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An overlooked gem from Everyday Heroes & HeroinesEach Time is the only song I co-wrote.* Jim Sandy and I met while attending songwriting workshops with songwriter Steve Seskin. The starting fragment was mine but beyond that I really can't tell you which lines came from me and which came from Jim. A very successful partnership! Musically the track always immerses me in a sonic sense of place and time. Bonnie Hayes’ (Love Letter, Have A Heart, Chair of the Songwriting Department Berklee School of Music) keyboard work sets the harmonic base layer. Bennie Rietveld’s (Santana, Miles Davis Band) expressive fretless bass work really should have also been given supporting vocal credit. Kevin Hayes’ (Robert Cray Band) brushwork is an exercise in tasteful restraint and Amy Ziff’s (BETTY) poignant cello dances from swelling with longing to fluttering away like a butterfly that cannot be held. Producer Teresa Trull encouraged me to put an intimate whisper on the vocal almost as if I were singing to myself. By the way, percussionist Michael Spiro was using a Sweet & Low packet expertly miked and mixed by the amazing Tom Size.

*Teresa Trull and Ray Obeido received songwriting credit on With A Little Luck because their arrangement radically improved the song but we did not write the song together.

 The Players
Vocal: Deidre McCalla
Bass: Benny Reitveld
Drums: Kevin Hayes
Keyboards: Bonnie Hayes
Cello: Amy Ziff
Percussion: Michael Spiro
Sugar Substitute Packet: Michael Spiro
Recorded and Mixed by Tom Size

EACH TIME

I sit at our favorite table
Sipping coffee while the sun warms my face
I close my eyes to push back the memories
Of all the laughter we’ve shared in this place
I tell myself I’m okay
But I know it’s a lie

Each time I smell your perfume
Drifting by
Such a sweetness
Makes me cry

I think that it’s all behind me
And the pain is finally fading away
But it’s not true and I long to tell you
How I love you to this very day
I tell myself I’m okay
But I know it’s a lie

Each time I smell your perfume
Drifting by
Such a sweetness
Makes me cry

I feel your presence by my side
How long before I know
What will it take for me to learn
That I must let you go

Each time I smell your perfume
Drifting by
Such a sweetness
Makes me cry

by Deidre McCalla and Jim Sandy
©Chetwood Arts Music (BMI)/Flat Wallet Publishing (BMI)