
This page
links to articles and interviews with or about Dar Williams.
It includes radio,
print and on-line articles.
Look
for the
symbol for recently added articles.
- A "snapshot" of Dar
written
by her new managent for the press (Nov. 2006)
- The press release from
Razor and Tie on
the release of My Better Self.
- The press release from
Scholastic
Books on the release of Dar's first book Amalee
- The press release from
Razor and Tie
on the release of Beauty of the Rain
- The press
release from Razor and Tie on the release of Out There Live.
- A Dar
biography, culled from sources all over the place and the veritable
cornucopia of information I have in my head about her career.
- Dar is a big supporter of
mpower, musicians for mental health. This link takes
you to an interview with Dar about mental health on the mpower website.
There is also a short clip of Dar speaking about it.
- Former
booking agent
Fleming/Tamulevich's Dar biography
from July 2000.
- Dar's Lilith
Fair bio. I think it's from 1997. There's some quotes from Dar.
- Note from
Charlie
Hunter, Dar's former manager, about her first signing with Razor and
Tie in 1994.
- "Better
Things" is a short little interview with Dar in the Eugene (Oregon) Weekly. By Suzi
Steffen, February 1, 2007
- "Singer
brings 'Better Self' Williams keeping in tune with the environment"
by Jon Gilbertson from the February 22, 2007 Milwaukee Journal Sentinal.
- Dar's February 25, 2007 interview
on WNUR radio with host Ron Lewis is available as a podcast. The
show
includes the premier of the song The Easy Way.
- This article is mostly about student anti-war
protests at SUNY New Paltz but Dar is mentioned. Students say
they're fed up with war by Eleni Kostopoulos in the New Paltz Oracle, March 15, 2007.
- "Dar
Williams not overwhelmed by the mother load," in the Trenton, NJ Times talks about Dar turning 40
and much more. March 30, 2007 (no byline).
- "At
local church, Dar
Williams sings for peace," has a bit of Dar interview, a bit of
concert
rehash from her show in Princeton on March 31 and some comments from
members of the audience. By Owen Fletcher in the Daily Princetonian, Monday, April
2, 2007.
- "Live,
like a refugee," is a short Q&A in Chronogram Magazine. By
Robert Burke, October 29, 2007
- A short interview with Dar
from the Fairfield, Ct. Mirror.
"Discover
folk darling Dar Williams," by Marie Montgomery, November 1, 2007.
- Big Dar fan Paul
Mepschen in the Netherlands has
written the first Dar article of 2006. It's in Dutch and entitled ’Raak niet verdoofd!’
and ran in the January/February 2006 issue of Heaven magazine.
- One of the rare articles
about Dar that's been published recently is this one entitled "Self-Made Woman" from
the St. Louis, Mo., Riverfront
Times. April 5, 2006.
- There's a "Dar
Williams Interview"
in the June 2006 issue of The
Progressive, a peace and justice magazine. She discusses
politics, My Better Self and more with Matthew Rothschild.
- There's an article from the
Westchester, NY The Journal News
about the benefits for Democratic Congressional candidate John Hall
that Dar did with Jackson Browne and Pete Seeger. "Guitar
Heavyweights jam for candidate Hall" by Susan Elan, June 4, 2006.
- "Think
Locally, Act Vocally" is an article by Walter Tunis in the
Lexington, Ky. Herald Leader, June
11, 2006
- An article in the Chicago
Tribune, called "Fans,
readers hang on
Williams' every word," gives a bit of insight into how Dar got into
writing kids' books and talks about Lights,
Camera, Amalee, her latest book. By Chrissie Dickinson, July 23,
2006.
- "Dar Williams brings
'Better Self' to Crier" is a short article from the Times-Herald Record in the Hudson
Valley. August 11, 2006.
- "Playtime With
room to dream in childhood" was published in the Lowell, Ma. Sun on August 18, 2006 by Christine
Phelan.
- "Two
visions of song" is an interesting article that compares Dar and
Ferron's backgrounds and how it affects their songwriting. Both were
appearing at the Ottawa Folk Festival, hence the basis for the article.
By Patrick Langston, The
Ottawa Citizen, August 19, 2006.
- Justice Through Music has a
series of interviews with Dar that have been done over the past year or
so where she discusses politics, her music and more. Links to them are here.
