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If I Could Change Your Mind

I CHOOSE YOU
written by Adam Melchor, Nick Long and Leroy Clampitt
produced by Adam Melchor, Andrew Sarlo, Ethan Gruska and John Debold
vocals, guitar, bass by Adam Melchor
organ, ipad by Ethan Gruska
slide guitar by John Debold
drums by Andrew Sarlo
mixed by Andrew Sarlo
mastered by Chris Badami
artwork by Alonso Ruiz
recorded at Heavy Duty Studios
released by R&R Digital

I CHOOSE YOU

i originally came up with the idea of JEWEL after talking to my sister julie. my nickname for her has always been jul. i was living in pasadena and missing my family back in NJ. i talked to julie the day before a session. she was cheering me up by telling me everything would work out. she sounded so happy on the phone and when i asked she was telling me about how happy her boyfriend (now fiancé!) makes her. their love for each other has always been so true from the start, and i decided to write about it.

the next day, i brought this song and idea to nick at his house in LA. we got along to writing it in his kitchen. his neighbor has a very loud rooster and we kept talking about it throughout the day. when we got to the second verse, i said “this is gonna be about the rooster isn’t it” and nick just said “yes, yes it is” without even looking up.

i recorded this with andrew, ethan and john at heavy duty. we recorded everything to tape, and flipped the tape, so it would print out a backwards version of the song. we recorded the reversed print while the song was playing and it all felt like a dream.

alonso made this amazing artwork for the cover and the credits!! thank you to everyone involved for making this song a sonic dream. i feel very lucky to work with my heroes and having this some come out means the dang world to me 
༼ ༎ຶ ◡ ༎ຶ༽

JEWEL

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