CLASSIC RECORDS LP RTH2816-1: Dar Williams - The Honesty Room - OOP 1993 USA SS

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Good luck trying to find one of these! The pop titles issued by Classic Records disappeared and went out of print rather quickly. Not many made it to market and are likely even rarer than their famous classical or jazz titles. This is one such title, in the folk music genre, and best of all, it's still factory sealed!

Dar Williams (Dorothy Snowden Williams, born April 19, 1967) is an American singer-songwriter specializing in pop folk. Hendrik Hertzberg of the The New Yorker has described Williams as "one of America’s very best singer-songwriters." She is a frequent performer at folk festivals and has toured with such artists as Mary Chapin Carpenter, Patty Griffin, Ani DiFranco, The Nields, Shawn Colvin, Girlyman, Joan Baez, and Catie Curtis.

Williams was born in Mount Kisco, New York, and grew up in Chappaqua with two older sisters, Meredith and Julie. Her nickname "Dar" originated due to a mispronunciation of "Dorothy" by one of Williams's sisters. Recently, in an interview with WUKY radio, Dar said her parents wanted to name her Darcy, after the character in Pride and Prejudice, and that they intentionally called her "Dar-Dar", which she shortened to "Dar" in school.

In interviews, she has described her parents as "liberal and loving" people who early on encouraged a career in songwriting. Williams began playing the guitar at age nine and wrote her first song two years later. However, she was more interested in drama at the time, and majored in theater and religion at Wesleyan University.

Williams moved to Boston, Massachusetts in 1990 to further explore a career in theater. She worked for a year as stage manager of the Opera Company of Boston, but on the side began to write songs, record demo tapes, and take voice lessons with now Celebrity Voice and Performance Coach Jeannie Deva. Jeannie encouraged her to try performing at coffeehouses, but her early years performing were made difficult by the intimidating nature of the Boston folk music scene, as well as her own battle with stage fright. In 1990, Dar recorded her first album, "I Have No History" produced by Jeannie Deva and engineered by Rob Lehmann at Oak Grove Studios in Malden, MA. One year later in 1991, Dar recorded her second album, "All My Heroes Are Dead" also produced by Jeannie Deva and engineered by Huck Bennert, most of which was recorded at Wellspring Sound in Newton, MA. This album included Dar's song: "Mark Rothko Song." The original recording production of this song was later included in her third album "The Honesty Room." In 1993 Williams moved to Northampton, Massachusetts. Early in Williams's music career, she opened for Joan Baez, who would make her relatively well known by recording some of her songs (Williams also dueted with Baez on Ring Them Bells). Her growing popularity has since relied heavily on community coffeehouses, public radio, and an extensive fan base on the Internet.

Williams recorded her first full album, The Honesty Room, under her own label, Burning Field Music. Guest artists included Nerissa and Katryna Nields, Max Cohen and Gideon Freudmann. The album was briefly distributed by Chicago-based Waterbug Records. Williams soon secured a licensing-and-distribution deal for Burning Field with Razor and Tie, and in 1995 reissued the album on that label, with two re-recorded bonus tracks. The record went on to become one of the top-selling independent folk albums of the year. 1996's Mortal City, also licensed and distributed with Razor and Tie, received substantial notice, partially due to the fact that it coincided with her tour with Baez. The album again featured guest appearances by the Nields sisters and Freudmann, as well as noted folk artists John Prine, Cliff Eberhardt and Lucy Kaplansky. With that success, Razor & Tie re-released The Honesty Room. By the time of her third release, End of The Summer (1997), Williams' career had gathered substantial momentum, and the album did remarkably well, given its genre and independent label status.

In 1998, Williams, Richard Shindell and Lucy Kaplansky formed the group Cry Cry Cry as a way to pay homage to some of their favorite folk artists. The band released an eponymous album of covers and toured from 1998 to 2000.

