End of the Summer by Dar Williams (CD, Jul-1997, Razor & Tie Music)

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Album Features
UPC:	793018283021
Artist:	Dar Williams
Format:	CD
Release Year:	1997
Record Label:	Razor & Tie Music
Genre:	Folk

Track Listing
1. Are You Out There
2. Party Generation
3. If I Wrote You
4. What Do You Hear in These Sounds
5. End of the Summer, The
6. Teenagers, Kick Our Butts
7. My Friends
8. Bought and Sold
9. Road Buddy
10. It's a War in There
11. Better Things

Details
Playing Time:	44 min.
Contributing Artists:	Mark Egan, Steve Miller, Glen Velez, Dee Carstensen, Jeff Golub, Lucy Kaplansky, William Galison, Richard Shindell
Producer:	Steven Miller
Distributor:	BMG (distributor)
Recording Type:	Studio
Recording Mode:	Stereo
SPAR Code:	n/a

Album Notes
Personnel includes: Dar Williams (vocals, guitar); Richard Shindell, Lucy Kaplansky (vocals); Larry Campbell (acoustic & pedal steel guitars, dobro, bouzouki); Steven Miller (acoustic guitar, tambourine); Shane Fontayne (guitar, dobro); Jeff Golub (guitar, slide guitar); Bill Dillon (guitar); Erik Friedlander (cello); William Galison (bass harmonica); Charlie Giordano (accordian); Lincoln Goines (acoustic & electric basses); Mark Egan (bass); Sammy Merendino (drums, loops); Glen Velez (bodhran, frame drum, riq, tambourine, pandeiro); Roger Squitero (congas); Carol Steele (timbales); Amy Fairchild, Justina Golden, Joyce Zymeck, Dee Carstensen, Lorraine Ferro, Kaz Silver (background vocals).Recorded in Dar's Bedroom, Massachusetts; Slaughterhouse Recording, Hadley, Massachusetts; Live Wire Recording, Spa Studios and Sorcerer Sound, New York, New York.Personnel: Dar Williams (vocals, guitar); Bill Dillon (vocals, guitar, electric guitar); Richard Shindell (vocals); Larry Campbell (guitar, acoustic guitar, dobro, bouzouki); Jeff Golub (guitar, electric guitar, slide guitar); Mark Egan (guitar); Steven Miller (acoustic guitar); Shane Fontayne (electric guitar); Erik Friedlander (cello); William Galison (harmonica); Charlie Giordano (accordion); Lincoln Goines (acoustic bass); Shawn Pelton (snare drum, cymbals, hi-hat); Roger Squitero (congas, tambourine); Glen Velez (bodhran, pandeiro, tambourine); Carol Steele (timbales); Dee Carstensen, Kaz Silver, Justina Golden, Katryna Nields, Lorraine Ferro, Amy Fairchild, Nerissa Nields (background vocals).Recording information: Dar's Bedroom, Western Massachusetts; Live Wire Recording; Slaughterhouse Recor; Sorcerer SOund, New York, NY; Spa Studios.Unknown Contributor Role: Steve Gaboury.On her third album, contemporary folk singer-songwriter Dar Williams once again proves herself to be an insightful, compassionate and witty teller of tales with a lovely, versatile voice. Standouts on END OF THE SUMMER include "What Do You Hear in These Sounds?" which cleverly describes conversations with a therapist: "It's just me and all the memories to follow/Down any course that fits within a fifty-minute hour." Williams gets even more whimsical on songs like the playful rocker "Teenagers, Kick Our Butts." She turns with ease to Joan Baez-like folkiness on the dreamy, bittersweet ballad "The End of the Summer" and the poignancy of the sad, understated "You Will Not Write Me Again."