Dar Williams - The Green World
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Artist: Dar WilliamsEdition: Music CD
Format: Enhanced
CD Release Date: 2000-08-22
Music Label: Razor & Tie
Soundtracks:
- Playing to the Firmament
- And a God Descended
- After All
- What Do You Love More Than Love
- Spring Street
- We Learned the Sea
- I Won't Be Your Yoko Ono
- Calling the Moon
- I Had No Right
- It Happens Every Day
- Another Mystery
Music reviews of The Green World
Music Review: Another Great Album from Dar Williams
Rating: 5 Stars
While Dar did feature an entirely new band and production team on this album, I think reviewers who accuse her of selling out in order to make more money are misguided. In fact, if you examine the rankings of all Dar's albums on Amazon, you'll find that "The Green World" is currently her lowest ranked album at 70,413. Her highest-ranked albums are "Promised Land" at 1,230, "Mortal City" at 5,627, and "The Honesty Room" at 7,273. (I believe Amazon's rankings weigh current sales more heavily than historical sales which would account for "Promised Land" ranking so high, given that it is her most recent album.) These figures make it highly doubtful that Dar is making more money from this album than from her earlier recordings which remain more popular. And I suspect that many reviewers accusing her of selling out make more money than she does in their own careers. So, it would be best to judge the album on its own artistic merits.
One of the surprising things about Dar's music is how consistently good it has been across all her albums. I'm currently listening to all her albums while reviewing them on Amazon. I clearly remembered songs from "The Honesty Room" and other older albums before listening to them, but did not have such clear memories of the songs on "The Green World". But I believe that is because I've owned the older albums longer and have listened to them more often. As soon as I heard the songs on this CD again today, I remembered them quite well and that I had liked them very much when I first bought the album.
This CD certainly has some incredibly beautiful songs that really touch me, as much as any that Dar has written. They include "After All", "Spring Street", "We Learned the Sea", "Calling the Moon", "I Had No Right", and especially "It Happens Every Day" (which feels like it could have come from her first album). The other songs are more energetic but are all good songs with good lyrics.
If you're a folk purist and are willing to really listen to this album, I think you'll enjoy it very much, especially if you've liked earlier albums from Dar.
Description of The Green World
The Green World is the Dar Williams of the 21st Century collecting the musical, inspirational and emotional elements she developed over the last three albums and taking them all one great musical step further. The songs on The Green World shine. Recorded in Woodstock and in New York City, Dar has added a new dimension to her work by using producer Stewart Lerman and a host of ace studio musicians. Their dramatic arrangements showcase not only her appealingly complex lyrics but also her growing musical and vocal maturity. Dar has added a new dimension to her recorded work.24 bit / 96 kHz DVD-Audio, 24 bit / 48 kHz Dolby Digital 5.1, and stereo options
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Like many of her contemporaries, folk-rocker Dar Williams seems weary of her road-tested, pared-down, fan-pleasing musical formula. Her last outing, 1997's End of the Summer, gave hints of her interest in a more instrumentally rich, highly produced, pop-leaning sound, but still maintained an earthy folk sensibility. On 2000's The Green World, Williams's guileless humor and stripped acoustic sound are replaced by shimmering electric guitars, heavy reverb, compact lyrics, and complex, layered percussion. Her steadfast fans may cry "sellout" initially, but by the third listen, they'll begin to sympathize. Yes, this new, polished sound seems to hang heavy on tracks such as "Calling the Moon," where an invasive Hammond organ and overbearing guitar nearly drown out the reedy plea of Williams's heartbreaking voice. And "After All," a wrenchingly introspective rumination, begs to be left in subtle simplicity. But songs like the mild-yet-infectious jaunt "Another Mystery," the passionately insistent lament "And a God Descended," and the gentle rock reverie "Playing to the Firmament" bear their lavish arrangements with grace and pride. --Sally Weinbach
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