Wild Honey by Fruit Bats

"Wild Honey" is a tribute to the songwriter Diane Izzo, who succumbed to brain cancer the day that Johnson began recording Tripper. The two had met over a decade before in Chicago's late 1990s music scene, where Izzo had a brief triumph with her debut album, One. Johnson had contributed to some of her later recordings, and they remained close and continued to talk about collaborating even after she moved to New Mexico. Johnson says that though he never intended to include a cover on Tripper, the song seemed to fit into his album's spectral, melancholy vibe. "I've always loved that song. It has a really spiritual, very Buddhist undercurrent to it," he adds. "It seemed like one of the best ways to honor her."