 Dar Williams has got to be the top musical artist in her genre of current Folk Musical Artists. Her music recordings are full and rich enough to cross over into pop, but she is far too real an honest of a story teller for the general herd, so she is not likely to be a large main-stream act. She does have a good web site at http://www.darwilliams.com/ , that has been up since before it was popular for these artists to have their own web site. She also have lots of fan tribute sites like this one. She is one artist who brings tears to my eyes when listening her songs again and again. Like with her first song on her first album: 'When I was a Boy'. There is also many other songs of her's like: 'The Great Unknown' and 'February' to mention just a few. I do not know how she makes it through her sets and holds it together? The song playing is called 'The Christians and The Pagans' off her second album, which is a big favorite of her fans. I would say it is the #1 requested song at her concerts. Her on-line fans are such devotees that they have kept one of the more active message boards going throughout her career, and still going strong. When I first joined it in mid 98, a group of fans from all over the country were putting together a tribute album, and made it through to production and distribution. They called themselves The Madmen Poets. There are not a lot of Music Artist who can lay claim to that. She has been touring for many years, with a grueling schedule, but she recently said to me that she still loves to tour. Also check out her videos at Launch.com |
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This is Dar Williams latest albums, but each of her albums is a winner. They are all treasures. You will not go wrong to buy any of her music. I recommend you start with the first, and work your way up to the latest album. Here are links to web site to find out more about her music. Each album cover below is linked to the artist's web site if they have one. |
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I first discovered Dar Williams on the Lilith
Fair Album, and later caught one of her videos on MTV 2. From
that, I was intrigued about her and searched for more info in the web,
where I discovered her message board. I was addicted to the Dar-list for a while at first. That was until I met Tia, and got a life. We still love her music and see her every time she is in town. Back in 1998, Mike Thompson had posted to the Dar-list about a weekly suggested topic for the list to review her songs one by one. It went far better than I have ever witnessed a message board. I discovered a great many things about her songs I never would have from reading these posts from other fans. Dar happened to over hear me tell a couple of volunteers for 'SELF' about it, and seemed genuinely interested, so I went back through the archives to see when it all began. Here is a link to July 11th 1998 where Mike made this first post to the Dar-list: http://grassyhill.org/stax/dar-list/. If you are into her music, it is an amazing read! |
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As a matter of coincidence, I happen to have the initials: 'DAR', my first Daughter Porsha happens to have the same birthday as Dar Williams, and my Father's first name is 'William'. Go figure. Also, Tia and I went to see Dar Williams perform here in Portland Oregon in May of 2003. Tia received a strong impression that Dar was pregnant, or soon to be. I mentioned it to Dar that night during the autograph signing after the show. She assured us there was no chance of that. We saw her again here in November 2003 playing with Patty Griffin, Shawn Colvin, and Mary Chapin Carpenter, where they first announced that Dar is having a baby boy, and she is beginning to show. |
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I have this thing for Washburn guitars, even though I cannot really play. I found a new top of the line acoustic/electric Washburn guitar w/the hard-shell case, valued at over $3k/ I bought it for myself in mid 2001. I have not hardly played it, so it is still virtually new. It is more of an art piece than a musical instrument to me because of it's fine craftsmanship. It is the only Washburn guitar I have ever seen with a walnut shell, mother of pearl inlay 'Washburn' name on the head, and gold plated tuner keys. It is also the only Washburn I have seen with a dual pick-up. It has a separate pick-up in the base of the bridge . They come with one of the nicest hard-shell cases I have seen as well.
I offered to give (or sell) it to Dar Williams to show her what I thought of her music, but she graciously declined. She probably thought me a nut case? <LOL> |
