“Evelyne” is a song I wrote for Earth Day in 2024. What I imagined was Earth singing to us and I imagined that she called us Evelyne. It's a love song, full of Earth's longing for humanity.
We all know "The Star-Spangled Banner" and have our own relationship with it depending on where we heard or sang it first, and all the ways we've heard it since. When the pianist Jay Hogan asked me to sing his new arrangement, I said yes, but also told him I wasn't the song's biggest fan. It's a hard one to sing, first of all, but it also puts bombs and rockets at the center of our national identity. My preference would have been to put our beauty, our generosity, and our big hearts in that space instead. But as I learned the song -- researched its history, read additional verses, and did the homework that goes into recording a song -- I came to respect it. Singing it this way has opened my eyes to its power. (September 2025)
Roen Hogg took it upon himself to make a video using my song “The Current” as the soundtrack. Take a look. It's mesmerizing what he photographed on the Pacific Coast.
Bill Gillette was a renowned photographer who carried his camera everywhere. When he died, I put together photographs he'd given me permission to use and added a few of mine to make a slide show in his honor. It's meant to offer a few minutes of beauty and solace.
I loved making this video! This was recorded in my Woodstock studio in 2007 (I think) singing “Set the World on Fire” with my friends Kirsti Gholson, Peter Tomlinson, and Lou Pappas. Chris Kerr used his handheld camera and, wow, what a generous, careful, loving job he did.