(bright thoughtful music) - [Narrator] Performing this week on "Expressions", Ithaca singer-songwriter Evan Horne.

♪ Across the expanse of fathomless time ♪ ♪ She goes and come and goes ♪ ♪ A trembling old hand grazes a lantern and knows ♪ ♪ Witness ♪ ♪ Witness ♪ - [Narrator] All tonight, on "Expressions."

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- Hello, and welcome to "Expressions."

I'm your host, Adara Alston.

For tonight's episode, we are featuring a performance from singer-songwriter Evan Horne.

Originally from East Tennessee and now living in Ithaca, Evan's unique sound is like a walk through the woods, peaceful and contemplative, with new sounds around every bend on the trail.

All of the songs we hear tonight are from Evan's debut studio album, "Witness", and we start the show with "Foxfire."

(soft thoughtful music) ♪ Darling I have known you well ♪ ♪ All the tales that you can tell ♪ ♪ I followed as your shadow in the morning ♪ ♪ When your weary thoughts lose hold ♪ ♪ Down crooked trails of foxfire ♪ ♪ Will you recognize my face ♪ ♪ There ain't nothing to know, baby ♪ ♪ Ain't no need to try ♪ ♪ Deep enough to let go ♪ ♪ I am walking with you ♪ ♪ Always it was you and me ♪ ♪ There in deep green Tennessee ♪ ♪ With all the spirits calling from the valley ♪ ♪ Hemlock and the haloed white ♪ ♪ Rise before your second sight ♪ ♪ Suffering the trial before the treasure ♪ ♪ There ain't nothing to know, baby ♪ ♪ Ain't no need to try ♪ ♪ Deep enough to let go ♪ ♪ Feel me moving through you ♪ (lively thoughtful music) ♪ Swallow tails and hidden springs ♪ ♪ Spinning laughing as she sings ♪ ♪ Come and go with me to the gray mountain ♪ ♪ Where your story and your care cannot follow ♪ ♪ If you dare come with me ♪ ♪ To drink from the dark fountain ♪ ♪ There ain't nothing to know, baby ♪ ♪ Ain't no need to try ♪ ♪ Deep enough to let go ♪ ♪ Light enough to fly ♪ (gentle thoughtful music) ♪ Spring rains are raising the creek from the dry rock ♪ ♪ Swirling around ♪ ♪ The Roaring Fork river, the Cumberland whisper ♪ ♪ The bluebells are blooming ♪ ♪ I tell them I am leaving ♪ ♪ I will find that old story down under the ground ♪ ♪ In the morning they rise, open their eyes and I am nowhere ♪ ♪ Stay close, stay close ♪ ♪ Stay close to me ♪ ♪ I am ever within the beautiful day that I was struck down ♪ ♪ At the end of your street with prayers of defeat ♪ ♪ Well, I have grown weary now ♪ ♪ The way through the woods that hid me from this ♪ ♪ That I would have time ♪ ♪ The falling water door to the cavern that showed ♪ ♪ The mask on my face ♪ ♪ Stay close, stay close ♪ ♪ Stay close to me ♪ (gentle thoughtful music) ♪ The ghost trail we followed through thorn and rust ♪ ♪ From glory to dust ♪ ♪ Across from old Thief Neck ♪ ♪ Through vespers and through violence ♪ ♪ Well, it's all gone now ♪ ♪ The spring rains are raising the creek from the dry rock ♪ ♪ Swirling around ♪ ♪ The Roaring Fork river, the Cumberland whisper ♪ ♪ The bluebells are blooming ♪ ♪ Stay close, stay close ♪ ♪ Stay close to me ♪ ♪ Stay close, stay close to me ♪ (soft thoughtful music) ♪ Said the wild dog, ooh ♪ ♪ Outside the window ♪ ♪ I remember long ago when you were hungry ♪ ♪ Said the wild dog, ooh ♪ ♪ I remember you used to sleep without a dream ♪ ♪ You did not need that devil's fire long ago ♪ ♪ When you were running with me ♪ ♪ Said the wild dog, ooh ♪ ♪ Outside the window ♪ ♪ Do you remember the mountain talking ♪ ♪ Do you remember the black wind roaring up from the south ♪ ♪ I remember you were looking at me ♪ ♪ With blood in your mouth ♪ (mysterious thoughtful music) ♪ How long have you been here with your belly full ♪ ♪ And your fear ♪ ♪ Sister, hey you know it's only thunder ♪ ♪ Was it worth it ♪ ♪ Was it worth it ♪ ♪ Said the wild dog, ooh ♪ ♪ Outside the window ♪ ♪ I remember, I remember ♪ ♪ I remember, I remember ♪ ♪ When you were hungry ♪ - Evan Horne and his band with "When You Were Hungry", here on "Expressions."

