Courier (album)

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Released Feb 12, 2002 Courier(2002) Vuelta(2004) Release date 12 February 2002		Recorded Feb 2, 2001 Artist Richard Shindell Genre Folk music

Label Signature Sounds Recordings Similar Reunion Hill, Vuelta, South of Delia, Somewhere Near Paterson, Blue Divide

Richard shindell courier live

Courier is the first live recording and sixth album by Richard Shindell. It includes many of his most popular originals from previous recordings, a cover of Lowell George's classic song, "Willin'", and what has been described as a "near-holy reading" of Bruce Springsteen's "Fourth of July, Asbury Park".

Signature Sounds also offered a limited number of bonus EP's titled The Sonora Sessions, which included an additional seven tracks.

Courier

Track listing

All songs written by Richard Shindell, except where noted.

"The Courier" 4:51
"Memory of You" – 4:28
"Next Best Western" – 4:17
"Willin'" (Lowell George) – 3:15
"The Kenworth of My Dreams" – 4:05
"Nora" – 4:42
"Arrowhead" – 5:07
"Reunion Hill" – 4:24
"Fishing" – 4:33
"A Summer Wind, A Cotton Dress" – 4:04
"On a Sea of Fleur de Lis" – 4:47
"The Ballad of Mary Magdalen" – 5:11
"Are You Happy Now?" – 4:10
"Transit" – 7:32
"Fourth of July, Asbury Park" (Bruce Springsteen) – 6:35

Recorded by Ben Wisch and Ron Schreier at the Emelin Theatre (Mamaroneck, NY) 3/16 and 17, 2001. Tracks 3 and 11 recorded at the Outpost in the Burbs (Montclair, NJ) on 2/2/01. Track 7 recorded at Bailey Building & Loan (Greenwich Village, NYC). Mixed by Ben Wisch.