Northernland- Jess Jocoy & Elexa Dawson

Inspired by the earth Mother, who births us, sustains us, and to which we all return. 

Song, vocals and rhythm guitar by Elexa Dawson
Keyboard and percussion by Adam Stanley
Lead guitar, engineering and mastering by Isaac Nelson

Recorded at Remote Studios, Wellston, OK December 23, 2016

Mother

Gotta see that to believe that . 
Damn shawty so fly , baby I, I been needin yo call back, 
withdrawin gon relapse 
Ohh you so damn fine baby. 
I’ve been up and down, left n right , Hittin the side lately 
Had No time da vibe 
Had no kind I like  
Still been more den high 
Cornered like I’m mike 
But You so Devine 
Finna break the tie from the free throw line 
I don’t need no free shots ima take what’s mine. 
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THE WORLD (Extended Version) - ft. Witko

-The Buffalo Gals, Zephaniah Stringfield & Peter Oviatt play KNCE 93.5 Taos- Juancho invited us in Sunday, February 18th, 2018 for a little hoot 'n' holler on Hambone Radio. (Slightly condensed)

Songs we played: 00:13 Bluegills (R. Patek), 04:20 My Baby Don't Like Me No More (M. Carper), 07:38 Hi Hi (R. Patek), 11:17 Down Here At The Farm (Z. Stringfield), 14:28 New Mexico Home (Z. Stringfield), 18:30 All I Need Is A Little Christian Girlfriend (M. Carper), 22:17 Pitfall Gals (Z. Springfield), 25:32 Angeline the Baker (trad.).

The Buffalo Gals, Zephaniah Stringfield & Peter Oviatt play KNCE 93.5 Taos

Sinners and Saints

Maria

Moonflower

Dream of the Butterfly

This song got cut from the Elephant Revival album "It's Alive" but it is dear to my heart and a lovely representation of the light hearted, bluegrass side of the band. I wrote it at the Crooked Crow songwriting camp with my dear friend Bryan Hembree. May it remind you that Spring will arrive...and new things will be born!

Not quite final

Novel Of New

Fallin'

This song came to me in the van after a trip to Pokagon Band Potawatomi territory in Dowagiac, Michigan where I attended the Indigenous Foods Summit. It was a four day stay with people that I really had only met once or twice before. I was nervous about finding a way to fit into an existing tight-knit circle of people who are doing this really good work to revive indigenous foods and life ways. I was feeling a little self-conscious. As I left that place, I was overwhelmed with gratitude at how welcomed I had been made to feel. It hit me that no good relationship is a threat to another. Everyone can belong in the circle because the circles just keep widening and overlapping and this is how this good work is going to get done.

I think the meaning of this song really speaks for itself. I'm very glad that we got the male voices of Peter Oviatt and Kelby Kimberlin on that first song.

Music is Medicine

Circle Song

"Are they windows?" (asks Sebastian) 
"Barley sidewalks," (says Elizabeth)
Thru the streetlight 
             constellations. 

Is it Friendship or merely pizza?
Circumstances were undeserved. 

HYDRO_planing 
        along Suicide Curve. 
The night is standing still. 
  I'm slipping by my Window SeaL.

becoming a voodoo doll 
up on Surrealberry, up on "Surrealberry HiLL"   (E. Sontheimer)


Egyptian Book of the Dead:

"PRISTINE! MAKE ME STRONG 
AGAINST THE SLAYER OF MY FATHER!
I HAVE OBTAINED 
POWER OVER THE 2 EARTHS. 
BIND UP MY VERTEBRAE NUT!!"

i guess it was just pizza anyway. you took a slice and walked away.
Introverted
asshole 
in an 
isolated chamber, 

the only member, 
feeling the window pane. And if you're hurting, we all are hurting. The air is broken. 
100 degrees... we have to Open!!

Headlights crashlanding along Suicide Curve. 
The night is standing still.  I'm slipping by my 
Window SeaL. 
 
becoming a voodoo doll 
  up on Surrealberry, up on "Surrealberry HiLL,"      (E. Sontheimer)

Surrealberry HiLL

Original Songwriting
Professional Entertainment
Studio Vocalist
Guitar & Mandolin
​2019 First People's Fund Fellow

Elexa Dawson presents a sultry, spirited performance with original music and a "warm honey mixed with prairie dirt" voice. Her newest album, "Music is Medicine" released December 6th, 2019.

The founding member of Kansas' folk homegrown favorite, Weda Skirts, Elexa is a born entertainer and skilled songwriter. Two albums self-produced by The Skirts (Many Moons - 2016, Mother - 2018) present a collection of songs that are influenced by her Potawatomi and Oklahoma heritage, nature, family, love and loss, all with a hopeful and heartfelt tone.

Elexa performs solo, with a blue folk trio and with Weda Skirts at private and public events, gatherings, pubs, and campfires.

Circle Song

Elexa Dawson

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