Loudon won a Grammy last year for High Wide & Handsome - The Charlie Poole Project (Best Traditional Folk Album) and just released a 4 CD / 1 DVD box set/career retrospective entitled 40 Odd Years. The set was co-produced by acclaimed writer/director/producer Judd Apatow, who has featured Loudon in his films Knocked Up (for which Loudon also recorded the soundtrack) and The 40 Year Old Virgin. Among many accolades, the package got a 4 star review in Rolling Stone who proclaimed Loudon is "one hell of a songsmith." Loudon himself is a deeply moving to hilarious singer / songwriter, accomplished actor (MASH, Fox TV's sitcom Undeclared, more) and writer (The New York Times, Mojo, etc). In recent years Loudon has acted with directors Martin Scorsese, Tim Burton, Cameron Crowe, and Judd Apatow, all while remaining one of the most original and impressive songwriters and live performers of his generation. |
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On one level, the sizable body of work accumulated by celebrated writer/artist Dar Williams is a continuing narrative of her life. On another, it forms a detailed look at the course of modern-day existence in the decade and a half between 1993 when Williams released her debut album and her latest release, Many Great Companions, a two-CD set that comprehensively pairs a career overview with the artist's latest recording project. As a whole, the collection charts Williams' course from an upstart neo-folkie to a seasoned artist who's also a community-involved wife, mother and "involved neighbor," as she puts it. Along with her seven studio albums she's also released the onstage document Out There Live (2001) and the DVD Live at Bearsville Theater (2007). Williams has been embraced by fans, her musical peers and the press - or as Paste Magazine declares "a new generation of pop-folk enthusiasts lauds her as one of the genre's central figures."
*Dar Williams is represented by The Agency Group |