Track Premiere: Dar Williams “Tu Sais Le Printemps”

Dar Williams needs no introduction here, a consummate songwriter with a slew of critically acclaimed albums behind her and the new album “Hummingbird Highway” ahead of her. Williams’ 13th album is out September 12th on Righteous Babe Records, and it is “a highway, filled with deep, exotic colours and beautiful, delicate things as well as the perils that come from moving so fast. I was a kid from the suburbs who listened when her hippie teachers said to get out in the world,” says Dar.

The latest single from the album is (no spoiler here, we hope) partially in French, and appropriately for the language of love, is something of a love song. Dar Williams told Americana UK that ” ‘Tu Sais Le Printemps,’ or ‘the French song’, for all my friends who can’t pronounce it, was like a painting on an easel that I would return to every day. The final canvas was filled with ornamental garden paths, cafe tables, lingering glances, a shirt innocently slipping off one shoulder, and buttons flying off in a gust of wind to reveal the top of a lacy camisole. That kind of painting. Tu Sais Le Printemps means, “You know the spring…”. I didn’t mean to run barefoot through the park and fall in love with you again, but, well, you know, the spring. ”