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Reunion Hill

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Released
  
August 19, 1997

Genre
  
Folk music

Length
  
46:52

Release date
  
19 August 1997

Producer
  
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Reunion Hill(1997)
  
Similar
  
Richard Shindell albums, Folk music albums

Richard shindell reunion hill


Reunion Hill is a 1997 album by singer-songwriter Richard Shindell. It was Shindell's third and final studio album for Shanachie Records. Allmusic calls the album "songcraft at its finest." The album includes a cover of "I'll Be Here in the Morning" by Townes Van Zandt who died earlier that same year.

Contents

Shindell composed the title song in 1996 for Joan Baez, who later included it on her Gone From Danger album. It was also covered by Fairport Convention on their 2011 CD Festival Bell and Show of Hands on their 2012 album Wake the Union. The song is written from the perspective of a Civil War widow. Although Baez has called it the best antiwar song she has ever heard, Shindell has said he does not think of the song as antiwar.

Richard shindell reunion hill


Track listing

All songs by Richard Shindell except where noted

  1. "The Next Best Western"- 4:35
  2. "Smiling" (Larry Campbell, Shindell) - 4:43
  3. "May" - 4:37
  4. "I Saw My Youth Today" - 3:18
  5. "Reunion Hill" - 4:28
  6. "Beyond the Iron Gate" - 5:24
  7. "Darkness, Darkness" (Jesse Colin Young) - 3:56
  8. "Money for Floods" - 3:46
  9. "Easy Street" - 3:58
  10. "The Weather" - 3:49
  11. "I'll Be Here in the Morning" (Townes Van Zandt) - 4:18

Personnel

Musicians:

  • Richard Shindell - vocals, acoustic guiatar, harmony, percussion
  • Larry Campbell - acoustic, electric and baritone guitars, bouzouki, mandolin, pedal steel, lap steel, fiddle, percussion
  • Lucy Kaplansky - harmony
  • Frank Vilardi - drums, percussion
  • Radoslav Lorković - piano, Hammond B3, harmonium, accordion
  • Dave Richards - electric and upright bass
  • Robby Walsh - Bodhran
  • Teresa Williams - harmony
  • Production

  • Produced by Larry Campbell
  • Recorded by Tim Conklin at Sorcerer Sound New York City
  • and by Al Hemberger, Matt Baxter and Roy Matthews at The Loft Bronxville, New York
  • Mixed at The Loft by Larry Campbell, Al Hemberger, and Richard Shindell
  • Songs

    1The Next Best Western4:40
    2Smiling4:44
    3May4:41

    References

    Reunion Hill Wikipedia


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