Promised Land (Dar Williams album)
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Reception
Template:Music ratings Slant Magazine called Promised Land "perhaps her strongest start-to-finish album since 1996's Mortal City.[1] A review from The Washington Post said the album "lacks any musical growth" though a "newcomer to her music might appreciate the tunes."[2]
The album entered the Billboard 200 album chart at #95, making it the highest-charting album of her career.[3]
Track listing
All songs are written by Dar Williams if not noted otherwise.
- "It's Alright" – 3:27
- "Book of Love" (Dar Williams, Lara Meyerratken) – 3:34
- "The Easy Way" – 3:31
- "The Tide Falls Away" (Dar Williams, Gary Louris) – 2:46
- "Buzzer" – 2:57
- "The Business of Things" – 2:31
- "You Are Everyone" – 4:30
- "Go to the Woods" – 2:54
- "Holly Tree" – 4:13
- "Troubled Times" (Adam Schlesinger, Chris Collingwood) – 3:34
- "Midnight Radio" (Stephen Trask) – 4:27
- "Summerday" (Dar Williams, Rob Hyman) – 3:22
The song "Buzzer" was inspired by the Milgram experiment; "Midnight Radio" is a cover of a song from Hedwig and the Angry Inch, written by a friend of hers from college.[4] "Troubled Times" is a cover of a Fountains of Wayne song from that band's 1999 album Utopia Parkway.
References
- ↑ Review of Promised Land from Slant Magazine
- ↑ Review of Promised Land from The Washington Post
- ↑ ...Dar Williams Enters Top 100 with Highest Charting Album, a September 2008 Razor & Tie press release
- ↑ Dar Williams: Time, Tides And Empty Spaces, from the website of National Public Radio's Weekend Edition Sunday