- Dar is quoted in an article about
John Hall being elected to Congress. "Guitarist
resonates with N.Y. voters" from the Los Angeles Times,
November 24, 2006.
- A short Q&A with Dar in the
Portland Herald Press entitled "Songs
to Books" by Aimsel L. Ponti, December 7, 2006.
- The first article about Dar's new
CD My Better Self appeared
July 21, 2005 on Rolling Stones website. Dar
Covers Niel, Floyd by Brian Orloff.
- Dar appeared on Air America's
Morning Sedition show on August 4, 2005. You can hear the archive of
the show here.
Her segment starts at about 1:35.
- Dar takes the WFUV pop quiz.
September 2005
- Foster's
Online from Dover, NH has an interview with Dar. The first of many, I
would suggest, from Better Self tour. Dar Williams brings her 'better self' to
Exeter by Ryan Alan, Sunday Sept. 18, 2005
- Motherhood leads Williams to
her less intentional
self is a short article by Scott Alarik from the
Boston Globe. Sept. 22, 2005.
- Seeking a better World is an
article from the San Francisco Chronicle by J. Poet, Oct. 9, 2005.
- Dar talks about My Better Self and
gets political in this November 2, 2005 interview on
Progressive Radio.
- An amusing article with a
boring title from the Rochester Democrat & Chronicle, Dar Williams performs tonight at Water
Street by Jeff Spevak, Nov. 10, 2005.
- A short article in the
Pittsburgh Tribune Revue; Williams puts topical spin in new CD
by Alan Sculley, Nov. 10, 2005.
- Dar's interview on CKUT on
Novebmer 28, 2005 is in the
station's archives. Her songs are played throughout the show but the
interview is short and starts about 2/3 of the way through. Go here and click
on "dykes on mykes" in the pulldown menu.
- A quick hit in Toronto's Metro about
Dar's first job. November 29, 2005.
- Eye on the Empire is in the
University of Toronto's Varsity newspaper. By Tabassum Siddiqui,
November 29, 2005.
- Dar Williams makes brave choices
is from The Ottawa Sun by Allan Wigney, November 30, 2005.
- Creating
a better self is not the best article but it's an interview
with Dar in the November 30, 2005 issue of Toronto's York
University's Excalibur newspaper. Written by Mike Grasso.
- Dar's End of the Summer is included in a list of back to school tunes that
includes Pink Floyd's Another Brick in The Wall and “Hot for Teacher”
by Van Halen. By Michael Venture on MSNBC. August 31, 2004
- Inching Forward is the first
real interview with Dar since George W. Bush was re-elected, much to
her chagrin. It's a Q&A style article by Brita Brundage in the Fairfield County
Weekly. November 18, 2004.
- A preview with a bit of an
interview: Dar Williams keeps up a social commentary
by Karen Iris Tucker in the Bergen Record. November 19, 2004.
- There's a pretty good article by Jason A.
Killingsworth in Paste Magazine's January
2003 issue. It's called The
Beauty of Living. Dar
talks about the new CD and life in general.
- Here's an article from a local music store mag, Manifesto, from
Rasputin Music in Berkeley, Ca. (Feb 2003). It's called Dar
Williams exhibits all of her considerable talents on her dark and
gorgeous new album, by j poet. There's an intersting bit about
Dar's Enron stocks being used to support the SET.
- The Washington Blade has an article The Beauty of
Dar : Dar Williams, a straight
shooter and honorary lesbian, talks to the Blade about her music, by
Jen Mabe, Feb. 21, 2003. It's a
weird one, not to
mention many of Dar's fans knew she was straight before The Advocate
told us!
- Dar
Williams
'Beauty' Drizzles Down is an article in the Georgetown University Hoya
from February 21, 2003 by Nicole Diament.
- Music
Connection Magazine
has a lengthy feature on Dar by Jonathan Widram. March 16, 2003.
- Dar was a
guest on the NPR show The
Infinite Mind: Depression
in the Brain in the last
week of March. She
spoke about being
depressed in college and the song After All. The whole show is no
longer available online but here's a link to an MP3 of the Dar portion of
the show.
- You can hear Dar's March interview on the Acoustic
Cafe radio program online at mlive.com.
