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The Sky Above These Clouds Cover Art
Over the years I have done artwork and/ or design for musicians’ albums. This has been the case on several occasions with the Evanston-based singer-songwriter Jim Croegaert. I did art direction for Jim's latest album and for the first time used my photography. At one...
The Sky Above These Clouds – A Review
My best friend, Jim Croegaert, just released his eighth vocal album, The Sky Above These Clouds (2021)—his finest to date. You might think age would roughen his voice, (his company is Rough Stones Music, after all), but not yet. It’s clearer and smoother than ever, a...
Hiroshima
As I write this, it is seventy-five years since the Enola Gay dropped an atomic bomb on the city of Hiroshima, unleashing a destructive power unlike anything seen before – or since, thankfully, but for its terrible echo in Nagasaki two days after. A year or so after...
Why Do We Hunger For Beauty – Video
“Why Do We Hunger For Beauty” is among my favorites in songs I have composed. I love entering into it and revisiting the imagery and the questions it poses. Friendship with Tim and Sherrie Lowly, and daughter Temma, goes back to the years we were together at Reba...
First Easter
The very first Easter was not in a crowded worship space with singing and praising. On the very first Easter, the disciples were locked in their house. It was dangerous for them to come out. They were afraid. They were living in a time of such despair and such fear....
Jim Croegaert & Friends in Concert
Reba Place Church Meetinghouse 620 W. Madison Street Evanston IL 60202(View Map) A freewill offering for Christ in the Wilderness Retreat Center, Stockton, Illinois (CITWRetreat.com) will be taken.
Jim Croegaert at Sing Me High Music Festival
I will be appearing this Saturday, August 25, at the Sing Me High Music Festival in Virginia. I will have one set and Reunion Vocal Band will have a set. I have of course been part of RVB since its inception and it includes many of my favorite musicians, who have...
Jim Croegaert in Concert
Songs to Remind, Songs to Remember 10:30 AM, May 27, 2018, at: New Covenant Fellowship 124 W. White St. Champaign IL 61820 Website Info: ncf-cu.com Phone: (217) 355-2038
Tim Slevin – What I Remember
Introduction I met Tim as a high school freshman at Spalding Institute in Peoria, 1960. He possessed many important attributes, not the least of which was being able to mimic some very distinctive persons, notably our principal, Father Brown, as well as certain...
Benefit Concert for Friends of Habiba
Jim Croegaert and friends will perform a benefit concert for friends of Habiba - Bringing her family from Darfur to safety - on Saturday October 19, 2013 at Reba Place Church, 7:30 PM. Location 620 Madison St. (Corner of Custer, near Main St. El) in Evanston, IL - see...
Oklahoma
I wrote a song while serving with the Red Cross in Oklahoma in June, 2013 and recorded it recently. Tim Serban heads up Disaster Spiritual Care for the Red Cross and he put mine and others' photos with it, and posted it to YouTube. I've included the lyrics here as...
Vanguard Spiritual Services event
We will be presenting for Vanguard chaplains October 26, 2011, at West Suburban Medical Center, Oak Park, IL.