I was doing jazz gigs in town, and then I had started a band with Jesse Harris and Lee Alexander. Lee, I was playing bass. He played bass with me doing my jazz gigs. That's how I met him. And then Jesse is a songwriter and plays acoustic guitar, and he was an old friend. I started singing Jesse's songs, and then Lee started writing songs out of nowhere, beautiful songs. And then I started writing songs here and there. And so at these gigs, we would play at The Living Room, which is a little songwriter place in New York, do sort of all of our songs and throw in a couple covers, maybe a jazz standard as well. It was really my first experience sort of doing something of my own where I was singing that wasn't straight-up jazz. It was right around that time that somebody saw me play a jazz gig, because I was doing both things at the time, and brought me to Blue Note Records, and it ended up being kind of funny, because Bruce Lundvall, the head of Blue Note Records, when he heard my demo, I had two jazz standards and one song of Jesse's, and he said, Well, what do you want to do? Do you want to be a jazz singer or not? Or a pop singer? I was like, Oh no, jazz singer, jazz singer, because here I am at Blue Note Records. I didn't want him to turn me away. But then he gave us some money to make demos, because obviously I was very young, and I hadn't quite figured out my musical voice. And so he had me do these demos. I figured, well, we already know what it sounds like playing jazz. It's been done before. Let's try this new thing. So I brought this band I had been playing with at the time, which was Jesse Lee on bass, and a great drummer named Dan Reser, who's just kind of in town, and Jesse had known. And we recorded about seven or eight songs in a couple days. The first song we recorded was Don't Know Why, and it's a song of Jesse's. And it was a total experiment, these two-day sessions. The version of Don't Know Why that we got in those demos is the version on my first record that everybody heard. So it was like the very first moment of us trying this in the studio. It was a live take. It was all really quick.