“Hey baby, do you wanna take a trip with me? / I’ve got a feeling there might be a silver lining all around.” So begins ONE DAY, the captivating new album from critically acclaimed Minneapolis duo The Cactus Blossoms. That was a clear sign that at some point, you have to meet life where it meets you …the common thread throughout these songs, the willingness to meet life as it arrives.
Turns out he’d contracted a serious case of COVID-19. When told they had to postpone a mid-March mixing date, Campbell said he wasn’t feeling well anyway. In late February of 2020, she cut the title tune in Woodstock with bassist Gail Ann Dorsey and Larry Campbell, who produced the track and played guitars, pedal steel and twangy baritone guitar. She and longtime producer Stewart Lerman tracked most of the album, her 12th studio recording, in November of 2019. Like everyone else, Williams spent 2020 in that state of non-control. Williams has always been very interested in how to control our future and this album has to do with the fact that at some point, you just can’t. Williams strongly believes that all of us possess our own power and ability to achieve, and she rejects the exceptionalism that encourages us to “admire that yonder star,” while making us feel small and insignificant unworthy of shining on our own but hoping to catch enough distant light to inspire some tiny accomplishment. Dar Williams’s lyrics contain bouquets of optimism, delivered on melodies alternating between beguiling lightness and understated gravity.
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