Yakiimo

2009 album from the U.S.-based singer/songwriter. The follow-up to 2007's I Am the Man finds 'The Beep Beep Song' singer working once more with producer Mark Nevers (Lambchop, Bonnie 'Prince' Billy) and was recorded at his Beech House home studio in Nashville. The album title, Yakiimo, is the Japanese word for 'stone roasted mountain sweet potato' and is named after the song of the same name on the album that White says she wrote about 'the little carts that drive around in the winter, the singers singing the mournful yakiimo song'. As with her debut, a handful of the songs on Yakiimo are covers of songs by songwriting team Frank Bango and Richy Vesecky: 'Candy Bar Killer', 'Bunny in a Bunny Suit', 'Olivia 101' and the previously unreleased 'Your Stop'. Honest John's.