Oh Mary

We’re huge JJ Cale fans, and one of the things he mastered was simplicity – that ability to make something feel completely effortless while every note is actually incredibly measured and controlled underneath it. People think that kind of playing is easy until they try to do it themselves. Oh Mary was definitely influenced by that philosophy musically. Lyrically too, the song reveals a little more each time you sit with it. On the surface, it can feel like a simple lost-love story, but underneath it, there’s this quieter idea that people move through each other’s lives in different ways; some connections lasting, others temporary, but all of them leaving something behind. One of my favourite lines in the song is: ‘With every new morning, there will be another past.