Songs from her Dissonant World album:

    The song Brother Raven was inspired by the strength and toughness of LaRae's great grandmother. She lived to be well over 100 years old, and in her life time she had seen "it all". She was of the Lakes people of the Columbia River. Great grandma started her life in a largely traditional society, fishing salmon and gathering from the land. She went to the next place living in a nursing home in the city of Colville, Washington in the age of electronics. Throughout all she was strong, independent, and willing to say what she thought.

    The song River's Edge was partly inspired by the book Women who run with wolves and is a tribute to a special creative woman who's "searching for blue skies". It about the difficulty of making space for your creative power, especially as a woman, and then holding onto that space in the face of all of the commitments and expectations that we deal with in life.

    Dissonant World is about the often conflicting forces that push and pull us through life. Often, people want to hold to an extreme, to judge things as all black or all white, when in truth, most situations are gray, made up of conflicting "goods" and "bads" that can be seen from more than one side.

    Thundering Water is a story from the Columbia River. Below the slack waters of Grand Coulee Dam, the Kettle Falls lie nacient. Before the dam, these falls were the center of life of the people of the upper Columbia, a place to fish, to meet, to pray, and, in this song, to fall in love.