- The Decision
that Almost Derailed Her Career is a Q&A interview from
Music Connection magazine by Jonathan Widram, March 3-16, 2003.
- Delicate Downpour:
A conversation with Dar Williams, conducted by Tim Pulice in Inside
Borders magazine, April 2003
- Dar Williams' "Slow
Beauty" is an article by Brian Orloff from a fabulous music,
art, culture website called Neumu. April
4, 2003
- The Hampshire Gazette,
from Western Massachusetts, has an article called Patience
shows its beauty for Dar Williams in the April 10, 2003 issue.
- Another solid article from Scott Alarik of the Boston Globe appeared in
the April 11, 2003 issue.
- City living changes the way Dar Williams sees the
world and music, By Rashod
D. Ollison, The
Baltimore Sun, April 17, 2003.
This same article also ran in the Kansas City Star, and the
Everett, Wash., Daily Herald.
- Williams
Slams Industry
is a story from the Fredricksburg, Virginia, newspaper which talks
about
how the entertainment industry stifles dissent. There's an error
in
it though: Dar doesn't own her Razor and Tie, she is one of the artists
on
that independant label. By Michael Zitz, April 18, 2003.
- Dar Williams takes her time for beautiful
CD 'Rain' is a short piece by Wendy Case in the Detroit
News. April 18, 2003
- Dar
Williams spreading a little 'beauty' on tour is a pretty good
article from the Chicago Sun-Times. April 20, 2003 by Dave Hoekstra.
- Folkie
Williams thrives on N.Y. Bustle
is a story from Milwaukee Journal Sentinel April 21, 2003 by Dave
Tianen.
This article also ran in the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette under the
headline Country girl Dar Williams finds charms in city’s nature on
May 6, 2003.
-
Dar Williams Moves to the Mainstream from the Salt Lake Tribune. By
Christy Karras, May 2, 2003.
- There's a mention of Dar in The Boulder, Co., Daily Camera column
by Sebastian.
May 2, 2003.
- There's a shortie called Dar
Williams keeps logging the tour miles on the liveDaily website.
By Rob Evans, May 5, 2003.
- There's an article from the San Francisco Bay-area Mercury News
called Singer
makes the most of collaborations by Jon Matsumoto, May 9, 2003. (Lost
article - if anyone has a copy, please e-mail us).
- Here's a press release
on the
Solar Electric Light Fund's draw for a trip to Bhutan that is being
given
away as part of the promotional work Dar is doing with the group.
- FolkWax e-zine had an interview by Kerry Dexter with Dar, FolkWax sittin' in with Dar
Williams, in the May 14, 2003 issue.
- Dar
Williams At Home on the Road and the World by Greg Reifsteck
from Campus Circle, May 2003.
- There's a shortie piece in the Nashville
City Paper by Ron Wynne, May 28, 2000
- There's a June 2003
interview and some songs with Dar on New Jersey radio station WBJB's
web site.
- Dar's live June 16, 2003 appearance on the Woodsongs
radio show
is now up in their archives. It's a video of the live radio taping plus
more.
It's in Windows Media and you can't fast forward through it, so it's
like
watching it live all over again. This link will take you to the details
page - at the top of it is a link to go back to the show listings -
click on that and look for show #261.
- The MIT Tech newspaper ran a nice long and interesting
Q&A interview with Dar called the Beauty of Dar by Keith J.
Winstein. June 18, 2003.
- Read the official
press release for The Songwriters Tour Dar is doing with Mary
Chapin Carpenter, Shawn Colvin, and Patty Griffin. August 4, 2003.
- Folsky
is as folksy does is article from the Vail Daily. August 4,
2003 by Wren Wertin.
- There isa short and sweet article on Dar, Dar Williams Fuels her music
with curiosity, in the August 9, 2003 edition of the Edmonton
Journal by Todd Babiak.
- Dar is quoted in an article in the Colorado Daily that's mainly
about the local Folks Festival. A singer/songwriter's paradise by Wendy Cale, August 10, 2003.
- Dar Williams
has a knack for life was the cover article, by Steve
Baylin, of the August 21, 2003 issue of the Ottawa Xpress weekly
entertainment newspaper.
