So psyched on this! Regram: @augustgreeneband: "About a year ago I told Karriem and Rob “ “Let’s get in the Studio and just cook up” not knowing what the project we ere embarking on I was just Inspired to make music with these brothers. And of course we couldn’t go in without Burniss(Boom) on bass and we had invited one of our new found compadres Samora Pinderhughes. These 2 or 3 day sessions were embodied with Fun, Creativity, Chord Progressions and sometimes wack freestyles( Thanks Rob) ha ha But somewhere during the course of this Creative Excursion. Rob Karriem and I decided to form a group and we chose the name August Greene. This whole group thing got me excited and it took the ceiling off anything I thought before and we just made music. The way we all were born to do the way we all love to do. Speaking of Love it was one session we were in the live room and we were discussing music and the song “Optimistic” came up in the conversation And we all talked about how it was one of our favorite songs ever created. “ well let’s do a remake of it” “we need to do a remake of it “ I repeated. So with no ceiling and no restrictions we just went in and recreated the song. But wait I forgot to mention we were thinking who could sing this song or should we get multiple vocalist to do it. Rob said let’s see if Brandy will do it. She just so happens to be one of the greatest voices of all time and her vocal abilities are nothing but Divine So we went into Electric Lady and redid Optimistic in our own way but honoring the original for how potent incredible and moving it is. This was Created as a A Gospel song but transcended in the 90s into every arena club church or wedding you could find. We found ourselves inspired and excited about the song and I am very very excited to be releasing today through Amazon music as the 1st single from our Upcoming August Greene Albumn. I hope y’all enjoy and feel Inspired. Because there is no time greater than now to be Optimistic. -@common #beoptimistic2018 #augustgreene #amazonmusic #optimistic" #recordedatelectriclady (at Electric Lady Studios)