Jerry Silverstein

After meeting Gina during the whirlwind of the tornado, we kept in touch and she made the decision that she was going to come to Nashville and throw herself into the music scene. Now I've known a lot of writers who have tentatively dipped their toes in the water in Nashville, but Gina is a force of nature. First, she rented a cottage on Music Row for the summer, which for those who have never been there, are the same unpretentious cottages that some of the major publishing companies use for their presence in Nashville. Secondly, in an age where people were still pitching songs on cassette tapes, Gina shipped a portable Pro Tools studio in a steamer trunk and was doing advanced digital editing on the spot. So, I booked a week in Nashville, knowing that I could make the rounds to publishers and friends and also write with Gina, and it was truly wonderful. The first song that we wrote was "Remind Me" which was based upon the shock of hearing that two of my close friends were getting divorced. As the song says, "They were the last ones I thought would be torn apart," These were two friends whose names were almost always merged as one and all of their friends viewed them as being inseparable. The song deals with how all of the other couples who knew them immediately questioned their own relationships. To this day the song is still hauntingly beautiful. Anyway, later on the day we were writing I had a publisher's appointment and when I returned, Gina had worked up the tracks and we recorded the demo. Amazingly, in the age of cassettes, we not only completed the demo but Gina burned a CD and we went to the Bluebird that night and handed it to the publisher. "Remind Me" will always have a special place in my heart.