The Tami Show

From Paris, Texas to Paris, France.. Old Cowtown to the Barbary Coast.. The Street Corner to the Cabaret.. Altman's Nashville to Bogart's Casablanca.......... 

The Tami Show… 

 

The songs: 

Powerful originals by Tami’s brother Craig Means and unique interpretations of timeless classics. 

 

The players (a rotating cast) 

Tami Means on guitars, vocals, and percussion, Tony Watts on harmonica and guitar, Todd Gleason on guitar and vocals, Colin Staub on mandolin, Luis Moran on trumpet and vocals, Craig Means on electric lead and slide guitar, and Matt Stromberg on drums. 

 

The music: 

Meticulous arrangements and inspired improvisations invite you to share a bottle of wine in a seaside bossa nova cabaret or to drink black coffee at the counter of a dusty roadside cafe. 
The effect is dark, folky, mournful, uplifting, tough and sweet, part Chet Baker, part Kris Kristofferson, part Ennio Morricone, and a lot in between. 

 

The place: 

Busking the streets of Stumptown… 

Or perhaps… 

Closing down the dance hall amidst old streamers and a few lonely spinning bodies, in the fallen crepe paper shadows in a barn by the beach, on some dying, drizzling Sunday afternoon… 

 

"No artifice, just art; no pretense, just perfect." -Ron Curran (San Francisco Guardian).............