You're listening to Song Exploder,
where musicians take apart their songs and piece by piece tell the story of how they were made.
I'm Rishikesh Hirway.
Last year, Vagabond released her third album,
Sorry I Haven't Called, which I've been listening to a lot.
So I wanted to revisit an episode that I recorded with her back in 2020 about her breakout song,
Water Me Down.
The episode also features the voice of Eric Littman, who co-produced the track.
He passed away in June 2021.
Way too young.
Vagabond's new album is dedicated to him.
If you haven't heard this episode before, I hope you like it.
When Leticia Tamco started making the second Vagabond album,
she really wanted to produce the entire thing on her own.
It would be a new sound, and producing was still a relatively new skill for her,
but she wanted to tackle it head-on and do it all herself.
On this song, though, Water Me Down, Leticia actually had a co-producer, Eric Littman.
It's the one exception to her otherwise entirely self-produced album.
In this episode,
she breaks down how she and Eric collaborated to make the song and why it was worth making that exception.