Tara Craig moves like a phantom. Her voice charges through the spiraling smoke of existence. Her penmanship is equally as affecting. Just listen to her self-titled sophomore album. Stacked with intricacies, the nine-song project crawls under your skin in its excavation of self. While she boldly pushes experimental boundaries, her lyrics remain raw – as though these confessions and self-extracted lullabies are life and death entries of her human story. Craig keeps the album themes close to the vest, allowing the listener to parse their own meanings and intentions. As if words etched in marble, Tara Craig arrives as a necessary salve to today’s troubling times and a remarkable step forward in indie/folk music.

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When it comes to making music, many artists try to simply make their sound a little better, but Tara Craig takes a different approach. She truly sits down and contemplates how to make significant leaps forward. On her self-titled album, she depicts this mindset.

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When an artist chooses a self-titled name for an album, it’s always a subtle hint that we’re dealing with something rather personal, perhaps even an autobiography. With her first eponymous album, Tara Craig steps into the spotlight, revealing herself to the listener with almost painful honesty. Tara Craig left me speechless. 

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New song alert!  

“Slow Rain Falling” by Daniel DeShon dropped on 4/5/24. The song features me on backing vocals and keys, Wes Weddell on mandolin and Daniel on all other instruments. 
Mixed & Mastered by Iain Greba.

New music alert: Taylor Swift’s Anti-Hero cover by Goodbye, Beautiful and Tara Craig

It takes a special request by some pretty special people to get me to dare attempt a Taylor Swift cover. My niece Eleanor and her dad Marco of Goodbye, Beautiful happen to be such people.

Goodbye, Beautiful writes and records a song for his kids every year for their birthdays. This year he wanted to do something extra special by  releasing a version of Anti-Hero along with this year's original birthday track.  

When he asked me to sing on this track I admit was super intimidated but I had lot of fun and feel happy with out it turned out. Hope you like it too! 

Thanks Goodbye, Beautiful for asking me to sing on this. Looking forward to what we put out next!

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This has been such a long, beautiful and grueling project I often wondered if this day would ever come. This is, by far, my most personal release to date so it just made sense for it to be self-titled. I feel immensely proud of this collection of songs, my heartstrings tightly woven into each track.

I wrote/co-wrote, produced, engineered and mixed every song on the album and played each instrument you’ll hear with the exception of drums.

This album is meant to be a journey.  It is a lush, moody and intimate musical landscape and I am so excited for you to explore it.

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I had a great conversation with Bill and Dan on “Questions We’re Afraid to Ask”.  Our conversation centers around my experience producing and engineering my latest album.

I'm am so honored to be a guest on Angel Corsi's podcast “Small Time Songwriter”. In his weekly podcast Angel gets real about being a songwriter on a micro scale and all the challenges, and joys, that come along with that.

In this week’s episode he and I chat about my life on a small island, what drives me, why I creates art, winery gigs and the self release and self production headspace!

A huge thank you to Angel for the invitation and wonderful conversation!

#newpodcast #smalltimesongwriter #musicanlife #singersongwriter #folk #sanjuanislandmusic #sanjuanislandmusicians #pnwmusicscene #longmontcreates #fridayharborwashington #taracraig

Wow, what a week it has been. 

My plan was to send an update tonight announcing my single release later this week. I'm still going to do that but first... 

I've heard the word unprecedented an unprecedented amount of times and things are changing fast. It can be difficult to find the balance between overreaction and irresponsible denial. What we do know is that we must do what we can do protect the vulnerable.  The next weeks and months will be hard for everyone. 

Remember you are not alone. We are all in this together. I'm posting a link to an instagram video of mine. I was reminded of these words earlier today and feel like I'm not the only one who needs to hear them. Please take a minute to listen and let the words touch your heart. 

Click here to watch "You Are Not Alone" video 

Oh yeah and my new single will be out on Friday.  Stay tuned! 

Be kind to yourself and everyone else and remember we were made for love! 

- Tara

I am pleased to announce that recording of my new album is well underway.  This is my third album but the first I’ve produced, engineered and mixed all on my own.

At times I find myself overwhelmed by the sheer reality of the task and wonder, do I really have what it takes to pull this off? But there are also moments when I know for certain I’m creating something special. Moments when I am struck by how true these songs feel. Moments when I realize how rare and powerful it is for a musician, especially a female musician, to have full creative control in this way.  I’m leaning into these moments. 

I can’t wait to share these songs with you.