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Dar Williams. The Beauty of the Rain.(Sound Recording Review)
Razor & Tie 7930182886-2, 2003.
Despite her acoustic singer-songwriter background and the earnest neofolk scene in Massachusetts where she got her start, Dar Williams has, to her great and enduring credit, never had any illusions about being a pure folk musician. She is, rather, a pop songwriter with a gentle touch and a generous spirit, and if the mandonlins and Hammond organ make her folk constituency feel better about the electric guitars and drums, fine. Everyone else can simply luxuriate in the complex highlife rhythms, gravelly low harmonies, and ...
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