Client Conference - FINAL CUT - 6.8.15

Phoenixville - August Edit

David & Lucy - Living In Twilight (The Weepies Cover) - 10.16.16

Ani Difranco - Grand Canyon - 11.15.16

Lucy, Lindsey, and Tamar come together to sport pussyhats and sing some bluegrass!  Enjoy.

The Wailin' Darlins - Crossing Muddy Waters (John Hiatt cover) - 1.22.17

Thanks for the brilliant song to cover, Michael Schenkel!

The Wailin' Darlins - Springtime Rain (1.22.17)

With special guest Lindsey Massar on cello.  Recorded at Dar Williams' Writing A Song That Matters songwriting retreat at the Garrison Institute in Garrison, NY. (July 2016)

It's just a grid, that's all
A simple grid, just covering a wall
It took a lifetime worth of time
Of straight not straight and broken lines
So this is why you brought me here

You said
Its quiet pulls me close
Then suddenly and stubbornly it's closed
And I don't trust something that knows what I will do
In a way it reminds me of you

And now I suppose
You'll be the one to tell me how this story goes
So ready with your answers
I wish I had some of those

I said
These broken lines, well look at what they did
They gave you permission to think outside the grid
That another someone took the time to make
And misinterpretation is the risk that we all take

I'm not the one who knows
How this story really ever goes
But your withholding little smiles
Gotta get me some of those

You said
Well, what did you expect?
How is it worth my time to make these lines connect?
I said
I'm really not sure
But that fire on the horizon makes this all matter a little more

And there's a time for open
And maybe there's time for shut
And maybe we make space for maybe
And maybe we make space for but

It's just a grid, that's all
A simple grid standing three meters tall
It took a lifetime of time
And straight not straight and broken lines
And this is why I brought you here

It's simple and superimposed
It's just how a story like this goes
And straight not straight is what I chose
It's what I chose.

Tamar - Grid (after Sol LeWitt's Drawing Series)

The Wailin' Darlins - How Are You Doing? (The Living Sisters cover) - 9.24.17

The Wailin' Darlins - In the Long Run (Staves cover) - 12.29.18

The Wailin' Darlins - Somebody Who Loves Me (Whitney Houston cover) - 12.29.18

Lately I see Michigan
When I close my eyes
Clouds are floating cotton balls
In those Great Lakes skies

And from the boat you spot a house
That we are drifting toward
We laugh and toast our plastic cups
To views we can't afford

This is so damn beautiful
And it can't even know
It shrugs us off like centuries
As we pack up and go

Last night I held you to me
Your breath more fear than air
The bed's so big on nights like these
How tightly we lie there

I say join me in Michigan
And it will stay in here
And trust your human need to breathe
Will matter more than fear

You are so damn beautiful
And you can't even know
You close your eyes to what I see
And say please don't let go

Yes, you are so damn beautiful
And you don't even know
So breathe, my love, lie here with me
And I will tell you so.

© Tamar Avishai 2017

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