My Better Self

{{Infobox album

| name = My Better Self

| type = studio

| artist = Dar Williams

| cover = My Better Self Dar Williams.jpg

| alt =

| released = {{Startdate|2005|09|13}}

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| venue =

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| genre = Folk

| length = 49:56

| label = Razor & Tie

| producer = Stewart Lerman

| prev_title = The Beauty of the Rain

| prev_year = 2003

| next_title = Promised Land

| next_year = 2008

}}

{{Album ratings

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My Better Self is the sixth album by singer/songwriter Dar Williams. It was released on September 13, 2005, by Razor & Tie.

Track listing

All songs written by Dar Williams, except where noted.

"Teen for God" – 3:28
"I'll Miss You Till I Meet You" – 4:27
"Echoes" (Jules Shear, Rob Hyman, Stewart Lerman) – 3:59
"Blue Light of the Flame" (Williams, Hyman) – 3:05
"Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere" (Neil Young) – 4:28
"Two Sides of the River" – 4:09
"Empire" – 3:47
"Comfortably Numb" (Roger Waters, David Gilmour) – 5:26
"So Close to My Heart" – 3:11
"Beautiful Enemy" – 3:10
"Liar" – 2:58
"You Rise and Meet the Day" – 3:06
"The Hudson" – 4:38

The album was released with different bonus tracks depending on the vendor. Copies bought at Borders bookstores included a live recording of "And a God Descended" and Barnes & Noble customers got a live rendition of "I Saw a Bird Fly Away".

Personnel

Dar Williams – guitar, vocals
Sammy Merendino – percussion
Steuart Smith – organ, acoustic guitar, piano, keyboards, guitar
Michael Visceglia – bass, bass pedals
Julie Wolf – organ, melodica, vox organ, Fender Rhodes, Mellotron, piano, accordion, glockenspiel, clavinet
Neal Evans – organ, bass guitar, piano
Alan Evans – drums
Eric Krasno – guitar
Ben Butler – guitar
Ani DiFranco – guitar, vocals
Eric Bazilian – vocals
Steve Holley – drums, glockenspiel
Rob Hyman – organ, Cordovox, piano, Wurlitzer
[http://www.stewartlerman.com/ Stewart Lerman] – guitar, keyboards, production
Patty Larkin – vocals
Marshall Crenshaw – guitar, vocals, backing vocals

References

External links

{{Official Website}}
[https://web.archive.org/web/20060118231800/http://darwilliams.net/music/mybetterself.html Fan site with clips]
[https://web.archive.org/web/20060107022941/http://www.razorandtiemedia.com/artistpage.php?artist=12#audiovideo Download of "Echoes"]
[https://web.archive.org/web/20051024001231/http://www.flashenhanced.com/darwilliams/ Listen to My Better Self]

Category:2005 albums

Category:Dar Williams albums

Category:Razor & Tie albums

Category:Albums produced by Stewart Lerman