Music : The Beauty of the Rain
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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0793018288620
Format: Enhanced
Label: Razor & Tie
Manufacturer: Razor & Tie
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: Razor & Tie
Release Date: February 18, 2003
Sales Rank: 50673
Studio: Razor & Tie
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Album Description:
Dar Williams delivers her most stunning work to date with The Beauty Of The Rain, showcasing a new, fuller sound and her master at mapping out the emotional terrain of people whose lives are in transition. Produced by Rob Hyman (Joan Osborne, Hooters) and Stewart Lerman (Laurie Anderson), The Beauty Of The Rain features guest appearances by a remarkable roster of talent: platinum artist Alison Krauss on vocals, Bela Fleck on banjo, John Popper (Blues Traveler) manning the harmonica and backup vocals, Stefan Lessard (Dave Matthews Band) on bass, electro-jazz wiz John Medeski (Medeski, Martin & Wood) on keyboards, Chris Botti on trumpet, and Michael Kang (String Cheese Incident) on fiddle.
Alison Krauss, Bela Fleck, John Medeski, Stefan Lessard, Chris Botti and John Popper among guests joining Dar on this album.
24 bit / 96 kHz DVD-Audio, 24 bit / 48 kHz Dolby Digital 5.1, and stereo options
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Amazon.com:
With each release, this East Coast singer-songwriter moves farther from the strictures of folk into the musical mainstream. While Dar Williams's artistic trademarks--lyrical introspection, melodic warmth, an occasional tendency toward breathy vocal preciousness--remain much in evidence on this collection, produced by Stewart Lerman and Rob Hyman, the expanded musical support adds more rhythmic propulsion and layers of harmonies to the mix. Among the highlights are "I Saw a Bird Fly Away," featuring the harmonica chirp and background vocals of Blues Traveler's John Popper and the keyboard of John Medeski, and a hymnlike transformation of the Band's "Whispering Pines," with vocal counterpoint from Cliff Eberhardt and harmonies from Alison Krauss. Other musicians making key contributions include banjoist Béla Fleck, trumpeter Chris Botti, bassist Stefan Lessard (Dave Matthews Band), and fiddler Mike Kang (String Cheese Incident). Titles such as "Farewell to the Old Me" and "I Have Lost My Dreams" reinforce the spirit of transformation, though one of the strongest cuts here, "Mercy of the Fallen," sticks closest to folk convention. --Don McLeese
Average Rating: 
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Not sure about this one. She has a lot of talent. I've been listening to her music since her cover of Better Things off of The End of the Summer, which was very good. What do you hear in these sounds? is one of the best songs about therapy I've EVER heard
But most of the songs here don't really leave much of an impression. Closer to you is a good song, nice and catchy. But a lot of this music is incredibly sad, or at the very least melancholy
You gotta give her points for ... Read More
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Just stumbled across the inane "review" that was posted for "The Beauty of the Rain" DVD-Audio. DVD-A's aren't meant to be played on computers, so I don't see why Dar's excellent album should get a misleading one-star rating because the buyer erred with their purchase.
For those who have a compatible universal player, the DVD-A of this album is fantastic. You'll hear lots of musical details that you won't on the regular CD.
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"The Beauty of the Rain" is overall a sad, soul baring CD. The best song on the album in "Closer to Me" about a couple growing up to grow together. It was even featured on an episode of Laguna Beach. "Mercy of the Fallen" and "I Saw a Bird Fly Away" are both fairly catchy, but I don't think I really understand the songs. "The World's Not Falling Apart" is probably the most upbeat song on the album.
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Unfortunately, this is not the format in which to buy this great CD. I can't play it in my computer's CD player, because it isn't a DVD player, and I can't use iTunes to copy it into my iPod. Get the regular CD!
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This album sets thought provoking lyrics to beautiful melodies that pleasantly haunt your soul. It was only a few months ago that I unintenionally stumbled upon "The Beauty of the Rain" (on the internet), and was captivated by the song, and by the extraorinarily gifted, Dar Williams.
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