My Better Self

Dar Williams - My Better Self

My Better Self
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Artist: Dar Williams
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2005-09-13
Music Label: Razor & Tie
Soundtracks:
  1. Teen For God
  2. Miss You Till I Meet You
  3. Echoes
  4. Blue Light Of The Flame
  5. Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere
  6. Two Sides Of The River
  7. Empire
  8. Comfortably Numb
  9. So Close To My Heart
  10. Beautiful Enemy
  11. Liar
  12. You Rise And Meet The Day
  13. The Hudson

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Free Music Review: One of Dar's best.
Hit: 4 Stars

From top to bottom this is a very solid CD and deserves a spot up there with "Mortal City" and her other best material. I liked the duet cover of "Comfortably Numb." The highlight for me on this disc though is the lead off song "Teen for God."

If you like Dar's music this will not dissappoint, if you are new to her...this might be a good launch point for you because of the album's pop-oriented sound.
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As the folk singer-songwriter continues to incorporate more pop elements, Dar Williams conjures a whole coming-of-age era in an album that suggests a 1970s soundtrack suffused with 1960s idealism. My Better Self's opening track, "Teen for God," evokes the bouncy innocence of Bible camp and the bittersweet ironies of innocence lost. "Echoes" sounds like it could have inspired a singalong around that campfire, a secular hymn for the global village about the big impact of small actions. On Williams's revival of Neil Young's "Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere," Marshall Crenshaw provides vocal counterpoint and stinging guitar, while she teams with Ani DiFranco for a disembodied duet on Pink Floyd's "Comfortably Numb." With its intimations of immortality, "Blue Light of the Flame" features a shimmering keyboard generating space-age atmospherics reminiscent of early David Bowie. "So Close to My Heart" and "The Hudson" (with harmonies from Patty Larkin) return Williams's music to its folk base, but much of the rest suggests rites of passage, at a time when all sorts of "better selves" seem open to possibility, with the radio always on. --Don McLeese

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