- The Ottawa Citizen ran an interview with Dar as a preview to her
headlining
the first Thursday night show of the Ottawa Folk Festival. Hanging on to her dreams, by
Lynne Saxberg, August 21, 2003.
- The following day, August 22, 2003, the Ottawa Citizen ran
a review of her show
with some of her pithy onstage comments.
- 4
Singer Songwriters Team Up for Tour is
the first article about the Songwriter Tour Dar is doing with Mary
Chapin
Carpenter, Shawn Colvin, and Patty Griffin. By Jay Lustig, Newark,
N.J.,
Star-Ledger, September 12, 2003.
- The St. Paul Star Tribune has a piece
on the Songwriter Tour, Four on the
floor, in which Dar talks about going shopping with the
gals. By John Bream, October 12, 2003.
- Pop
Matters has an interview with Dar. Dar
Williams, the happy tortoise, 13 October 2003, by
Jennifer Bendery.
- Dar Williams and fellow songsters make
harmony appeared in the Cleveland Plain Dealer on October
17, 2003. By Michael Sangiacomo.
- Four formidadle females raise voices
has amusing biographies of the members of the Songwriter Tour. October
24, 2003, Charlotte, N.C.
- Williams is inspired and intimidated by
tourmates by Christine Hawes from the Sarasota Herald
Tribune. October 41, 2003
- Melody
Alderman has a
review of the Singer Songwriter show in Seattle on Northwest
Music Scene. While ordinarily the library
doesn't have reviews, this one tells the tale of Dar letting her fans
know she's pregnant with her first child. There are also a bunch of
photos and other links you can browse through at the same time.
November 16, 2003
- The first article of the year in
the Charlottesville Daily
Progress with quite a bit of information on what Dar is up to
at
the moment. By Kate Andrews, Jan. 18, 2002.
- At
the end of January, Dar talked candidly with DarWilliams.Net in a
special
interview to get her fans up to date with what she's doing these days.
It's all on one page but was originally posted in parts: Part
I - Part II - Part
III - Part IV
- Teen Magazine has a feature
called
The Best You've Never Heard Of and there's a short article on Dar, "the
best singer you've never heard of." There's one glaring error and
that's
the inclusion of Keepers of Time as one of Dar's CDs. In fact,
there
is no such recording, that was one of the early names for End of
the
Summer. January 2002.
- Dar was on the Democracy
Now! radio
show on the Pacifica network on Friday, Jan. 25th. You can listen
to the interview and a few songs here.
You'll need RealAudio.
- As
Cool As She Is by Jeff Cannon for the Indiana Daily Student.
Jeff did a little bit of an interview with your friendly webmaster, so
I'm quoted in there right along with Dar. March 28, 2002.
- Dar was on
the NPR show
Marketplace on April 12, 2002, in a show about the "alternative"
vs. corporate music business. The show mainly discusses house concerts
but Dar talks specifically about how the internet brought her a
significant
amount of support and exposure and boosted her career. Click here
for the archives. It's at about 20 minutes in.
- An article
in the Washington
Post about the US Supreme Court has small bit on Dar's private
performance for Justice Sandra Day O'Connor. By Charles Lane, May 6,
2002.
- Dar's
appearance on
radio station WNYC's Soundcheck
on July 30 is available at online. She is on for the first
19
minutes of the show and plays After All and Fishing In The Morning.
- The New
York Times magazine has an article called Queer
as Folk about lesbians and folk music. It's long . . . Dar is
interviewed somewhere near the bottom. By David Hadju, August 18, 2002.
You have to register (free) to read the New York Times online.
- Here is Dar's response
to the Queer as Folk article. It was never published, although sent as
a
letter to the editor to the NYT magazine. September 16, 2002.
- Here
is a scan of
the page with a photo and small blurb that includes Dar. It was in
the Nov. 2002 music issue of Vanity Fair magazine.
- A short story in the Peterborough
(Ontario) Examiner written by your webmistress Gail J. Cohen.
Published
Jan. 26, 2001.
- Nobody's
Yoko Ono from the Ottawa Sun. By Ian Nathanson , Jan. 25, 2001.
There's
a couple of factual errors but what can you do.
- Fighting
for free speech by Sam McManis in the San Francisco Chronicle,
Feb. 23, 2001. There's a great quote from Dar at the end of this piece.
