Dar Williams - Beauty Of The Rain
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Track List: Beauty Of The Rain
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- Mercy Of The FallenDownload & Buy
- Farewell To The Old MeDownload & Buy
- I Saw A Bird Fly AwayDownload & Buy
- The Beauty Of The RainDownload & Buy
- The World's Not Falling ApartDownload & Buy
- The One Who KnowsDownload & Buy
- Closer To MeDownload & Buy
- Fishing In The MorningDownload & Buy
- Whispering PinesDownload & Buy
- Your Fire Your SoulDownload & Buy
- I Have Lost My DreamsDownload & Buy
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Album Details: Beauty Of The Rain
- Release Date:
- 02/18/2003
- Label:
- Razor & Tie
- UPC:
- 793018288620
User Reviews: Beauty Of The Rain
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Still an UN-gentrified Dar!
, March 4, 2003Reviewer: ljjl00 - See all ljjl00's reviewsDar is in love and happy, so I was expecting an ewey gooey fresh and fruity new album. After viewing the track list - "Farewell To The Old Me" - I found myself fearful. Fearful we would find an album dedicated to an explanation of Dar's seemingly meaningless journey through life until -
Dar-ling New Flavors
, February 28, 2003Reviewer: Mate - See all Mate's reviewsThough initially longing for the personal intimacy I experienced with Dar under the spell of her earlier albums such as Honesty Room, I found this collaboration to be a fun listen with Dar revealing herself in an interesting mix of new flavors. Here her genius shines as a part of a bigger whole rather than as a singular luminary. The gift of her singing, songwriting, and performing is in her deep connection with the human experience.
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Pro Reviews: Beauty Of The Rain
| EXPERT RATING: From AMG Reviews Where Mortal City was a consciously reformatted Honesty Room, End of the Summer was an overthetop break away from Mortal City, and The Green World was an admission that End of the Summer was a forced endeavor, The Beauty of the Rain is Dar Williams' first recording that truly expands upon the sound of the album before it. For the first time in her career, Williams no longer pushed too hard to readjust her sound, but instead embraced and built upon it. The result is her most comfortable and confident recording to date and the first time Williams did not appear to be ashamed of her previous work. Complete with a heavy roster including John Medeski, Alison Krauss, Béla Fleck, and John Popper, The Beauty of the Rain is a polished and spacioussounding recording where virtually every track is an easy parade through flourishing arrangements and accessibility. The only song to stand out as a bit off the mark is the initially stunning "Whispering Pines," which shifts from a lovely, lush backing vocal and keyboard opening to a new agetinted piano ballad, but when the third verse sets in, guest Cliff Eberhardt's soulless and strained singing turns it into a poor Disneystyle "endofpicture" duet and the whole song crashes down in a train wreck of poor judgment. Albumopener and extraordinary single "Mercy of the Fallen," the staccato intricacies of "Closer to Me," and the understated title track more than make up for this blunder and will certainly please passionate fans as well as increase Dar Williams' fan base considerably. - Gregory McIntosh, All Music Guide |
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Dar Williams has become a major force on the New England folk scene. An idiosyncratic songwriter who writes folk songs from a unique, often insightful perspective, Williams takes pains to avoid the coy, and the quirky; her songwriting and performing ...Full Dar Williams Biography
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