Emmylou Harris - God Is God (Steve Earle cover) - Sweet Relief: A Night To Honor Joan Baez - 4K

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Emmylou Harris plays a cover of the Steve Earle song "God Is God" live in concert before a sold-out crowd at The Masonic Auditorium in San Francisco, California on February 8, 2025. God Is God originally appeared on Joan Baez's 25th studio album, Day After Tomorrow (2008)--which was produced by Steve Earle--and later on Earle's 14th studio album, I'll Never Get Out Of This World Alive (2011). Joining Harris onstage were Joe Henry (guitar), David Piltch (bass), Gabe Harris (drums), Greg Leisz (pedal steel guitar), and Jason Crosby (keyboards / fiddle). This was a special one-night benefit concert called Sweet Relief Presents: A Night To Honor Joan Baez. To donate to the Sweet Relief Musicians Fund, visit https://www.sweetrelief.org/general-fund.html.

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Official Show Announcement:

Sweet Relief Musicians Fund announces an upcoming benefit concert, celebrating the legacy of legendary folk singer Joan Baez, on February 8, at Masonic Auditorium in San Francisco. Confirmed performers include Joan Baez, Emmylou Harris, Hozier, Rosanne Cash, Margo Price, Bonnie Raitt, Tom Morello, Joe Henry, Lucinda Williams, Taj Mahal with surprise guests and additional performers to be announced shortly.

Joan Baez has endured as a musical force of nature for over six decades, with an unwavering commitment to social activism and the arts. Her classic early 1960s folk recordings attracted a generation who carried songs like “House Of the Rising Sun” and “Babe, I’m Gonna Leave You” into the rock lexicon. She was inducted into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame in 2017. Though Baez stopped touring in 2019, she has been the subject of the film, I Am The Noise, and has released a book of drawings, Am I Pretty When I Fly?, and a book of poetry, When You See My Mother, Ask Her To Dance.

Emmylou Harris shares “So happy to be a part of celebrating my dear friend Joan Baez!" Aric Steinberg, Executive Director at Sweet Relief Musicians Fund adds, “We’re beyond thrilled to celebrate 30 years of Sweet Relief while honoring the great Joan Baez and her amazing career. Joan has supported our charity for many years, and it’s a privilege to honor her this year alongside so many incredible artists. It will be a night to remember and I’m so grateful to Joan and all of the performers who will help ensure that our music community continues to have Sweet Relief as a resource for emergency financial assistance.”

"Joan Baez is a mountain on our landscape, and has been for the entirety of my lifetime. As much as any artist I know, she has dismantled the wall between public artistry and personal conviction—investing each with the other, to create a body of work that, in the words of Woody Guthrie, "comforts the disturbed and disturbs the comfortable.” Musical Director, Joe Henry, adds and continues, “What a singular honor, then, for all us to gather in honor of her —and to benefit the heroic organization Sweet Relief, that provides financial assistance to musicians in health crisis. Come February 8th at San Francisco's historic Masonic Auditorium—in her name, and in these wicked times— we will raise our voices as Joan has."

The February event is part of an ongoing series of shows presented by Sweet Relief Musicians Fund. Sweet Relief Musicians Fund provides services and financial assistance for career musicians and music industry professionals. Grants are earmarked for medical and vital living expenses, including insurance premiums, prescriptions, medical treatment and operative procedures, housing costs, food costs, utilities, and other basic necessities.

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God Is God lyrics:

I believe in prophecy
Some folks see things not everybody can see
And, once in a while, they pass the secret along to you and me

And I believe in miracles
Something sacred burning in every bush and tree
We can all learn to sing the songs the angels sing

Yeah, I believe in God, and God ain't me

I've traveled around the world
Stood on mighty mountains and gazed across the wilderness
Never seen a line in the sand or a diamond in the dust

And as our fate unfurls
Every day that passes I'm sure about a little bit less
Even my money keeps telling me it's God I need to trust

And I believe in God, but God ain't us

God, in my little understanding, don't care what name I call
Whether or not I believe doesn't matter at all

I receive the blessings
That every day on Earth's another chance to get it right
Let this little light of mine shine and rage against the night

Just another lesson
Maybe someone's watching and wondering what I got
Maybe this is why I'm here on Earth, and maybe not

But I believe in God, and God is God

Written by Steve Earle