Potion and Baby Blue

For the first time this year, I forgot to mention release days on this page. Easing out of our current social strategy definitely had something to do with that, as I’ve been less focused on sharing information about what’s going on. Lately I’ve been on a big just do it kick. Here’s a little piece about each of the tracks that have come out this month.

Potion is another track that took years to come out. Zane gave me the instrumental years ago, and then one day while Un and I were working on the Wu-Tang show we wrote some verses to it. There were a few periods of downtime throughout the run of the show when we would be able to take a few days to get back to our own ideas, and though we didn't know it at the time, all those days made it possible to put out as much music as we have this year by providing a backlog of content to refine. We opened it back up earlier this year and rewrote my verse and the hook, added a few layers and came out with a pretty cool funky tune. New Hippies forever.

Baby Blue is a song I wrote mostly sitting on the floor, feeling sad and trying to convince myself things will get better. Life’s like that sometimes. I really love this song, and I think it embodies the essence of Roe’s Garden pretty well. Sad and sweet, hoping for the best. Erica sang the hook really nicely, Understanding put a very sincere verse on it and Bryana did, in my opinion, one of her best collages yet for the cover. Hope that song makes you feel a little better one day.

-J.P.