Garrison Bailey (Groove Kitties) released her Delicious album in 2013, following up in 2015 with an EP called Things That Go Boom.
Bailey went a long time between solo albums. “My last album was seven years ago, and money was always an issue,” said Bailey in summer 2022. “I also had moved to Pennsylvania for five years, and music was put on the back burner for a while. I work at UCSD and I oversee five morgues, plus all the fetal demise cases. It is not an easy job, and I needed to do something to lower my blood pressure and to get my mind out of grief for a while. I had enough money to have one song produced; instead, I decided I would buy the recording equipment and try to create an album on my own.”
The resulting album, Secret Superwoman, was created in a 250-square-foot apartment. “I emptied one side and made it my studio and the other half my ‘bedroom,’ and I sat down and started. I had never done this before and I had no preconceived notions about what kind of music would come out of me. I played, I sang, I wrote, I used loops, I Googled ‘how-to’ so much. I finally had ten songs finished and I put the CD in my car and drove all over the county listening, and I loved it.”