To Tell the Truth (album)

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To Tell the Truth
To Tell The Truth LP cover.jpg
Studio album by
ReleasedAugust 26, 2016
Genre
Length42:03
Label Jaymay Music
Producer Jaymay, Jay Foote, Philip Mohn
Jaymay chronology
10UNDER2 EP
(2012)
To Tell the Truth
(2016)
Fallin' Like Snow
(2016)

To Tell the Truth is the second full-length album by Jaymay, released in 2016. [1]

Contents

The thirteen songs on this album are about Jaymay's personal struggles during the preceding few years, including intense pain from Crohn's disease that forced her to cancel her 2013 tour, and the death of her developmentally disabled sister, Cassie, for whom "Cassie's Song" is named. A percentage of the funding for the album that Jaymay raised through PledgeMusic was donated to The Center for Discovery in Monticello, New York, where Cassie went to school. [2]

The album's cover image is of glass tiles arranged in a "TTTT" pattern, which was photographed at the beach at the end of the street on which Jaymay lived as a child. [3]

Critical reception

Popdose called the songs on the album "simply sweet and well-constructed" and that Jaymay "clearly has the goods as a singer and songwriter." [4] Bust Magazine rated the album 3 out of 5, saying that "Jaymay’s evolution as an artist continues, as she excavates her emotional pain for artistic fuel." [5]

Track listing

All songs written by Jaymay, except where indicated

  1. "Baby, Maybe One Day" – 2:38
  2. "I Was Only Lovin' You" – 2:54
  3. "To Tell the Truth" – 4:03
  4. "Never Weep" (adapted from "For Una" by Robinson Jeffers) – 3:25
  5. "Just Got Over You" – 2:10
  6. "Enlighten Me" – 7:07
  7. "I Stand Up for Me" – 3:28
  8. "Today & Tmoro" – 3:30
  9. "Cassie's Song" – 3:35
  10. "For Goodness Sake" – 1:54
  11. "Singin' of the Birds" – 2:14
  12. "There Are Red Roses" – 3:07
  13. "We Say Goodbye" – 2:04

Personnel

Musicians
Production

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