It'll Never Happen Again Jeff Larson

• 1 Reason to Believe 02:25
• 2 It'll Never Happen Again 02:30
• 3 If I Were a Carpenter 02:15
• 4 Don't Make Promises 02:31
• 5 Misty Roses 02:07
• 6 How Can We Hang On 02:10
• Total Runtime 13:58

Info for It'll Never Happen Again

Singer-songwriter Jeff Larson does an exceptional job shedding new light on classic material from legendary troubadour Tim Hardin. Everyone from Rod Stewart and Bob Seger to Johnny Cash have covered Hardin’s catalog. And Larson is right up there with the best of them. He stridently captures the honest and conflicting sentiment of “Don’t Make Promises You Can’t Keep”, and his take on “Misty Roses” is dreamy and wistful. “How Can We Hang On To a Dream” has an engaging baroque feel.

Jeff Larson

Produced by Gerry Beckley

Jeff Larson
is a veteran singer-songwriter from the San Francisco Bay area. Musically, Jeff got his start under the wing of producer Elliot Mazer (Neil Young, The Band) playing in clubs and venues throughout the Bay area. As a native Californian, the influences are obviously present and reach from the golden era of L.A.’s Laurel Canyon singer-songwriter scene to the Bay area’s musical heritage and the tension between the two. While remaining a solo artist, he’s collaborated with Gerry Beckley and Dewey Bunnell of America, Chicago’s Robert Lamm, John Blakeley of The Sandals, and Eagles songwriter Jack Tempchin, among others. His prolific body of work created over the years has been released by various means and labels with licensing opportunities with JVC Victor Japan, Universal / Rhino, BMG and others from The Netherlands to Japan.

In 2014, Jeff expanded his musical activity to include audio production. This turned out to be a natural step; he’d been a recording artist in various studios since the age of 15 and later worked in technology in the Silicon Valley. These worlds would collide in the modern recording process. Since then, he worked on several archival albums and some new recordings by America. He engineered and edited archival projects for legacy acts such as The Beach Boys with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra (UMG), Buddy Holly, Roy Orbison, and currently, new solo efforts by Jack Tempchin and Gerry Beckley. Jeff is the Producer of the upcoming (2023) America release Live from the Hollywood Bowl 1975 on Sun Records.

In 2021, longtime friend Gerry Beckley approached Jeff to record a cover of the Tim Hardin song "It'll Never Happen Again.” This initial effort spawned an additional five Hardin covers and resulted in a six-song EP, It'll Never Happen Again, due in early 2023. A new solo album is also in the works, his first since 2014, out in the fall of 2023 on new Nashville-based label Melody Place.

It'll Never Happen Again was produced, arranged and mixed by Gerry Beckley and features first single “Reason to Believe,” It'll Never Happen Again,” “If I Were A Carpenter,” Don't Make Promises,” “Misty Roses,” and How Can We Hang On To A Dream.” Larson (on lead vocals and acoustic guitar) is musically joined by Beckley (piano, acoustic and electric guitars, organ, accordion, strings bass, drums) and an array of fine musicians including Joachim Cooder (electric mbira, drums, percussion) and Matt Combs (mandola, fiddle). The EP was recorded at studios in Sydney, Australia and Southern California.

This album contains no booklet.