The Green World [ECD] by Dar Williams (CD, Jan-2000, Razor & Tie Music)

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Album Features
UPC:	793018285629
Artist:	Dar Williams
Format:	CD
Release Year:	2000
Record Label:	Razor & Tie Music
Genre:	Folk

Track Listing
1. Playing to the Firmament
2. And a God Descended
3. After All
4. What Do You Love More Than Love
5. Spring Street
6. We Learned the Sea
7. I Won't Be Your Yoko Ono
8. Calling the Moon
9. I Had No Right
10. It Happens Every Day
11. Another Mystery

Details
Producer:	Stewart Lerman
Distributor:	BMG (distributor)
Recording Type:	Studio
Recording Mode:	Stereo
SPAR Code:	n/a

Album Notes
Personnel: Dar Williams (vocals, acoustic & electric guitar, piano); Billy Masters (electric guitar); Steuart Smith (guitar, electric sitar, accordion, Wurlitzer piano, Hammond organ, keyboards); Knox Chandler (guitar, electric cello); Stewart Lerman (12 string guitar, Mellotron); David Mansfield (violin); Jane Scarpantoni (cello); Fred Parcells (trombone); Rob Hyman (Halifax organ, pump organ, keyboards); Graham Maby (bass); Doug Plavin (drums, percussion); Steve Holley (drums); Carol Steele, Sammy Merendino (percussion).Personnel: Dar Williams (vocals, acoustic guitar); Billy Masters (guitar, electric guitar); Steuart Smith (guitar, electric sitar, accordion, Wurlitzer organ); David Mansfield (violin); Jane Scarpantoni (cello); Rob Hyman (organ); Steve Holley (drums); Doug Plavin (percussion).Audio Mixers: Steve Addabbo; Stewart Lerman; William Wittman.Recording information: Dreamland Studios; The Shinebox; Water Music.Photographers: Jennifer Barbato; Kate Swan; C. Taylor Crothers.It ain't easy being queen. In the late 1990s, Dar Williams emerged as the unchallenged ruler of the folk singer-songwriter roost, and her Cry, Cry, Cry side-project with Richard Shindell and Lucy Kaplansky heightened her profile even further. This all added up to a great deal of expectation surrounding THE GREEN WORLD.Williams did not shrink from the challenge. For one thing, THE GREEN WORLD is the least "folk"-sounding of all her recordings. The rhythm section of Joe Jackson bassman Graham Maby and former Wings drummer Steve Holley provides an expansive, rock-inflected attack for Williams' very personal, lyrically detailed songs. It's not just the band or the production, though; it sounds like Williams wrote many of these songs with a wider appeal in mind. A number of the tunes are catchier and more hook-based than much of her previous work. Don't read "sell-out" into any of this, however; Williams is too set in her quirky ways to pander to the mainstream. On THE GREEN WORLD she's simply opening out a bit.