Season 6 intro:

I know Stevie through Stella Martenez.  He sang in Season 3.  There was something special about revisiting all the folks I'd met the year before.  It gave a bit of permanence and continuity to the project, and seeing them play on a river in spring instead of a river in winter made me feel a sense of rebirth.

Stevie was the first New Mexico tinyboatsession where I moved from the picturesque protected oxbow of the river into the equally picturesque but more exposed main channel.  This change proved to have its own kind of challenges and its own kind of beauty.  The river was moving swiftly, but so shallow it wasn’t possible to have a person in the canoe and actually float.  But it was the desert and if there were going to be songs in tinyboats on the Rio Grande a few allowances were going to be made.  The sandbar and the braids of the river lined with cottonwoods were a lovely stage and the beautiful slice of the rocky sandias in the background made it a gorgeous outdoor apatheater.

I remember in  Season 3 Stevie sang a song so beautiful I cried.  This second time around he sang a song that made me laugh.

Season 3 intro:

Stevie was another one of Stella’s friends. He showed up with Paul. What I liked was that while they did not know each other, they knew a lot of the same people, and a little red canoe had brought them together. He brought a banjo with a line drawing of an ax and a peace pipe with the words “Let Hope Arise." Below the strings were stains of red. It was blood. Stephen played till he bleeds. One of the things I have started to observe and admire is the comradery and support among musicians. After Paul finished. Stephen complimented him and quipped a compliment that would be a tough act to follow. Then Stephen got into the boat and played a few songs. One of them made me cry. I find it hard to hold the camera still when laughing or crying, and in a twenty-minute period, I'd experienced both. -Jordan and Clarabelle