Songs from the Attic (2005) White's debut album,
Songs from the Attic, was released nationwide in the US by the independent record label New Millennium Records Group, in 2005, and was produced and co-written by Tim Simms.
Songs from the Attic is a full-length 11 song album which contains some of White's first songs that she ever wrote and recorded. The album also contains cover versions of Aerosmith's "Dream On" and Coldplay's "Yellow". White's first music video was from a song off
Songs from the Attic, entitled, "Free", which was directed by
Braden 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.
Songs from the Attic was re-released, after White was eliminated from American Idol.
High Hopes and Heartbreak (2009–2011) On January 31, White announced that she signed with Sanctuary Artist Management, instead of earlier reported
Sanctuary Records. She also announced that the title of her new album would be called
High Hopes & Heartbreak. On February 25, 2009, White released her first single, "
Hold Up My Heart," written entirely by White. The song featured a piano riff that repeated throughout with a mid-tempo beat. White returned to American Idol to perform her debut single, on the February 26 results show and played the keyboard to accompany the song. White announced, in May 2009, that she started her own record label "June Baby Records", with Randy Jackson, and her first post-Idol album,
High Hopes & Heartbreak, would be available July 21, 2009. The second single off the album "
Radio Radio" was available on
iTunes on June 23. The album was originally supposed to be dropped on June 2, 2009, but was postponed to release a little more than two months later, as said in White's blog entry for May 15. White held a live webcast at 5 pm
PST, on July 9, 2009, and announced that she had teamed up with
iTunes and her album
High Hopes & Heartbreak was to be exclusively digitally released from the
iTunes Store on the July 14, as well as the music video of her second single
Radio Radio to be available for downloads free on the same date. During the webcast, she performed 3 songs on her album, including her single "
Radio Radio", her cover of
Use Somebody originally by the
Kings of Leon and the title track off her album, "
High Hopes & Heartbreak", all performed with her on the keyboard. A 'backstage pass' was also released in connection with The Republic Project, which allows purchasers to receive and view behind-the-scenes videos of the making of
High Hopes & Heartbreak. 10 lucky purchasers of the backstage pass were chosen to attend the live webcast, in Los Angeles, which streamed live on July 9 on Facebook and
uStream. A Live Session
EP was released on the October 13, 2009, exclusively on the
iTunes Store. It consisted of five songs recorded live during her summer tour with fellow 'Idol' mate
Michael Johns and Benton Paul. The five songs included three
acoustic and piano versions from "
High Hopes & Heartbreak", a cover of
Fleetwood Mac's "
Rhiannon" and a personal song that White wrote, "Take it Away."
Jack and White (2011–2016) Brooke White partnered up with singer-songwriter Jack Matranga to form a duo
Jack and White and released a six-song EP entitled
Gemini. They got together initially to write songs for her new solo album but ended up releasing an EP together. White and Jack Matranga teamed up for the second time on a new EP titled
Winter, released on January 24, 2012, which included four original tracks and a live acoustic version of "Telephone Games." The first single was "Night After Night." Later in 2012, the duo released
Undercover, a 6-song EP of covers spanning six decades.
Brooke White Christmas (2012) White's first Christmas album was released in 2012 on June Baby Records featuring eleven tracks including "
Blue Christmas" and "
Silent Night." She performed her rendition of
Paul McCartney's "
Wonderful Christmastime" on
NBC's
Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree Lighting in 2012.
Never Grow Up: Lullabies and Happy Songs (2014) In November, White announced she will be recording a lullaby album on PledgeMusic to raise money for the charity Operation Underground Railroad, who rescues children from sexual slavery. Brooke collaborated with different artists on each song with a goal to raise $20,000. Foundation Entertainment has pledged to match all donations, dollar for dollar, up to $20,000. Collaborators include fellow
American Idol alums
David Archuleta and
Carly Smithson,
Leigh Nash,
Deana Carter,
Lucy Schwartz, John Hanson,
Mindy Gledhill,
Jack Matranga, Daniel Tashian and
Chris Seefried.
Calico (2019) On October 4, 2019, White released a country album,
Calico, short for "California Country", via Nevado Music / June Baby Records. White collaborated with Eric Straube and Chris Qualls for the album. ==Musical influences==