- Dar
Williams' CD produces grace notes, March 4, 200, by Scott
McLennan
in the Worcester, Ma. Telegram. (This link is down at the moment).
- Dar comes out as a total straight
girl in
this article from the Washington
Blade. March 23, 2001 by Kristina Campbell.
- Go
Ahead, Say It by
Amy Kroin
is a Valley Advocate interview with Dar about her upcoming
appearance
in the stage production of the Vagina Monologues. It's also got
an interview with Eve Ensler, creator of VM.
- Dirty Linen magazine had a
hilarious
article on Folk Toys.
Here's
the Dar part. It's our favourite singer as you've never seen her
before.
From the April/May 2001 issue.
- Dar is the cover girl for the
June/July issue
of Dirty Linen
magazine. There's an excerpt of the interview posted on the magazine's
website.
- Dar talks about learning guitar
and how she
goes about making music in this August 27, 2001 interview for guitarnoise.com
by
Laura Lasley.
- A Q&A with Dar by Peter Bate
on the Americana
UK website, September 2001.
- Dar talks about her faith in an
interview
with Beliefnet.com.
October 2001 by Rebecca Phillips.
- Dar
Williams: Out
There Living is an interview on the online 'zine for indy music Splendid.
It's from 2001 sometime around when The Green World Came out. I believe
the interview was done by Theodore Defosse, a founding member of Blue
Man
Group.
- Dar talks about living in New
York, September
11, Another Mystery, growing up and more in an interview with the San
Francisco
Gate. She's
'Out There,' Oct. 16, 2001 by J. Poet.
- Building
a career slowly but surely is from the San Francisco Bay-area
Mercury News. By Paul Freeman, October 19, 2001. (Lost
article - if anyone has a copy, please e-mail us)
- Folk
singer pokes fun at herself and the world by
Christina McCarroll in The Christian Science Monitor, November 2, 2001.
- Dar
to be different is an article from the gay and lesbian
magazine The
Advocate. by Karen Iris Tucker, November 6, 2001
- A
road well travelled by David Freak on the The
Birmingham
(England) Post's website, November 19, 2001.
- Dar joins BBC4
Woman's Hour to explain more about the inspiration behind the
album,
and performs songs from The Green World live in the studio. You'll need
RealPlayer to listen. November 27, 2001.
- BBC News Online has a piece about
Dar by William
Gallagher (who used darwilliams.net for research, so go read it!)
called Dar's
Words Say It All. December 19, 2001.
- Here's another
Q&A with Dar on
the American
UK site. By Mark Whitfield, December 2001.
- The Wall Street Journal
has an
article on the end of the collaboration Cry Cry Cry. By James Ring
Adams, January 17, 2000.
- A really great interview on the
radio show
Public Interest at WAMU,
the station in Washington, D.C. Dar joined guest host Frank Stasio for
an hour of live music and conversation. Aired March 6, 2000.
- Culture
over Commerce,
an
interview done with Dar before the 2000 Winnipeg Folk Festival in July.
By Rachel Stone.
- The
New
York Times had an article about Dar and the Falcon Ridge Folk
Festival
on July 16, 2000. Written by E. Kyle Minor.
- Dar Williams courts the
masses
in Billboard magazine. Article by Carla Hay appeared in the Aug. 5,
2000
issue. This is the link to Billboard.com's
on-line version, which is slightly different/shorter than the print
version,
which I will have up shortly.
- Dar Williams Offers Entry To
The Green
World posted on sonicnet
Aug. 15, 2000, by Kerry Dexter.
- Time Out New York had an article
on Dar in
the August 17-24 issue. Americana
beauty is written by Stephen McGill. Dar 'comes out' as a
straight
girl (There's a BIG surprise. Pay attention!)
- Dar
Williams is wiser about coming of age By Scott Alarik, who has
known Dar for years, in the Boston Globe August 20, 2000.
- New York
Newsday has
a Fast Chat with Dar
Williams
from August 20, 2000.
- Dar did a
one-hour online
chat through Borders on August 21, 2000. Click
here for the transcript.
- Dar's August
20, 2000
appearance on Vin Scelsca's Idiot's
Delight has her playing lots of tunes and chatting for hours with
Vin.
