We loved this even before we knew the album
is called "Cigarettes & Gasoline." You may have heard Emerson
Hart's new single, "If You're Gonna Leave," on the radio and
thought: isn't that voice familiar? Emerson Hart was the
lead singer for Tonic, the band that came out with the chart-topping "If
You Could Only See." Remember: "if you could only see the
way she loves me, maybe you would understand...if you could only see how
blue her eyes can be when she says, when she says she loves
me."
Well, Emerson Hart is back, with a debut
solo album, and this is the latest song from the album. We love
it!! Hart says that the album proved "freeing and education in the
way that I had to learn to again trust my instincts above what is
best. That was the greatest experience for me in making this
record; I learned to trust myself as a writer." The album is also
about his father's murder when he was a boy living in New
Jersey.
"This record, I had to address those issues
before I moved on," he says on his website, "so I had to forgive those people who
killed my father and let that go...it refers to an olfactory sense from
my childhood - my dad smoking Marlboro Reds and getting gas in Jersey; I
remember sitting in the back of his 'Caddy, and the smell of that, and
his arm up on the armrest and him smoking, early memories for
me."
Emerson wrote this song, "If You're Gonna
Leave." An artist with real talent who writes his own songs - they
still exist! We're going out and buying this album,
stat.
