Promised Land is the seventh album by Dar Williams released September 9, 2008 on Razor & Tie, the label that has released almost all of her albums.

All songs are written by Dar Williams if not noted otherwise.

The song "Buzzer" was inspired by the Milgram experiment; "Midnight Radio" is a cover of a song from Hedwig and the Angry Inch, written by a friend of hers from college.

[1] "Troubled Times" is a cover of a Fountains of Wayne song from that band's 1999 album Utopia Parkway.

Slant Magazine called Promised Land "perhaps her strongest start-to-finish album since 1996's Mortal City.