I'll Meet You Here

I'll Meet You Here
Dar Williams standing on a large raft in water
Studio album by
Dar Williams
ReleasedOctober 1, 2021 (2021-10-01)
GenreFolk pop[1]
Length36:40
LanguageEnglish
LabelBMG Rights Management and Renew Records
Producer
Dar Williams chronology
Emerald
(2015) 		I'll Meet You Here
(2021)

"It was nice to have taken so much time away and to apply what I had learned from leading these songwriting retreats, in terms of all the little jump starts you give yourself when you have a little collapse – when you’re at a fork in the road with your writing or with your confidence. It was almost like I was a student of where we had gotten in the songwriting retreat, so it was great. I had led this thing and come up with something close to a pedagogy and then I followed it and I was like, “Wow, this really works.” So that was good. If there had been a part of my brain that says, “It’s too late, you’ve lost it. You had a guardian angel, but she didn’t want you to write about urban planning, and now you will never write any more songs.” That’s all a bunch of BS. I would just put all that stuff aside and keep on writing. It was really exciting to get back in that sense, to see how my past helped my present.

—Dar Williams on taking a break from recording albums to write and host songwriting workshops.[2]

I'll Meet You Here is a 2021 studio album by American folk musician Dar Williams. This is Williams' first studio album in six years, after a time spent writing books and giving songwriting retreats.[3] Songwriting for the album began while touring and being inspired by reading about smalltown America;[4][5] it explores themes of accepting life as it is, detaching from judgement,[6] and being optimistic[7] and is based on Williams' songwriting and personal history.[8]

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