Honesty Room CD

MUSIC

FOLK

Song Listing

Disc 1

Song Title

1. When I Was A Boy ~ Dar Williams

2. Alleluia ~ Dar Williams

3. Great Unknown, The ~ Dar Williams

4. When Sal's Burned Down ~ Dar Williams

5. Babysitter's Here, The ~ Dar Williams

6. You're Aging Well ~ Dar Williams

7. Traveling Again (Traveling I) ~ Dar Williams

8. In Love But Not At Peace ~ Dar Williams

9. Mark Rothko Song ~ Dar Williams

10. This Is Not The House That Pain Built ~ Dar Williams

11. I Love, I Love (Traveling II) ~ Dar Williams

12. Flinty Kind Of Woman ~ Dar Williams

13. Arrival ~ Dar Williams

Album Notes and Credits

Notes & Personnel Info
	Personnel: Dar Williams (vocals, acoustic guitar); Mary Annis (spoken vocals); Adam Rothberg (acoustic & electric guitars, dobro, accordion, organ, xylophone, bass, congas); Mark Dann (guitar, bass); Max Cohen (guitar); Craig Eastman (mandolin, violin, viola); Rebecca Koehler (violin); Gideon Freudmann (cello); Tom McClung (piano); Rico Spence, Guy DeVito (bass); Dave Noonan, Dave Klock (drums); Jaime Morton, Linda Ridley, Judy Bauman (handclaps); Katryna Nields, Nerissa Nields (background vocals).
	Producers: Dar Williams, Adam Rothberg, David Seitz, Brooks Williams .
	Recorded at Shoestring Studio, Belchertown, Massachusetts; Wendell Recording Studio, Wendell, Massachusetts; Wellspring Studio, Newton, Massachusetts; Guy DeVito's Studio, Shutesbury, Massachusetts.
	Composer: Dar Williams.
	Personnel: Dar Williams (vocals, acoustic guitar); Adam Rothberg (acoustic guitar, electric guitar, dobro, accordion, organ, xylophone, bass guitar, congas); Mark Dann (electric guitar); Craig Eastman (mandolin, violin, viola); Rebecca Koehler (violin); Gideon Freudmann (cello); Tom McClung (piano); Dave Noonan (drums); Jaim? Morton (hand claps).
	Recording information: Shoestring Studio, Belchertown, MA.
	Unknown Contributor Role: Mary Annis.
	Upon the release of this debut album, Massachusetts native Dar Williams quickly won comparisons to Joan Baez and Joni Mitchell. Such assessments are complimentary, but Williams doesn't take herself quite as seriously as those seminal soprano folksingers. Williams has a wicked sense of humor. She delivers her witty story-songs in a conversational manner, accompanying her clear, high voice with clean acoustic guitar. Sisters Katryna and Nerissa Nields provide backup vocals on several songs.
	Williams is blessed with an excellent memory of her childhood experiences and with a vivid imagination. In "When I Was a Boy," she sings about her adolescence as if she had grown up male. This plaintive and introspective, yet subtly humorous, song typifies about half of the Williams oeuvre. The other half consists of fast-paced, overtly funny recollections and imaginings. "The Babysitter's Here" is a hilarious ode to a babysitter on whom Williams had a crush while growing up. But such is Williams' cleverness that one can never be too sure what is fact here and what is fiction.
Engineer: David Seitz; Huck Bennert; Mark Alan Miller; Mark Miller; Norman Blain
Musical Guests
	Katryna Nields
	Nerissa Nields

Artist Overview

Dar Williams is a folk singer based in western Massachusetts. Born Dorothy Snowden Williams in 1967, Williams gravitated from her native New York to the folkie oasis of Northampton, Massachusetts, in the early 1990s. Gaining popularity with albums like 1993's THE HONESTY ROOM and 1996's MORTAL CITY, Williams became a key part of the western Massachusetts contemporary folk scene. In 1998, she formed a side project, Cry Cry Cry, with singer-songwriters Richard Shindell and Lucy Kaplansky. Later albums such as 2005's MY BETTER SELF feature more electric, pop-oriented material reminiscent of Richard Thompson and Aimee Mann.

Artist Followers
Danielle Howle | Jewel | Kathleen Edwards | Sarah Harmer

Compilation Appearances

	Best Of Kerrville Folk Festival Vol 1
	This Bird Has Flown: A 40th Anniversary Tribute to the Beatles' Rubber Soul
	For The Kids Three
	Occupy This Album
	More Perfect Union

Technical Info

	Release Date : 1997
	Original Release Date : 1993
	Catalog ID : 2816
	Label : Razor & Tie
	Number of Discs : 1
	Studio/Live : Studio
	Mono/Stereo : Stereo
	SPAR Code : DDD
	UPC : 00793018281621

Professional Reviews

Entertainment Weekly (3/24/95, pp.64-65)
- "...Folk singers aren't supposed to display humor and lyrical poise until they're a bit long in the tooth. But Williams achieves that and more on her debut....she's savvier than most strummers [and] she's one of folk's heaviest hitters..." - Rating: A

Q (10/99, p.157)
- 4 stars out of 5 - "...[her songs] are intensely melodic, wisecracking and rumbustious, replete with strings, organ, congas, electric guitar and, on 'Alleluia,' a heavenly choir..."

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Honesty Room (1993)

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