★★★★★
Songteller Shindell gets extra punch with a four-piece band behind 12 original songs and two covers: Lowell George's Willin' and Springsteen's Fourth of July, Ashbury Park. Recorded live, this is a good cross section of Shindell's soft denim style if you prefer to hear it dressed up, but the material stands well enough with only guitar and voice...
- www.hour.ca
2010-11-09
★★★★★
Richard Shindell was once recommended to me by a friend as a "songwriter's songwriter", an intriguing description seemingly applied to everyone with a pen and six strings. It's a bit of a double-edged sword. Fixated as I've always been by wild, idiosyncratic songs and voices, I shied away from Shindell, taking "songwriter's songwriter" to mean overly meticulous, polished, labored. But come to find out, the term can also mean crafty, focused, and thoughtful...
- www.popmatters.com
2009-03-23
★★★★★
Richard Shindell was once recommended to me by a friend as a "songwriter's songwriter", an intriguing description seemingly applied to everyone with a pen and six strings. It's a bit of a double-edged sword. Fixated as I've always been by wild, idiosyncratic songs and voices, I shied away from Shindell, taking "songwriter's songwriter" to mean overly meticulous, polished, labored. But come to find out, the term can also mean crafty, focused, and thoughtful...
- www.popmatters.com
2009-03-21
★★★★★
The opening track on Richard Shindell's fourth album is called "Confession," but most of his compositions on the record could have been given the same title, since they are first-person story songs in which one character reveals something to another...
- music.aol.com
2008-08-27
★★★★★
Richard Shindell has been hailed as an imaginative storyteller whose knack for simple melodies and stark ambiance has bestowed him with a healthy worldwide fan base. Cutting out a career for himself as a literary minded tunesmith, the former seminarian has released five albums since he arrived on the folk scene in 1992 with Sparrow's Point on Shanachie...
- music.aol.com
2008-08-27
★★★★★
This promotional CD contains five live tracks recorded at the Treestar Coffeehouse, including a live take of his hit "Are You Happy Now?" as well as the studio version. This disc is worth finding for the stripped-down, but effective, performances.
- music.aol.com
2008-08-27
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