Barely A Lady ✧ raw jam

This audio was recorded in Oakland, California on Sept. 18th 2021, at the upright piano of Colette Washington, the most legendary Airbnb host I've ever had. A singer-turned-realtor, Colette was kinda like the queer mom I never knew. She's always cheering me on, and telling me how stoked she is to see me going after my dreams. One night after a couple glasses of wine and some sticky-icky from her family's farm in Humbolt, we found ourselves crooning into the darkness. I’d started recording my own compositions 14 years prior on my *birth* mom’s upright, so this configuration felt natural and familiar to me. I decided to play Colette this song, “Barely A Lady,” which I'd written at least a de...View all