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everyday i fall in love
Penni Layne
Label: Upside
Released: 2026
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Tracks
fallin' in love coffee time everyday i fall in love no moon at all i wish you love this can’t be love on top of the world (feat. Larry Jackson) if i had you the best things happen when you’re dancing this time almost like being in love
Personnel
Penni Layne
vocals
Michael Kanan
piano
Neal Miner
bass, acousticGreg Ruggerio
guitarLarry Jackson
producerAdditional Personnel / Information
Produced by Larry Jackson & Penni Layne Song Arrangements by Larry Jackson, Penni Layne & Michael Kanan Recorded at Sear Sound, NYC Lead Engineer, Mixing & Mastering by Steven Sacco Recording Assistants - Maximilian Troppe & Mose Wheeler Graphics Design by Penni Layne & Luca fallin in love, everyday i fall in love, on top of the world & this time - written by Penni Layne & Larry Jackson.
Album Description
everyday i fall in love grew out of our love for songs that feel intimate, honest and lived-in. I’ve always found myself somewhere between soul and jazz, and with this record we wanted to make something that could live naturally in both worlds - a collection of songs about love in all its different forms, from that first rush of falling for someone to the quieter, deeper kind of love that keeps surprising you years later.
A few years ago, Larry and I were listening to a lot of Julie London. We loved the intimacy of her records - her phrasing, the restraint of the arrangements, the way everything had room to breathe. That became part of the impetus for making this album. We also had original songs we’d written together that we loved and wanted to give a home, and we started imagining them living alongside standards that had been part of our musical lives for years.
The record begins with one of those originals, “Fallin’ In Love.” There’s something wonderfully helpless about falling for someone - that moment when you realize you may already be in it before you’ve had a chance to decide whether you’re ready. It felt like the perfect doorway into the record.
“Coffee Time” has always felt like it was just there for me. I love its ease and its intimacy. There’s nothing grand about it - it’s two people, some coffee and time together - and somehow that makes it incredibly romantic. I love songs that find something meaningful in ordinary moments, and this one does exactly that.
Then comes “Everyday I Fall In Love,” the song that ultimately gave the album its name. Larry and I wrote it from a very real place: the idea that falling in love doesn’t have to be something that happens once. There can still be those little moments when you look at someone you’ve known and loved for years and see them differently, or they make you laugh, or you catch something in them that reminds you all over again why you chose each other. That idea became the heart of the record.
“No Moon at All” lets me go somewhere completely different. It’s sexy and playful and a little mischievous, and I love that about it. One of the joys of singing jazz is being able to inhabit all these different characters and moods without losing yourself inside them.
“I Wish You Love” brings in another kind of love entirely. It’s such a beautiful lyric because there’s tenderness in it, but also acceptance. Sometimes loving someone means wishing them well even when you’re no longer going to be part of where they’re headed. I love the generosity of that sentiment.
“This Can’t Be Love” is pure fun to me. There’s wit in the lyric and this wonderful contradiction at the center of it - this obviously can’t be love while everything about the song tells you that, of course, it probably is. I’ve always been drawn to songs that give me something to say rather than simply something to sing, and this one gives me plenty to play with.
“On Top of the World” is another song Larry and I wrote together, and this time he joins me vocally. That makes it especially personal. We’ve been making music together for so long that our musical relationship and our life together are pretty inseparable, and I love having a little piece of that relationship actually heard on the record.
“If I Had You” is one of those great declarations - the idea that if you have this person, suddenly the possibilities feel endless. There’s longing in it, but also tremendous optimism, and I love the sweep of that feeling.
“The Best Things Happen When You’re Dancing” brings us into this wonderfully buoyant, romantic world. Sometimes love doesn’t need to be analyzed to death. Sometimes you just need the music, the person standing across from you and a dance floor. There’s a lightness to the song that I really wanted on the album.
“This Time,” our fourth original, comes from a more vulnerable place. There’s hope in those words - this time - but there’s history in them too. You don’t say “this time” unless there have been other times, other hopes, other disappointments. I love that the song can hold both things at once: the fear that comes with opening yourself up again and the willingness to believe that maybe this really could be different.
And then we end with “Almost Like Being in Love,” which feels like the perfect place to leave things. It’s exuberant. Everything is brighter, everything feels possible, and you almost don’t want to admit what’s happening to you. After moving through so many different versions of love over the course of the record, I love ending there - back in that delicious rush of simply being alive and in love.
We recorded the album at Sear Sound in New York and produced it together. From the beginning, we knew we didn’t want to over-arrange it. We had ideas and a sense of where we wanted the songs to go, but we also knew who we were bringing into the room: Michael Kanan on piano, Neal Miner on upright bass and Greg Ruggiero on guitar.
Those three have such a deep shared musical language, and we trusted that. So rather than dictate every moment, we left room for everybody to listen and respond. The arrangements became something we all discovered together while we were playing. That was incredibly important to us. We wanted the record to breathe, and we wanted to preserve those little exchanges that can only happen when musicians are really listening to one another in real time.
It was also important to us that our four originals - “fallin’ in love,” “everyday i fall in love,” “on top of the world” and “this time” - not feel like separate pieces of the album. We wanted them to simply live among these standards we love. They’re part of the same conversation and, in many ways, tell different chapters of the same story.
I think that’s what this record became for us: a look at love from a lot of different places. New love. Old love. Flirtation. Longing. Vulnerability. Familiarity. Letting go. And that wonderful surprise of realizing you can know someone for a very long time and still find new reasons to fall in love with them.
We weren’t interested in trying to recreate another era. We wanted to take songs we love, put them in a room with musicians we trust, add our own songs to the conversation and see what happened.
everyday i fall in love is what happened.
Album uploaded by Larry Jackson / Penni Layne
