Once Blue

Track Listing

Save Me
I Haven’t Been Me
Stardust and Snow
When The Lilies Bloom
Trumansburg
Geraldine
Where To Now
Wait
Amateur
Now That I’ve Disappeared
I Hate to See You Go
Don’t Eat Your Heart Out
The Endicott
Children and Holidays
Shadow of a Bird
Music of the Carousel
Gold Underground
Out in the Rain
Will You Come With Me
If You Love Me
Joey

Many moons ago, in the mid 90s, I was a part of a group called Once Blue, led by the singer Rebecca Martin, with whom I made my first albums for EMI. The first one came out in ’95, and we toured behind it for a year. The second one was recorded at the end of ’96 and never came out, except in Japan in 2002, appearing as the 9 bonus tracks to the release of the remastered original album. That version is what I would call “The Complete Once Blue,” containing over 20 songs, now available on all DSPs.

That second album, which begins at track 13, “The Endicott,” was thought for a long time to be lost forever. We had been dropped from the label before ever doing the final mixes and later did not have possession of the masters; besides, it never seemed practical to bother finishing it, since the group ceased to exist. But in 2002, our former management, going out of business, offered to give us back all our old reels and tapes, of which there was one single DAT cassette of the second album’s rough mixes. They sounded quite impressive, bolstering the perennial argument that “the rough mixes are better,” and it was lucky they saw the light of day.