For this performance, Evan is joined on stage by a trio of seasoned musicians, percussionist Aaron Walters, pianist Emmett Scott, and bassist Michael Schuler.

To learn more about the group, you can visit evanhornemusic.com.

Now let's get back to the show.

Here is "Murder on TV."

(lively expectant music) ♪ Murder on TV, awake all night ♪ ♪ Riding the spiral down ♪ ♪ Murder on TV, awake all night ♪ ♪ Running out the drug ♪ ♪ Murder in a joke, laughing out loud ♪ ♪ Staring straight ahead ♪ ♪ Murder in a joke, laughing out loud ♪ ♪ I'm getting used to it ♪ (jazzy thoughtful music) ♪ Murder in my sleep, standing in the rain ♪ ♪ Lights flashing all around ♪ ♪ Murder in my sleep, standing in the rain ♪ ♪ That body on the ground ♪ (lively expectant music) ♪ Taste the air swept over ashes ♪ ♪ A lush, late season ♪ ♪ Delicate, steady, sung through soft meadows ♪ ♪ Hidden, golden, and still ♪ ♪ Falling to you, the teeming green shimmers ♪ ♪ Eddies, turns, flows ♪ ♪ Reeds sway, hollow ♪ ♪ Witness ♪ ♪ Witness ♪ ♪ Stand before the tree of ancestors ♪ ♪ They judge you like the dawn ♪ ♪ A moment of strange and terrible wonder ♪ ♪ How they grimace, how they revel ♪ ♪ Across the expanse of fathomless time ♪ ♪ She goes and comes and goes ♪ ♪ Her trembling old hand raises a lantern and knows ♪ ♪ Witness ♪ ♪ Witness ♪ ♪ I, I, I, I, I, I, I ♪ ♪ I, I, I, I, I, I, I ♪ ♪ Low is the sun now at the crossroads ♪ ♪ Whether or not you know how or why ♪ ♪ Veiled in crimson, grandmothers singing ♪ ♪ Fall to your knees and cry ♪ ♪ Witness ♪ - Evan Horne performing "Witness", the title track to his 2025 record.

We'll be returning to the stage for one more song shortly, and a reminder that you can see more of this show by going to wskg.org/expressions.

We end the program with a solo rendition of "My Love Flows."

Thanks so much for watching.

I'm Adara Alston, goodnight.

♪ I know this world, it ain't what it seems ♪ ♪ I have dreamt the dream of dying ♪ ♪ Beloved, where they laid me down ♪ ♪ I heard your woeful sighing ♪ ♪ Forgive me dear if from down here I'm crying overmuch ♪ ♪ I recall how I built the wall that crumbled at your touch ♪ ♪ Mm ♪ ♪ I was born under the banner of an imaginary crown ♪ ♪ Delivered to the loving hands that taught me to bow down ♪ ♪ I fell before my mother's grief, I trembled in my fear ♪ ♪ So inclined to lose my mind just to get me out of here ♪ ♪ I, get me out ♪ ♪ I stumbled down to Honey Creek ♪ ♪ I learned to speak like water ♪ ♪ Cursing at the mighty cross that called away my father ♪ ♪ I heard the prayer upon those lips ♪ ♪ Pour promises into my cup ♪ ♪ But no matter how much I drank ♪ ♪ You know, it did not fill me up ♪ ♪ Hey I, did not fill me up ♪ ♪ Ooh, mm ♪ ♪ Yeah, mm ♪ ♪ In time so cruel, you came to find me ♪ ♪ Talking to the embers ♪ ♪ The sinking and the hollow sound only you remember ♪ ♪ I followed as you disappeared among those poplar trees ♪ ♪ I close my eyes, I see you now ♪ ♪ My love, my love flows, mm ♪ ♪ I'll wake you up, I let you know that you are home ♪ ♪ Home, home ♪