- Dar's sister
Julie wrote
a piece on her former teacher that appeared in the August 24, 2000, in
the San Jose Mercury News. It
mentions
Dar.
- Dar is
quoted in an
article on Salon
about legislative amendments and sound recordings as work for hire. By
Eric Boehlert, Aug. 28, 2000.
- An article
from Mother
Jones on-line from September 2000.
- A Q&A
with Dar on Barnes
and Noble's web site. By Kerry Dexter. September 2000.
- A fabulous
article on
and with Dar in the Boston
Phoenix. Sept. 14, 2000 by Wayne Robins.
- Dar's
chat session from September 14th, 2000 on XPN/Public
Conversation
is available online.
- Talking
to Dar Williams by Pamela Burger
appeared in the Brown Daily Herald on Sept. 15, 2000.
- Toronto's
entertainment
weekly Now Magazine had a story
in
which Dar talks about dedicated fans and her 'uncertain' sexuality. By
Kim Hughes, Sept. 21, 2000.
- An article
from the Cleveland
Plain Dealer from Sept. 23, 2000 by Michael SanGiancomo.
- An
Honest Room So Green: A conversation with Dar Williams on the
World
Class Rock website. Sept. 2000. It's really long.
- A short and amusing online Q &
A with
Dar on chickclick.com.
Sept. 2000.
- Rockin'RonD's
interview with Dar Williams from the Music Matters Review. Sept. 2000.
- A Q&A at femmusic.com.
Dar talks about how she writes her songs, her experiences making TGW,
and
specifically comments on I Had No Right, Yoko Ono and Another Mystery.
Oct. 2000.
- There's a decent interview with
Dar done in the fall of 2000 for mote
magazine online. It's a very chatty kind of interview
by
Gabino Travassos and Dar even uses some colourful language!! It also
has
a section from a live radio interview Travassos did for an Edmonton,
Alberta,
radio station in 1998.
- Yahoo has a full-length
concert video and a 15 minute online interview at broadcast.com.
Not
sure of the date but it was done during The Green World tour some time
in the fall of 2000 at the Gypsy Tea Room in Dallas.
- Realizing
Magic, an
interesting article
in the Tucson Weekly where Dar talks about fame, and especially
her level of fame. By David Ryder, Oct. 12-18, 2000.
- A No-Holds Bard Lesson for
Williams
from the Los
Angeles Times by Randy Lewis. Oct. 13, 2000.
- Williams
takes ‘70s style for a spin,
BY J.D. Considine, Los Angeles Times-Washington Post News Service. This
version ran in The Herald, Calgary, Alberta. Oct. 25, 2000.
- Green
Party: A child of the liberal folk movement, Dar Williams isn't above
rocking
out by Aaron Howard in the Houston Press, Oct. 26, 2000.
- Dar
Williams: Happy in 'The Green World' By Rick Bird The Cincinnati
Post,
Nov. 3, 2000.
- Mighty
Rushes of Truth in Sojouners, a liberal Christian magazine, by
Kimberly Burge, Nov. 3 edition.
- Williams
explores the scary is a short interview done before Dar's show
in Vancouver, B.C. By John P. McLaughlin, The Province, November 5,
2000.
- Dar's interview and
performance on KANU
radio from Lawrence, KS, is archived and can be streamed via RealAudio.
Go to KANU's homepage and click on
the link to the Trail Mix show.
- An interview
with Dar in the Massachusettes-based gay weekly Bay Windows. From the
Nov.
16-22 issue.
- Dar did an interview in Lawrence,
Kansas,
with Bob McWilliam's on KANU-FM's Trail Mix show sometime in the fall
of
2000. Here's the link
to RealAudio versions of the interview.
- Dar Williams -
"I Don't
Want to Be Another Mystery" is the first article written in
Dutch that's been posted to DarWilliams.net. Nov-Dec 2000 by Paul
Mepschen.
- An on-line interview with Dar, I'm
suspecting
from 1999, in which she talks about the evolution of her career. It's
from connect2music.com.
- Listen to the Feb. 8, 1999 edition
of Michigan
Live's Acoustic Cafe featuring Cry, Cry, Cry.
