NEW SINGLE: Silk Robe, Garden Flowers OUT NOW
Friday July 7th, 2023 - Silk Robe, Garden Flowers will be available everywhere for digital streaming and download
ABOUT THE SONG:
A fleeting, dreamlike experience in a garden, wandering in the morning after a fresh rain, the smell of wet flagstones, this is the setting for Silk Robe, Garden Flowers, a song about inevitable change, loss, and a relationship grown estranged. As the deluge of spring and its flowers give way to the heat of another California summer, delicate gardens, left untended, become overgrown and wild with brambles. In this song, we find that the protagonist’s romance has changed, much like the garden they wander through. The chorus is dominated by an existential question; in the striving for more, did we lose what we had? It concludes with certainty, yes, “something” is indeed gone. Still, the driving rhythm of the song propels us forward, signifying movement, and as this scene fades into the distance, we are afforded only a quick glance back as if through a rearview mirror. Life rolls on, garden flowers wither, and, as the protagonist of the song realizes, “love’s turned to brambles, growin' wild”.
This song is a co-write between Joe and Alana Amram, daughter of legendary composer David Amram. The two have collaborated previously on the song Lost Along The Way, which appears on Joe’s debut album from 2021, Meadow Rock. The instrumental performances and arrangement here are in part an homage to the Flying Burrito Brother’s Rick Roberts era and "blue" album. Joe produces, engineers, and mixes music at his studio, Mountain Sounds Recorders in Los Angeles, CA.
CREDITS:
Silk Robe, Garden Flowers is Joe Bourdet's first follow up to the Meadow Rock album.
Written by Joe Bourdet and Alana Amram
(Mountain Sounds ASCAP, Alanasaurus Rex SESAC)
Will Scott - Drums
Connor Catfish Gallaher - Pedal Steel Guitar
Joe - Guitars, Bass, Fuzzy Slide Guitar, Vocals, Producer/Engineer
Recorded at Mountain Sounds Recorders, Los Angeles, CA
Photo by Leigh Miller
Artwork Design/Layout Justin Hawkins
(c)2023
Special thanks to Will Scott for his support, friendship, and for chasing down the just right rhythm feel for this song with his fantastic drumming. Also to Connor Catfish Gallaher for his fantastic pedal steel performance.
Thanks to you for listening, and for supporting independent artists like us.
All the very best,
-JB
TECHNICAL NOTES:
Recorded digitally at a native resolution of 24/96k, the session was mixed down to 1/4” half track analog tape (RTM SM900) on a modified Otari MTR-10 tape machine. The mix was then recaptured to digital at 24/192k for mastering, and is made available to the listener in that resolution.
LYRICS:
While the nightbird’s callin’
A voice that’s high but fallen
I’m awake as you lay sleepin’
Wonderin’ what thoughts you’re keepin’
Footsteps across the flagstones
I follow as the morning light shone
All around the rain is drying’
You’re lost and crying’ like a child
When you got everything that you wanted,
did you lose some of what you had?
Some of the things that you longed for,
are they the things that are making you sad?
Something you thought that you had, is gone..
Take my hand and lead me somewhere
Take me from this place I don’t care
A road paved with good intention
We travelled in the wrong direction
Silk robe and garden flowers
Minutes past that felt like hours
Standin’ in that garden known’
Love’s turned to brambles, growin’ wild
Na na na na na nah
Na na na na na nah
When you got everything that you wanted,
did you lose some of what you had?
Now some of the things that you longed for,
are they the things that are making you sad?
Something you thought that you had, is gone..
When you got everything that you wanted,
did you lose some of what you had?
Now some of the things that you longed for,
are they the things that are making you sad?
Something you thought that you had, is gone..