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
- The Pointless, Yet Poignant, Crisis Of A Co-Ed
- The Blessings
- Southern California Wants To Be Western New York
- Mortal City
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Free Music Review: Good singing voice better songwriter
Hit: 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."
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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. CrossFolk Music CDs
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