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  What a musician's tour through hundreds of small towns taught her about America

  Public spaces and a shared unique history is the glue that binds small towns together, singer Dar Williams told CNBC.

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  Dar Williams on the Rise of Large Towns and Small Cities

  The singer-songwriter Dar Williams’ music is a revelation—The New Yorker has described her as "one of America’s very best singer-songwriters”—and so, it turns out, is her writing about cities. In her fantastic new book, What I Found in a Thousand Towns, Williams provides an insightful flâneuse’s take on what makes for a thriving community (full disclosure: I liked the book so much I blurbed it). She draws on her travels to cities and towns across America to set out the ingredients of a successfu

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  Track of the Day: ‘The Christians and the Pagans’ by Dar Williams

  I tend to favor depressing Christmas songs, but reader Adam Feiges probably has a better idea during this already depressing post-election season: How about Christmas tunes, specifically ones that work that holiday magic of bringing people together? I know that they can be clichéd, but I always find myself looking forward to the first time each season that I hear Springsteen’s “Santa Claus is Coming to Town.” Winter, especially here in Iowa, can be depressing, and a little yule-time cheer can re

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  Hear It First: Dar Williams Premieres New Album, ‘Emerald’

  Few modern folk artists have enjoyed as prolific a career as Dar Williams, who has been consistently turning out some of America’s best songwriting since the ‘90s. Her latest album,Emerald, is her first new album in three years, slated for release May 5 and crowd funded through Pledge Music. The album features such luminous guests such as Jill Sobule, Lucy Wainwright, and Jim Lauderdale, and is filled with Williams’s signature introspective narratives. Yahoo Music is pleased to preview the entir

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