Only Time Will Tell

Album: Something In The Water (2022)
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  • Jennifer Hartswick lets a guy have it on this trumpet-inflected tune where she calls him out for his misdeeds. She told Songfacts the story behind the song. "I wrote this with my good friends Nick Cassarino and Erin Boyd. It was a cold winter day in northern Vermont and we were all sitting around the roaring fire, reminiscing on past relationships and what keeps us attached to them.

    Nick came up with a killer bass line, which I thought sounded more like the actual melody than a bass line, so we ran with that idea.

    We stayed up all night making a demo, changing lyric after lyric until it felt right. When it was time to record it for the album, I wanted to have an epic vocal and trumpet section in it. It's part battle, part conversation, just like the relationship that the lyrics outline."
  • "Only Time Will Tell" is Jennifer Hartswick's first single as a solo artist; it's part of her debut album, Something In The Water. She's best known as a singer and trumpet player in the Trey Anastasio Band, and has also done session work and toured with many artists, including Carlos Santana, Dave Matthews and Herbie Hancock.

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