Around this time, O'Keefe played a series of charity concerts for environmental causes, with his efforts culminating two decades later with the formation of his Songbird Foundation, a group dedicated to the protection of songbirds harmed by aggressive coffee-growing practices in Latin America. In 1984 he also founded his own record label,
Coldwater, which released his album The Day to Day that year. Runnin' from the Devil, his first new studio album in well over a decade, appeared in early 2000. Don't Ask, a collaborative album with Bill Braun, arrived in 2003. Five years later O'Keefe released In Time, and in 2015 the singer/songwriter issued Light Leaves the West, which was produced by
Gary Shelton. ~ Jason Ankeny, Rovi