Name: I'll Meet You Here
Brand: Dar Williams

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Limited edition

Release date

2021-10-01

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WEA /­ ADA

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Sales:8.875

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Artist

Dar Williams

Genre US

Folk

Label US

Renew Records

Dar Williams is an American singer-songwriter born on April 19, 1967 in Mount Kisco, NY, United States. With her captivating voice and heartfelt lyrics, she has become a prominent figure in the folk music scene. Dar's songs are known for their thought-provoking themes and storytelling abilities. Her ability to connect with audiences through her music has made her a beloved artist among fans worldwide.
Throughout her career, Dar Williams has released numerous albums that have received critical acclaim and commercial success. Her unique blend of folk, pop, and rock influences creates a sound that is both familiar and refreshing. With each album release, Dar continues to push boundaries and explore new musical territories.
In addition to her solo work, Dar Williams has collaborated with various artists across different genres. She has also been involved in activism work focusing on social justice issues such as environmental sustainability and LGBTQ+ rights. Through her music and advocacy efforts, Dar strives to make a positive impact on the world around her.

Dar Williams’ lyrics contain bouquets of optimism, delivered on melodies alternating between beguiling lightness and understated gravity. Williams strongly believes that all of us possess our own power and ability to achieve, and she rejects the exceptionalism that encourages us to “admire that yonder star,” while making us feel small and insignificant; unworthy of shining on our own but hoping to catch enough distant light to inspire some tiny accomplishment. Williams has always been very interested in how to control our future and this album has to do with the fact that at some point, you just can’t. 

Like everyone else, Williams spent 2020 in that state of non-control. She and longtime producer Stewart Lerman tracked most of the album, her 12th studio recording, in November of 2019. In late February of 2020, she cut the title tune in Woodstock with bassist Gail Ann Dorsey and Larry Campbell, who produced the track and played guitars, pedal steel and twangy baritone guitar. When told they had to postpone a mid-March mixing date, Campbell said he wasn’t feeling well anyway. Turns out he’d contracted a serious case of COVID-19. That was a clear sign that at some point, you have to meet life where it meets you . . . the common thread throughout these songs, the willingness to meet life as it arrives.

Dar Williams was always in the right place at the right time for the success she’s had over a 25 year career. She rose out of the vibrant mid-90’s Boston scene, inspired by the eclectic influences of alt-rockers, Berklee jazz musicians, slam poets, and folk artists, like Patty Griffith, Melissa Ferrick, the Throwing Muses, Vance Gilbert, and Jonathan Brooke. After a year of touring non-stop with her first album, The Honesty Room, in 1994, she was invited by Joan Baez to tour in Europe and The United States.

“Good and bad things happen, and it’s not necessarily a reward or indictment. I’ve just got to meet it.” Williams observes. “Like, I’m bringing my whole life to this moment; it will surprise me, challenge me, show me where I was wrong, even make a fool out of me, but my job is to show up and not take adversity personally. Real happiness doesn’t have to feel like Snoopy dancing with Woodstock; it can just be knowing you have the resilience to meet whatever comes to you. I will call that a good life.”

I'll Meet You Here

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