I really believe that we are constantly affecting everything around us and it responds to us.

So if we can hold or primarily hold a positive feeling about the world, about ourselves and hold hope, we can change the world.

This is Death, Sex and Money.

The show from WNYC about the things we think about a lot and need to talk about more. I'm Anna Sam.

This is Beverly Glenn Copeland, whose music has become a source of comfort and joy for me over the last few years.

Glenn is a Canadian musician and singer-songwriter who I first talked to in 2020 and then again just a few weeks ago for an update you'll hear at the end of this episode.

He's been quietly putting out albums since the 1970s. This song, Ever New, was released by Glenn in 1986 on an album called Keyboard Fantasies.

The album went largely unnoticed until 2015 when a Japanese record collector emailed Glenn to ask if he had any more copies.

I wouldn't go so much as to say it was exciting. I would say I was thinking, oh, that's great. And there must have some around here somewhere and I didn't even remember where they were.

My wife said, yeah, this is where they are and she went and pulled them all out. Otherwise, I still be looking for them, right?

And he sold those within a week and a half.

And then what happened was all of a sudden within probably a month of them selling those records, I started getting calls from record companies.

And at that point, that was when my joy hit the floor.

Suddenly, in his 70s, Glenn's career took off and 2020 was supposed to be the year when all this new attention and opportunity was going to come together.

A new documentary about Glenn was headed for film festivals, a new collection of his music was being released and an international tour was planned.

And then of course, the tour was called off.

It was interesting because I really didn't have much time to think about the loss of the touring. I was so busy thinking about the loss of a home.

At the time, Glenn and his wife Elizabeth were also in the midst of moving. They'd already sold their old house.

And when the projected earnings from the tour went away, they could no longer afford the place they'd plan to buy.

So we ended up being homeless.

That's how I first learned about Glenn's music.

Producer Afe Yellow Duke told me about a go fund me. His daughter started that raised around $75,000 for Glenn and Elizabeth.

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