In the fall of 2004, Team Love's two founders travelled from NY City to Martha's Vineyard to meet a young Willy Mason. He was still in high school, but his songs were starting to pop up on local radio, and Team Love was keen to make the young man's acquaintance....leading to his debut album Where The Human's Eat (TL02). But, there is another story to tell of that trip and that's of the kid's mother, Jemima James. Willy explained that his parents had left New York after becoming disillusioned with the 1970s folk scene. I've been on and off writing, playing, and recording ever since [the early 70s], and now I'm 65. I've been a prep cook, preschool teacher, maid, caterer, counter girl, and have taken care of old people, which I still do. Years passed after Team Love's trip to Martha's Vineyard. Willy followed his own path, but kept in touch, 'til one day he called about Longview Farm. It was a studio back in the 70s and 80s, and his mother Jemima had worked there. She was then 27. She'd spent time with John Belushi there, and she'd made eggs in the morning for J Geils Band, Tim Curry, Arlo Guthrie, Pat Metheny, Paul Winter, The Rolling Stones, Bill Graham, and others. She also carried on writing songs and recorded an album that never saw the light of day. So, back to that call Willy made to Team Love. He told the whole story, about Longview Farm, about how his mother had gotten her hands on those tapes, how there was an album, a brilliant collection of her original songs that was needing a home. And there was more. A new album was in the works too, songs that carried on Jemima's story, songs about age, about looking back, about experience and love and friendship and new beginnings. Jemima tells us how the story looks now: In the fall of 2016, Team Love Records will release two of my records on a double album. The 1979 album At Longview Farm and When You Get Old, which I recorded in October 2015 at Old Soul Studio in Catskill, New York, with my band, Good Night Louise. Team Love is enormously proud to present to you these two bodies of work, and to introduce you to one of America's great voices
