Anais Mitchell, interview
The recorded version features Ani DiFranco, singer/playwright Greg Brown, the Low Anthem's Ben Knox-Miller and Mitchell's good friend Justin Vernon, who is better known as the Grammy-winning Bon Iver.
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The recorded version features Ani DiFranco, singer/playwright Greg Brown, the Low Anthem's Ben Knox-Miller and Mitchell's good friend Justin Vernon, who is better known as the Grammy-winning Bon Iver.
Read MoreZola Books lists 40 of Jack Kerouac's favorite books and authors.
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The 16-year-old singer/songwriter's voice has the same timbre as Kasey Chambers, or a young Maria McKee, and in that voice I hear the echoes of records I've loved for longer than she's been alive.
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Occasionally, somebody gets it completely right on the very first try.
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Singer/songwriter Dar Williams, in conjunction with The Message , have released what they are calling "a music video in response to the War On Women."
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Singer-songwriter Dar Williams - along with the website The Message http://themessageis.com - have released a music video in response to the alleged War On Women.
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Let's get into "I Am The One Who Will Remember" from your new album In The Time Of Gods. Dar Williams : Sure!
Read MoreWine Enthusiast offers lists Paris's literary bar scene.
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Put up a chair; there's piping hot newness in store from the likes of Dar Williams, Duke Robillard, Hank Williams III, Jon Cleary and Lurrie Bell , as well as sizzling reissues and concert souvenirs from Blue Oyster Cult, Cowboy Junkies, Donovan, the Grateful Dead and Janis Joplin — not to mention the Tom Moulton remixes of favorite cuts from Philadelphia International.
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Dar Williams might be one of the few singer-songwriters around who could take the age-old fables surrounding Zeus and Aphrodite, and smartly connect them to our current state of affairs.
Read MoreThe San Francisco Bay Guardian interviews Jay Rubin and J. Philip Gabriel about translating the works of Haruki Murakami.
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Folk singer Dar Williams has an entry on my "Had To Sit In The Car After Arriving At Work To Get The Scoop On That Song!" list.
Read MoreThe Atlantic lists 10 fantastic novels with terrible endings.
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Rickie Lee Jones, Natalie Merchant, Lori Mckenna, The Sundays, Bjork, Kate Bush, Ani DiFranco and Dar Williams?
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Levon Helm, the Grammy-winning co-founding member of the Band, is set to undergo an undisclosed medical procedure that will keep him from performing for at least a month.
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In 2007, Chicagoan, Nicole Sotelo, a Harvard-trained theologian and author, read a searing account of Congolese rape victims.
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We must prove ourselves worthy of our children.
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We have Hugh Laurie on the line right now, don't we?
Read MoreThere's this band from NY that my ears have been noshing on for some time now.
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In the fall of 1991, I was a high school senior, just starting to find my feet as a music writer — and as a listener, just discovering pathways into forms and genres I never knew existed during my Top 40 youth.
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One day back in 1996, I was on my way to work and heard this terrific song … about a kid playing in the backyard?
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*Note: I had every intention of seeing bands on Friday, but due to unfortunate circumstances, instead of watching people hula hoop to Widespread Panic, I ended up playing pool at a bar in downtown Louisville.
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