Some Lessons: The Bedroom Sessions
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Some Lessons: The Bedroom Sessions is the first EP
recorded by singer-songwriter
Melody Gardot
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and learned to play the guitar and write her own songs. This independent EP arose from those sessions in 2005. Not much has been published about the record.
The title song, "Some Lessons", is considered autobiographical, as it contains lines such as "It's a miracle that I'm alive(..)To think that I could have fallen/A centimeter to the left/Would not be here to see the sunset/Or have myself a time" and "Remember the sound of the pavement/World turned upside down". That song, along with "Wicked Ride", can also be heard on her Worrisome Heart
album. The track "Down my Avenue" is partially sung in French
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Extended play
An EP is a musical recording which contains more music than a single, but is too short to qualify as a full album or LP. The term EP originally referred only to specific types of vinyl records other than 78 rpm standard play records and LP records, but it is now applied to mid-length Compact...
recorded by singer-songwriter
Singer-songwriter
Singer-songwriters are musicians who write, compose and sing their own musical material including lyrics and melodies. As opposed to contemporary popular music singers who write their own songs, the term singer-songwriter describes a distinct form of artistry, closely associated with the...
Melody Gardot
Melody Gardot
Melody Gardot is a Grammy-nominated American singer, writer and musician in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, though she considers herself a "citizen of the world". She has been influenced by such blues and jazz artists as Judy Garland, Janis Joplin, Miles Davis, Duke Ellington, Stan Getz and George...
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History and song information
After being hit by a car and suffering serious injuries in November 2003, Melody Gardot tried music therapyMusic therapy
Music therapy is an allied health profession and one of the expressive therapies, consisting of an interpersonal process in which a trained music therapist uses music and all of its facets—physical, emotional, mental, social, aesthetic, and spiritual—to help clients to improve or maintain their...
and learned to play the guitar and write her own songs. This independent EP arose from those sessions in 2005. Not much has been published about the record.
The title song, "Some Lessons", is considered autobiographical, as it contains lines such as "It's a miracle that I'm alive(..)To think that I could have fallen/A centimeter to the left/Would not be here to see the sunset/Or have myself a time" and "Remember the sound of the pavement/World turned upside down". That song, along with "Wicked Ride", can also be heard on her Worrisome Heart
Worrisome Heart
Worrisome Heart is the debut album of jazz singer-songwriter Melody Gardot. It was first released independently in 2006 and later re-released on Verve Records in 2008...
album. The track "Down my Avenue" is partially sung in French
French language
French is a Romance language spoken as a first language in France, the Romandy region in Switzerland, Wallonia and Brussels in Belgium, Monaco, the regions of Quebec and Acadia in Canada, and by various communities elsewhere. Second-language speakers of French are distributed throughout many parts...
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Track listing
All tracks by Melody Gardot.- "Wicked Ride" - 3:24
- "Cry Wolf" - 3:45
- "Down My Avenue" - 4:37
- "Don't You Worry Baby" - 4:08
- "Momma" - 4:18
- "Some Lessons" - 5:46
- "Goodnite" - 3:12 (Hidden trackHidden trackIn the field of recorded music, a hidden track is a piece of music that has been placed on a CD, audio cassette, vinyl record or other recorded medium in such a way as to avoid detection by the casual listener...
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