Dar Williams - Mortal City
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Artist: Dar WilliamsEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1996-01-23
Music Label: Razor & Tie
Soundtracks:
- As Cool as I Am
- February
- Iowa (Traveling III)
- The Christians and the Pagans
- This Was Pompeii
- The Ocean
- Family - Dar Williams, Pettis, Pierce
- The Pointless, Yet Poignant, Crisis of a Co-Ed
- The Blessings
- Southern California Wants to Be Western New York
- Mortal City
Music reviews of Mortal City
Music Review: Good singing voice better songwriter
Rating: 4 Stars
I discovered Dar Williams on a folk station on launchcast that I selected by accident. "The Christians and the Pagans," happened to be the first song to come on and I have been hooked ever since. Her voice is great, but what really drew me was her songwriting. Even songs like Christians and Pagans, which would seem to be just a fun song on the outside, has sly drop-ins like references to candy canes made with red dye #3!
The whole disc is really solid but other than the aforementioned "The Christians and the Pagans," my favorite song on the disc is "February."
Description of Mortal City
This 1996 album was a breakthrough of sorts for Dar Williams, moving her from the obscure folkie circuit to the obscure alternative singer-songwriter circuit. Mortal City comes closest to capturing her live show, and many of the songs here--"Iowa," "The Family," "The Christians and the Pagans"--have become live-set favorites. Like Williams herself, this disc is sentimental, sincere, and emotional; it's an album about growing up. When Williams titles a song "The Pointless, Yet Poignant Crisis of a Co-Ed," you know she's not writing fiction. She also could have called it "Catcher in the Rye," but that title was already taken. --Charles R. CrossGeneral CDs
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