Releasing worldwide May 23, 2025! Put on a Happy Face - your favorite Joel Brogon song is being released! By far my most requested song at gigs, "Put on a Happy Face" is a lighthearted take on dealing with days that just don't go as planned. I've already released it on Bandcamp - here's the link! https://joelbrogon.bandcamp.com/track/put-on-a-happy-face-acoustic-version
" Trust the Trees" is a collection of three nature-based songs by Joel Brogon coming May 1st, 2024. Intentionally timed for release amidst Spring and the celebration of Earth Day, this project is meant to be an ode to our intrinsic bond with nature and a profound willingness to surrender to its guiding essence. Stories behind the songs: “Trust the Trees” The words “Trust the Trees" had been rolling around in my head for a while after a friend said them to me at a Winter Solstice gathering in 2021. I hadn’t really put much work into crafting a song around it but the thought of it was living in my head. Then, Uvalde (school shooting) happened. I was so shaken I couldn’t really even talk about it or much of anything else for several days and spent a lot of time sitting in silence in our back garden. Then one evening the line “we cannot be trusted, it’s time to trust the trees” came to me and the rest flowed from there. It was one of those rare occasions when a song was comp...
At the Rio Grande River overlook Sabal Palm Sanctuary Brownsville, Texas 2013 Please have a look at the video for "Here on the Rio Grande" HERE You can listen to "Here on the Rio Grande" anywhere you stream music - you can find all the links on my LINKTREE “Here on the Rio Grande” is my love letter to life along the river in deep South Texas. So often, the story told about this region is a negative one. But the place I know is one of stunning natural beauty, of deep peace and profound connection, where bonds of land, culture, and family endure and transcend borders. Sadly, my home is under constant strain, pressed by border wall construction, liquefied natural gas plant build-outs, the expansion of SpaceX, rapid population growth and development, and the looming promise of a massive oil refinery. Water is already scarce. Habitat loss is staggering, with less than five percent remaining. Endangered species who rely upon it face almost certain extinction. And now,...
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