Billy Bowlegs / Red River

The album Walking in the Green Corn was inspired by Native American traditions and my own Muskogee Creek familial and tribal connection. Most of the songs were written on the cusp of 2011 and 2012. The subject matter remained so personally compelling, however, that I continued to fixate on this theme, even as the album was in production and well after it was released. “Red River,” a meditation on indigenous vitality, was one such song. I recorded two versions of the song in 2012 – one on guitar...