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The Honesty Room (CD)

By: Dar Williams (Artist)

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Dar Williams Artist Snapshot:

Dar Williams is a folk singer based in western Massachusetts. Born Dorothy Snowden Williams in 1967, Williams gravitated from her native New York to the folkie oasis of Northampton, Massachusetts, in the early 1990s. Gaining popularity with albums like 1993's THE HONESTY ROOM and 1996's MORTAL CITY, Williams became a key part of the western Massachusetts contemporary folk scene. In 1998, she formed a side project, Cry Cry Cry, with singer-songwriters Richard Shindell and Lucy Kaplansky. Later albums such as 2005's MY BETTER SELF feature more electric, pop-oriented material reminiscent of Richard Thompson and Aimee Mann.

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DISC 1 for The Honesty Room (CD) Album By Dar Williams (Artist)
1   When I Was A Boy
2   Alleluia
3   Great Unknown, The
4   When Sal's Burned Down
5   Babysitter's Here, The
6   You're Aging Well
7   Traveling Again (Traveling I)
8   In Love But Not At Peace
9   Mark Rothko Song
10   This Is Not The House That Pain Built
11   I Love, I Love (Traveling II)
12   Flinty Kind Of Woman
13   Arrival
 

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Review

Entertainment Weekly (3/24/95, pp.64-65) - "...Folk singers aren't supposed to display humor and lyrical poise until they're a bit long in the tooth. But Williams achieves that and more on her debut....she's savvier than most strummers [and] she's one of folk's heaviest hitters..." - Rating: A
Q (10/99, p.157) - 4 stars out of 5 - "...[her songs] are intensely melodic, wisecracking and rumbustious, replete with strings, organ, congas, electric guitar and, on 'Alleluia,' a heavenly choir..."

Title Note

Personnel: Dar Williams (vocals, acoustic guitar); Mary Annis (spoken vocals); Adam Rothberg (acoustic & electric guitars, dobro, accordion, organ, xylophone, bass, congas); Mark Dann (guitar, bass); Max Cohen (guitar); Craig Eastman (mandolin, violin, viola); Rebecca Koehler (violin); Gideon Freudmann (cello); Tom McClung (piano); Rico Spence, Guy DeVito (bass); Dave Noonan, Dave Klock (drums); Jaime Morton, Linda Ridley, Judy Bauman (handclaps); Katryna Nields, Nerissa Nields (background vocals).

Producers: Dar Williams, Adam Rothberg, David Seitz, Brooks Williams .

Recorded at Shoestring Studio, Belchertown, Massachusetts; Wendell Recording Studio, Wendell, Massachusetts; Wellspring Studio, Newton, Massachusetts; Guy DeVito's Studio, Shutesbury, Massachusetts.

Upon the release of this debut album, Massachusetts native Dar Williams quickly won comparisons to Joan Baez and Joni Mitchell. Such assessments are complimentary, but Williams doesn't take herself quite as seriously as those seminal soprano folksingers. Williams has a wicked sense of humor. She delivers her witty story-songs in a conversational manner, accompanying her clear, high voice with clean acoustic guitar. Sisters Katryna and Nerissa Nields provide backup vocals on several songs.

Williams is blessed with an excellent memory of her childhood experiences and with a vivid imagination. In "When I Was a Boy," she sings about her adolescence as if she had grown up male. This plaintive and introspective, yet subtly humorous, song typifies about half of the Williams oeuvre. The other half consists of fast-paced, overtly funny recollections and imaginings. "The Babysitter's Here" is a hilarious ode to a babysitter on whom Williams had a crush while growing up. But such is Williams' cleverness that one can never be too sure what is fact here and what is fiction.

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