She has since released six more studio albums on the Razor & Tie label (The Green World (2000; which included "Spring Street", based on Spring Street in SoHo in Manhattan), The Beauty of the Rain (2003), My Better Self (2005), Promised Land (2008)), Many Great Companions (2010), and In the Time of Gods (2012), as well as two live albums (Out There Live (2001) and Live at Bearsville Theater (2007)).

Williams has lent her talent and support to various causes, founding the Snowden Environmental Trust and taking part in many benefit concerts. She performed in a show at Alcatraz with Baez and the Indigo Girls, to benefit the prisoner-rights group Bread and Roses.

As someone who has toured a great deal of the time and had trouble finding suitable dining on the road, Williams was inspired to write and publish a directory of natural food stores and restaurants called The Tofu Tollbooth in 1994. In 1998 Williams co-authored a second edition with Elizabeth Zipern.

On May 4, 2002, she married Michael Robinson, an old friend from college. Their son, Stephen Gray Robinson, was born on April 24, 2004. In addition, they have an adopted daughter named Taya, who was born in Ethiopia. She currently resides in Cold Spring, New York.

Williams writes from personal experience, and many of her songs are based on people she grew up with. She doesn't force herself to write, which is an approach she learned in college when she decided that whatever she could do at any given time was enough. She prides herself on having songs that all came from some kind of inspiration.

Williams wants her music to be an "efficient career," something she can do her entire life. She strives to accomplish this by "continuously court[ing] your muse; to keep writing stuff that feels risky about things you believe in, that you're really feeling."

The Honesty Room is an album by Dar Williams.

• CLASSIC RECORDS / Rock The House LP item.

• Record Made in the USA

• Pressing is in STEREO

• Record Speed: 33 1/3 rpm

• Earliest (and best) version of this audiophile reissue by Classic Records - using 180-gram premium vinyl, this title is long out of print.
  

• Record Made in: circa 1990's - original LP was issued in 1993 by Burning Field Music / Razor & Tie Entertainement.
  

• Record Catalog Number: RTH 2816-1

Featured on this item:

Dar Williams

LP Title:

The Honesty Room

Track Listing -

All songs written by Dar Williams

1. When I Was a Boy
2. Alleluia
3. The Great Unknown
4. When Sal's Burned Down
5. The Babysitter's Here
6. You're Aging Well
7. Traveling Again (Traveling I)
8. In Love But Not at Peace
9. Mark Rothko Song
10. This Is Not the House That Pain Built
11. I Love, I Love (Traveling II)

Performers on this LP include -

Adam Rothberg - Organ, Guitar (Acoustic), Dobro, Accordion, Guitar (Electric), Xylophone, Producer, Guitar (Bass), Conga
Max Cohen - Electric Guitar
Gideon Freudmann - Cello
Craig Eastman - Mandolin, Viola, Violin
Tom McClung - Piano
Rebecca Koehler - Violin
Katryna Nields - Choir, Chorus
Nerissa Nields - Choir, Chorus
Jaimé Morton - Handclapping
Dar Williams - Guitar (Acoustic), Vocals
Mark Dann - Bass, Guitar (Electric)
Guy DeVito - Bass

CONDITION Details:

LP JACKET:

• The LP jacket is in Mint, FACTORY SEALED condition!

• The jacket has NO seam splits - it is completely intact and has a silver sticker from the manufacturer on the outside plastic wrap (see picture for more detail).

• The jacket has NO drill holes or saw marks of any kind.
  

• The outer plastic cellophane (bag) wrap is NOT torn in any way. 

• There is NO hand writing on the front or back of the jacket.

• The cover has clean and sharp colors - see pictures with this listing for more detail. 

The LP (vinyl) itself:

• The LP is assumed to be in MINT condition as well as this item is FACTORY SEALED!!

• This is the mint copy you have always wanted in your collection - any super picky audiophile would be happy with this one!

A Short Note About LP GRADING -

• Mint = Only used for sealed items.
• Near Mint = Virtually flawless in every way.
• Near Mint Minus = Item has some minor imperfections, some audible.
• Excellent = Item obviously played and enjoyed with some noise.
• Very Good Plus = Many more imperfections which are noticeable and obtrusive.

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