Everything Here Will Be Fine

Album: Mindy Smith (2012)
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  • On the title track of her 2004 debut album, One Moment More, Americana singer Mindy Smith sang about wanting more time with her late mother, who died of breast cancer in 1991. On her fifth, self-titled album, she remembers reassuring her ailing mother it was okay to let go in "Everything Here Will Be Fine."

    "I was thinking about how it must've felt for her to have to say goodbye and not want to let go," Smith told Songfacts in 2022. "Just reflecting back on that, where maybe sometimes you have to subtly let people know it's ok. People need to know it's ok and you're gonna be alright. I can't speak for other people, I can only speak for my personal experience. It took me a long time to get to that point in my life where I told her it was ok. At that time, it was just me processing once again, letting her know - because I feel like she shows up and drops little hints and signs. It was important for me to process that and say it out loud. And that's where that song came from."
  • Mindy Smith was the singer's first independently released album after parting ways with Vanguard Records, a jazz label based in New York City. It was produced by Jason Lehning, the same producer who suggested her for the Dolly Parton tribute album back when Smith was an up-and-comer in Nashville. She covered "Jolene" to great acclaim on the 2003 project, which helped her land the record deal with Vanguard.

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