The Beauty Of The Rain [Digipak]

Performer: Dar Williams
Artist: Chris Botti; Cliff Eberhardt; Bela Fleck; John Popper; John Medeski; Alison Krauss; Stefan Lessard & John Medeski; John Popper & John Medeski; Stefan Lessard & Michael Kang; Bela Fleck & Michael Kang; Steffan Lessard
Engineer: Chris Kress; Robert Battaglia; Richard Battaglia; Steve Addabbo; Stewart Lerman; Will Schillinger; William Wittman
Producer: Rob Hyman; Stewart Lerman
Distributor: BMG (distributor)

Notes: Personnel: Dar Williams (vocals, guitar); Alison Krauss (vocals, fiddle); John Popper (vocals, harmonica); Cliff Eberhardt (vocals); Eric Bazilian (guitar, mandolin); Steuart Smith (guitar, 12-string guitar, piano); Bela Fleck (banjo); David Mansfield (violin); Michael Kang (fiddle); Chris Botti (trumpet); Rob Hyman (piano, Hammond B-3 organ, melodica); John Medeski (Hammond B-3 organ); John Medeski (keyboards); Steffan Lessard, William Wittman, Stewart Lerman, Paul Sokolow (bass); Steve Holley, Sammy Merendino (drums); Carol Steele (percussion). Recorded at the Shinebox, New York, New York. This is an Enhanced CD, which contains both regular audio tracks and multimedia computer files. Personnel: Dar Williams (vocals, guitar); John Popper (vocals, harmonica); Cliff Eberhardt, Alison Krauss (vocals); Steuart Smith (guitar, 12-string guitar, E-bow, harmonica, piano); Eric Bazilian (guitar, mandolin); Stewart Lerman (guitar, keyboards); B�la Fleck (banjo); David Mansfield, Michael Kang (violin); Rob Hyman (melodica, piano, reed organ, Wurlitzer organ, keyboards); Chris Botti (trumpet); John Medeski (piano, Clavinet); Steve Holley, Sammy Merendino (drums); Carol Steele (percussion). Audio Mixers: Steve Addabbo; William Wittman. Recording information: DBM, Ruckersville, WV; Elmstreet Studios, Conshohocken, PA; Pilot Sound, New York, NY; Shelter Island Sound; The Sanctuary, Nashville, TN; The Shinebox, New York, NY. Photographers: Ronald K. Fierstein; Ken Schles. Dar Williams' fifth album THE BEAUTY OF THE RAIN finds the singer-songwriter getting around the loneliness of being "a girl with a guitar" and chronicling her move from New York City to Massachusetts by breaking out her little black book to reel in a number of famous names. The result is a fuller-sounding album minus the kind of forced chemistry that occurs when it's an artist's label rather than the artist who arranges such an all-star affair. This organically flowing record benefits from the contributions of people like Alison Krauss (the harmony-brushed "The One Who Knows"), Blues Traveler's John Popper (a chugging "I Saw a Bird Fly Away"), and trumpeter Chris Botti (the subdued title cut). Other guests are more content to blend into the musical background, be it Bela Fleck (a twangy "Fishing in the Morning") or Medeski, Martin & Wood organist John Medeski (the stirring "Farewell to the Old Me.") RAIN also finds Williams delivering a chilling reading of the Band's "Whispering Pines" and forming a rare songwriting partnership with former Hooter Rob Hyman (the lightly trilling "Closer to Me.")

Rolling Stone (3/6/03, p.70) - 3 stars out of 5 - "...Williams is an earnest and unadorned vocalist....She seems more at ease than ever..." Dirty Linen (06-07/03, p.87) - "...Bursts out of the starting blocks with the breathtaking rush of 'The World's Not Falling Apart'..."

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.

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