- Natural
Woman,
an interview in the Winter 1999 Hemp Times. It was done as a
result
of Dar's song Play the Greed being included on the CD Hempilation 2:
Free
the Weed. Written by John Howell.
- Dar is
quoted in an
article from
CNN on web music. From Correspondent Rick Lockridge. March 3, 1999.
- HABITAT,
an article written BY Dar in the October/November 1999 issue of
Ms. magazine. It's shaped kind of like a house and I hope when you go
to
the link that it still looks that way!
- From the University of Toronto's Varsity
Review, there's an article by Gabe Sawhney from Jan. 15, 1998.
- The Ottawa Citizen has two
articles
by Lynn Saxberg from January 1998 about Dar. 1 2
- New York Times Magazine from
January 1998
has an article called Catching
Up With Cry Cry Cry by Ralph DiGennaro.
- The Victoria
(B.C.) Times Colonist has a story about Joan Baez that
talks
about Dar. It was written by John Rogers of the Associated Press and
ran
Feb. 22, 1998.
- Pollstar
article
about Dar. This is different because it takes the point of view of Dar
IN the music business. It's out of date now, written Feb. 23, 1998, but
an interesting perspective nonetheless. There's also a really cool
photo
of her that I've not seen anywhere else. Double click on the top photo
of her when you're reading the article.
- Belonging
to the movement of folk music, an
online article at Spank, a magazine on youth culture, by
editor
Robin Thompson. June 1998.
- There's a transcript
of the Borders.com chat with Dar, Richard Shindell and Lucy Kaplansky
about
Cry Cry Cry. It's from Nov. 18, 1998. (Lost
article
- if anyone has a copy, please e-mail us)
- Planes, Trains,
Automobiles
and Beyond is an article by Dar Williams in Performing Songwriter
about
life on the road. November 1998.
- The
Calgary Herald ran a story on Cry Cry Cry. The interview is
actually
with Richard Shindell. It's by By Ben Wener of Knight Ridder Newspapers
and ran in Dec. 1998.
- Cool
As Can Be by Lucy O'Brien. From the English lesbian
magazine
Diva's December 1996/January 1997 issue.
- An article
from the Village
Voice in the Winter of 1997.
- Rolling
Stone webcast recorded at The Park West in Chicago on Mar. 10, 1997.
- Tower Record's magazine Pulse
had an article mostly about the soon-to-be released End of the Summer.
April 1997.
- The
power of good songs article by Tim Sheridan on Launch.com.
Written
shortly after End of the Summer was released.
- An article from Billboard
magazine in June 1997
<> A
Rising Voice in Folk Music from the Philadelphia Inquirer by
By
Faith Quintavell. July 18, 1997.
- <>C'mon
get
Happy: Dar Wins Battle with Depression by David Veitch, Calgary
Sun, July 26, 1997
- From The
Music Matters Review interview with Dar in August 1997,
there's
an excerpt about If I Wrote You.
- There's a piece about Dar's
performance (see 6 p.m.) at Lilith Fair in the daily
press release from Aug. 19, 1997 in Milwaukee, Wisc.
- From the Oregon Voice, an
interview
from October 1997. Dar
Williams: "Ani DiFranco meets Doris Day" by Chris O'Connor.
- An article by Vickie Gilmer from the St.
Paul Pioneer Press in October 1997.
- An article about Dar's success
through the
Internet from the Christian
Science Monitor, Oct. 20, 1997. Written by Jef Scoville.
- An article in the online magazine
the Kerrville
Kronikle. The inte view with Dar Williams was conducted in her
dressing room at Labatt's Apollo, Manchester on the afternoon of Sunday
21st October 1995. A few hours later, Dar made her British stage debut
supporting Joan Baez. This is the online version but I believe the
two-part
interview can be purchased in back issues from the Kronikle's
homepage.
- Finding a new
approach
is an early interview with Dar in Performing Songwriter
magazine.
By Scott Alarik. Sept./Oct. 1994.
- Dar's intro
to the book Backstage Pass: Interviews With Women in Music.
- A DarWilliams.Net exclusive
interview with Canadian singer-songwriter Jim Bryson, the opening
act
for Dar's Nov/Dec 2001 tour of the UK.
- Dan Nooter's essay on
The Green World.
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