Trisha Yearwood on "Beautiful World" and,
Garth Brooks and Trisha Yearwood on "This Boat".

Born and raised in Phoenix, Jenny now divides her time between Los Angeles, CA, Nashville, TN, and Blue, Arizona (located in the White Mountains of eastern Arizona), writing songs and singing for a living.

"I love this cd. It gives me a 'peaceful easy feeling' ".
Tuttie Jackson - Nashville, TN

"She is not only a great writer, but there's something about her voice. Everytime she sings I'm just taken in by it. Her voice is commanding yet inviting - I call it amazing'."
Craig Lackey - Nashville
Songwriters Assoc. Intl.
Workshop Co-Ordinator - LA, CA