Season Ammons

Everybody knows the heartbreak of loss, the dizzy thrill of new romance, the tingle of seduction and the anger of betrayal. But precious few can channel those feelings into a lyric that speaks straight to us all — and sing it with the passion that comes from taking the hard knocks and savoring the sweet reward that comes from living to the fullest.

Her writing on ‘Steel Hearts’ also took her somewhere she’d never been before. You can sense it on every one of these songs, even the one least like those that fill the rest of the album. Referring to the languorous, dreamy “Rainy Day Serenade,” Ammons notes, “I wrote it when I was living near the beach in Florida. I had the windows open, with a light rain falling on the palm trees and the roof. It was a perfect day to turn on Turner Classic Movies with the sound off. I had records going and tea brewing. I was reading a book. I didn’t want that day to go away, so I stayed in my pajamas and didn’t do anything that day — except to write this song.”

“This whole album is about all the facets of love: falling in love, falling out of love, being desperate, being seductive and finding love again,” Season says. “We constantly evolve in and out of love, with others and with ourselves. We grow as people. We don’t always love what we’ve done in the past. But we learn — and we begin by learning to love who we are wherever we have been and where we are in our lives.”