Tuesday tea tunes: Equal-ity

I've heard the first four-star album of 2012, and it is "Bhiman," the semi-self-titled sophomore outing for San Francisco-based singer-songwriter Bhi Bhiman. I'm nuts about this guy. He's funny, he's poignant, he's got a very Woody Guthrie-esque balance of both. He's also an unassuming gent whose leather-lunged voice usually takes people completely by very pleasant surprise.

Here he is performing an older original, "Equal in My Tea." It's about meeting his wife and realizing she was the sweet ingredient his brew required ...