 I
recorded this song with Roland Hanna on
an album called
You're Nearer. Most of
the songs were done with a quartet (Roland
Hanna, Bob Brookmeyer, Ray Drummond, Terri
Lyne Carrington), but the title song and
this one, which ends the album, were just
piano and voice. (This album on LP was originally
recorded by Tono Records in 1986 and was
reissued on CD in 1998.)
This was a tune requested of me by the producer,
Ted Ono, and at first I resisted because
although I loved the melody, I thought the
lyric was sentimental. But I did it as an
acting exercise, imagining the first few
lines of each stanza as something brittle
being spoken to another person, while the
second part of the lyric, beginning with
“Except when soft rains fall etc.” as thoughts
to myself. This kept it from being too general
(sentimental) and the more specific my thoughts
became, the more emotion was released. It
is one of my favorite songs now.
Nancy Harrow, jazz vocalist, composer
NancyHarrow.com
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