Richard Shindell "A tour-de-force of brilliantly crafted songs, passionately delivered songs that consistently create three-dimensional visual and emotional images … His lyrics are carefully distilled essences of dramatic circumstances and personal dilemmas mated with melodic lines …" -- Stereo Review "One of the folk circuit's most quietly lucid songwriters, with a compassionate intelligence that gleams through his songs." -- Jon Parales, New York Times Shindell first gained worldwide attention during a European tour with Joan Baez, later forming a kind of folk supergroup with Dar Williams and Lucy Kaplansky called Cry Cry Cry. His South of Delia recording, featuring songs by Robertson, Dylan, Springsteen and Guthrie, was named a top 10 selection by NPR. With Not Far Now he returns (mostly) to his own songs. Long a spiritual seeker – first in a Zen Buddhist monastery and then at a seminary – Shindell is a powerful writer and equally powerful performer. RichardShindell.com Songs To Check Out: "Arcadian Driftwood," "Born in the U.S.A.," "Big Muddy," "There Goes Mavis," "So Says the Whippoorwill," "The Storms Are on the Ocean" For Fans Of: John Gorka, Cry Cry Cry, Jeffrey Foucault, Lucy Kaplansky, Eliza Gilkyson, Red Horse