​Dar Williams (from the album Hummingbird Highway

​Dar Williams (from the album Hummingbird Highway

​Dar Williams (from the album Hummingbird Highway available on Righteous Babe Records) (by Danny McCloskey)
Train-track rhythms proclaim a homecoming in “Hummingbird Highway”, the title cut for the recent release from Dar Williams. The tune begins the song cycle on the album, her thirteenth studio record. For the album title choice, Dar Williams hears it as a metaphor for life, sharing that ‘it’s a highway, filled with deep, exotic colors and beautiful delicate things as well as the perils that come from moving so fast’. Feathers float from the gentle breeze rhythms of “What Bird Did You See” while a deep rumbling beat becomes the foundation for “Olive Tree”. 

With a voice full of emotion, Dar Williams is the perfect guide for the cuts on Hummingbird Highwayas she returns to a comfort zone in “Maryland, Maryland”, climbs “Sacred Mountain” on a rhythm that rises up from a reverentially hushed melody that opens into a sturdy Rock’n’Roll backbeat, and picks out a string band rhythm for the Union worker story in “Put the Coins on His Eyes”. Hummingbird Highway collects songs that spring from the well of Folk music, changing rhythmic directions without ever denying its style. A soft dance beat plays a samba to back “Tu Sais Le Printemps” as Dar Williams picks up the pace from the original Richard and Linda Thompson version of “I Want to See the Bright Lights Tonight” and plays somber piano chords to begin the reverie of “All is Come Undone”. (by Danny McCloskey)
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