Forest Bathing is the seventh studio album by A Hawk and a Hacksaw.

[2] Prior to its release, the song "A Broken Road Lined With Poplar Trees" premiered on Under the Radar's website.

It's rural; songs of the woods and roads where there are no sidewalks or street lamps to light your way.

"A Broken Road lined with Poplar Trees" describes just this- the dirt from the summer sun, a melody from home on my tongue.

The song "Babayaga" by Trost, is a tribute to the archetypal crone Babayaga, who sticks out her cane just as a child runs by... And "The Washing Bear" is a classic brass romp, connecting Serbian brass with it's [sic] Southern brothers in Albania and Turkey..."[2] The band cites the Valle de Oro National Wildlife Refuge in New Mexico as "their forest bath of choice.