Friend Andrea

The song “Follow it” began at the Berwick Community Garden when young friend Lennox wanted to write a song about rain to rainbows:)  I'm so glad that she suggested it because it's not a topic I would have thought of there and it's now one of my favorite songs! 

We started this song with my normal group writing process- how does the topic make us feel, finding a chord that matches the feeling, starting to sing whatever comes up on the topic. Basically it's lots of experimenting with sounds and words, then checking in as a group to see if the pieces match our intention for the song. 

The original version of the song said “It's how I feel in the storm, in the rain, etc.” and as I refined the song later on it became “Here we are in the storm, the rain, etc.” It's really a ballad of getting through life's storms- because the rainbow is there waiting for us. 

A year later, when I started recording the Growing in Song series, Lennox came to my barn stall studio to record the rainstorm percussion. She did a fantastic job and it was an incredibly special moment for me to have her here working on a song that wouldn't have existed without her:)