Video premiere: Amelia White's 'Ghetto'

Amelia White's Ghetto video, premiering exclusively at Paste BN, accompanies a track off her latest album Old Postcard, a "theme album about home and family as inspiration," White says.

Old Postcard features "haunting" melodies, something White, often compared to Lucinda Williams, embraces. "There's definitely some ghosts floating around in this album," she says.

Ghetto was filmed on White's back deck and features members of what she calls the gritty, colorful community of East Nashville musicians. "When I first moved to Nashville 13 years ago, someone said 'Welcome to the songwriters' ghetto,' " she says. "Living here makes you feel kind of supported in that. (There's) a sense of community and even a healthy competition."

This community wasn't always familiar to White, whose parents disapproved of her music career as well as her sexuality. Although difficult, it ultimately helped shape her as a writer. "I was probably born a writer, but just constantly feeling like you're not right kind of makes you go into your own world where you just create," she says.

"Walk the road of your heroes," a line in Ghetto, is the idea behind the video. "All those people sitting around jamming ... are putting everything on the line to do that," she says.