The Growing Season

Retail Music Store Collection

This title will be released on August 12, 2008.

Product Description
I met Rebecca Martin about ten years ago, sitting upstairs at a club with guitarist John Scofield and bass player Larry Grenadier. She and Larry were just married, or about to be...they couldn t stop looking at each other. No one mentioned that Rebecca was a singer. They didn t have to. It wasn t just the soft lilt of her voice, but the way she held onto words for an extra beat and then let them tumble out in a rush of soft exclamations. Even when she was in the background, it was hard not to see her as being centerstage.

I found out more later on. She had come down to New York from rural Maine and had a band called Once Blue with singer guitarist Jesse Harris. Their album on EMI still sounds playful and timeless, as if Blossom Dearie had recorded with Steely Dan. But the confines of a band, even a casual one, was out of character for Rebecca, just as it would be out of character for Georgia O Keefe, Amelia Earheart or Joni Mitchell. She moved out of the band the way you d move out of an apartment that was too small or too noisy and moved into a new space.

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