Dar Williams - The Beauty of the Rain
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Artist: Dar WilliamsEdition: Music CD
Format: Enhanced
CD Release Date: 2003-02-18
Music Label: Razor & Tie
Soundtracks:
- The World's Not Falling Apart (featured guests: Michael Kang - Fiddle; Stefan Lessard - bass)
- Farewell To The Old Me (featured guests: Stefan Lessard - bass; John Medeski - keyboards)
- I Saw A Bird Fly Away (featured guests: John Medeski - keyboards; John Popper - harmonica, vocals)
- The Beauty of The Rain (featured guest: Chris Botti - trumpet)
- Mercy of The Fallen
- The One Who Knows (featured guest: Alison Krauss - vocals)
- Closer To Me (featured guest: Bela Fleck - banjo)
- Fishing In The Morning (featured guests: Bela Fleck - banjo; Michael Kang - fiddle)
- Whispering Pines (featured guests: Chris Botti - trumpet; Cliff Eberhardt - vocals; Alison Krauss -vocals; Stefan Lessard - bass)
- Your Fire Your Soul (featured guest: John Medeski - keyboards)
- I Have Lost My Dreams
Music reviews of The Beauty of the Rain
Music Review: It's DVD-Audio, It's Not Supposed To Play On Your PC
Rating: 5 Stars
Just stumbled across the inane "review" that was posted for "The Beauty of the Rain" DVD-Audio. DVD-A's aren't meant to be played on computers, so I don't see why Dar's excellent album should get a misleading one-star rating because the buyer erred with their purchase.
For those who have a compatible universal player, the DVD-A of this album is fantastic. You'll hear lots of musical details that you won't on the regular CD.
Description of The Beauty of the Rain
Dar Williams delivers her most stunning work to date with The Beauty Of The Rain, showcasing a new, fuller sound and her master at mapping out the emotional terrain of people whose lives are in transition. Produced by Rob Hyman (Joan Osborne, Hooters) and Stewart Lerman (Laurie Anderson), The Beauty Of The Rain features guest appearances by a remarkable roster of talent: platinum artist Alison Krauss on vocals, Bela Fleck on banjo, John Popper (Blues Traveler) manning the harmonica and backup vocals, Stefan Lessard (Dave Matthews Band) on bass, electro-jazz wiz John Medeski (Medeski, Martin & Wood) on keyboards, Chris Botti on trumpet, and Michael Kang (String Cheese Incident) on fiddle.Alison Krauss, Bela Fleck, John Medeski, Stefan Lessard, Chris Botti and John Popper among guests joining Dar on this album.
24 bit / 96 kHz DVD-Audio, 24 bit / 48 kHz Dolby Digital 5.1, and stereo options
Stunning 5.1 surround sound
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With each release, this East Coast singer-songwriter moves farther from the strictures of folk into the musical mainstream. While Dar Williams's artistic trademarks--lyrical introspection, melodic warmth, an occasional tendency toward breathy vocal preciousness--remain much in evidence on this collection, produced by Stewart Lerman and Rob Hyman, the expanded musical support adds more rhythmic propulsion and layers of harmonies to the mix. Among the highlights are "I Saw a Bird Fly Away," featuring the harmonica chirp and background vocals of Blues Traveler's John Popper and the keyboard of John Medeski, and a hymnlike transformation of the Band's "Whispering Pines," with vocal counterpoint from Cliff Eberhardt and harmonies from Alison Krauss. Other musicians making key contributions include banjoist B?la Fleck, trumpeter Chris Botti, bassist Stefan Lessard (Dave Matthews Band), and fiddler Mike Kang (String Cheese Incident). Titles such as "Farewell to the Old Me" and "I Have Lost My Dreams" reinforce the spirit of transformation, though one of the strongest cuts here, "Mercy of the Fallen," sticks closest to folk convention. --Don McLeese
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