For M.P.R. Music, you're connected to all songs considered I'm Bob Boylan.

Sarah Watkins, the singer, the fiddler, you might know from the group Nickel Creek, or I'm with her,

or you might know her as a solo artist. She's just made an album for children. And I'm in love with it.

The album's called Under the Peppertree. It reimagines the song Sarah Loved as a child.

This is a bit of when you wish upon a star known best from Disney's Pinocchio.

When you wish upon a star makes no difference to your heart and anything your heart desires will come to you.

I found such comfort in these songs. Songs I hadn't thought about it a herden years.

So on this edition of All Songs considered a conversation with Sarah Watkins about Under the Peppertree,

the family of musicians she brought along, and we start the conversation by talking about the album's

inspiration. I wanted to find songs that were attached to my childhood and also songs that

stayed with me for one reason or another. Over my lifetime these are songs that have just

popped up in my life or at times that I needed them and have served me over the years.

Whether that's just sentimental memories of a good time that I had or because the lyric is a

little deeper than maybe I thought when I was a kid. What was the impetus? Like to start this,

could you take us to the origin story of this record? Yes, well it started at the beginning of

lockdown when I was beginning to understand this need for a rhythm in the house.

And a routine of some sort. A routine, yeah. And I started to understand like oh maybe this is why

people in when you watch Johnson Abbey and they change their clothes for dinner even though

they're just with the same 10 people. But they wear a nice clothes at dinner because you need

something to signify that the time is changing. And for me that was often music that would sort of

help differentiate between morning and night time. I have a toddler so there's a nap in the

middle of the day and so sometimes they could just feel like two days as one and it was nice to

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