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A lot of the songs are pretty unmasked. If you listen to “As Cool As I Am,” it’s not all that different from what you were hearing from Ani DiFranco and some of the other indie women artists of the time. It was still in that context, still seen as folk music.

Dar Williams

I was raised by parents who really admired the religious leaders of the left, as many 60s and 70s liberals did.
DAR WILLIAMS

Leader Parent Religious
What happened on “As Cool As I Am” was, you know how in the ’90s, “the personal is political, the political is personal”? That was a really big thing.
DAR WILLIAMS

Choices Political Real
You fly all over the country opening for these other people. You pay a publicist to get some press while you’re establishing yourself and you will be solvent in this career forevermore.
DAR WILLIAMS

Carer Extra Fly Layer Publicist
We have evolved to understand that language of power that’s taken too much.
DAR WILLIAMS

Language Much Taken Too
And I’ll act like I have faith, and like that faith never ends, but I really just have friends.
DAR WILLIAMS

Ends Faith Friend Have
There was a lot of distance between the Dar of The Honesty Room and the Dar of Mortal City, so there was no attempt.
DAR WILLIAMS

Cities Distance Honesty
I remember doing “As Cool As I Am” and Steve Miller, the producer, saying “I really hear a drum loop here. I want to play it for you.”
DAR WILLIAMS

Play Sound Thinking
Women were making more money. Women were saying, “My voice counts. If we’re going out on a Friday night, I don’t want to see a Rambo movie. I want to go see a singer/songwriter who sings about my life”.
DAR WILLIAMS

Friday Night Songwriter Women
But where do we come up with this notion of a woman in which the less space you take up, the more you’re worth?
DAR WILLIAMS

Come Notion Space
At this point, I feel like I have roots in a lot of places. I have friends who have put down roots, in Seattle and San Francisco and Portland, and I feel very close to them.
DAR WILLIAMS

Country People Portland Roots
A lot of the songs are pretty unmasked. If you listen to “As Cool As I Am,” it’s not all that different from what you were hearing from Ani DiFranco and some of the other indie women artists of the time. It was still in that context, still seen as folk music.
DAR WILLIAMS

Artist Different Song
They preach that I should save the world. They pray that I won’t do a better job of it.
DAR WILLIAMS

Jobs Praying World
Milwaukee one of my favorite cites; I think Milwaukee is #1.
DAR WILLIAMS

Citing Favorite Thinking
The light that stopped the night felt like forgiveness.
DAR WILLIAMS

Light Night Revenge
The best, most solid place to stand as you look at our present situation is on a foundation of history. The Roman Empire, the British Empire, and the Nazi empire all have things in common.
DAR WILLIAMS

Empires Foundation Looks
There’s tons of anger and angst and peculiarity and eccentricity, and good towns know that that’s okay. But towns that are kind of bullshit don’t know what to do with all those feelings.
DAR WILLIAMS

Bullshit Feelings Towns

A lot of the songs are pretty unmasked. If you listen to “As Cool As I Am,” it’s not all that different from what you were hearing from Ani DiFranco and some of the other indie women artists of the time. It was still in that context, still seen as folk music.

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A lot of the songs are pretty unmasked. If you listen to “As Cool As I Am,” it’s not all that different from what you were hearing from Ani DiFranco and some of the other indie women artists of the time. It was still in that context, still seen as folk music.

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