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The Green World (CD)

By: Dar Williams (Artist)

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DISC 1 for The Green World (CD) Album By Dar Williams (Artist)
1   Playing To The Firmament
2   And A Gold Descended
3   After All
4   What Do You Love More Than Love
5   Spring Street
6   We Learned The Sea
7   I Won't Be Your Yoko Ono
8   Calling The Moon
9   I Had No Right
10   It Happens Every Day
11   Another Mystery
 

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Review

Spin (10/00, pp.182-4) - 7 out of 10 - "...She approaches life with the vivacity of an Ivy League freshman - clinging to that moment when suburban blankness gets drunk on Great Art and runs naked through the lacrosse fields - each of her records has its charms..."
CMJ (7/31/00, p.32) - "...Williams shows us how rich her songwriting skills have become."

Title Note

Personnel: Dar Williams (vocals, acoustic & electric guitar, piano); Billy Masters (electric guitar); Steuart Smith (guitar, electric sitar, accordion, Wurlitzer piano, Hammond organ, keyboards); Knox Chandler (guitar, electric cello); Stewart Lerman (12 string guitar, Mellotron); David Mansfield (violin); Jane Scarpantoni (cello); Fred Parcells (trombone); Rob Hyman (Halifax organ, pump organ, keyboards); Graham Maby (bass); Doug Plavin (drums, percussion); Steve Holley (drums); Carol Steele, Sammy Merendino (percussion).

It ain't easy being queen. In the late 1990s, Dar Williams emerged as the unchallenged ruler of the folk singer-songwriter roost, and her Cry, Cry, Cry side-project with Richard Shindell and Lucy Kaplansky heightened her profile even further. This all added up to a great deal of expectation surrounding THE GREEN WORLD.

Williams did not shrink from the challenge. For one thing, THE GREEN WORLD is the least "folk"-sounding of all her recordings. The rhythm section of Joe Jackson bassman Graham Maby and former Wings drummer Steve Holley provides an expansive, rock-inflected attack for Williams' very personal, lyrically detailed songs. It's not just the band or the production, though; it sounds like Williams wrote many of these songs with a wider appeal in mind. A number of the tunes are catchier and more hook-based than much of her previous work. Don't read "sell-out" into any of this, however; Williams is too set in her quirky ways to pander to the mainstream. On THE GREEN WORLD she's simply opening out a bit.

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