13 COLORING BOOK TIME TO GROW (Queenie Records 1993)
Coloring Book's "Time to Grow" should further the full-length's central theme of teenage amour, with lyrics such as, "Are you scared of how you make me feel / Stuck at the top of the Ferris wheel."
Coloring Book was formed in fall of 1991, when Jon, in another band at the time, decided he wanted to concentrate more on his own music. So Jon started working on some songs, playing with his guitar(s) and his 4-track recorder in his NYC apartment. Jen, who had just moved to New York, one day was roped into singing scratch vocals on one track while Jon was working on his music. Then Jen helped Jon work on some of his songs, agreed to "really" sing, and Coloring Book was off and running. The "band" needed a few more musicians in order to flesh out their sound, so they enlisted the help of Hamish and his friend Tony to play drums and bass, respectively. The four went into James' studio and, with his assistance, recorded four songs throughout winter '91/'92. Songs recorded: "Sand In My Shoes," "Walking Distance," "Time To Grow," "Gull Cottage." In spring of 1993, Jen and Jon moved to the Boston area, and their friend Chin-a released the record, a four-song 7" EP, on her newly-formed Queenie label. The record got a few good reviews, we sold a few, she sold a few, and that was the end of that for awhile. Over the next few years, Jen and Jon did very little, musically, performing a few times as Coloring Book, almost always aided by friend Stu on guitar.
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On March 22 2007
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