Songs that retain the pop sensibility of another era: catch-tunes that could easily be at home on a Rick Rubin-era Johnny Cash album and earnest lullabies that rekindle the warm glow of a young Will Oldham.
Richard Shindell is a songwriter's songwriter; his songs, critics have stated, are the lyrical equivalent of New Yorker fiction. Image-laden and musically exciting, Shindell is a master player and craftsman, a songwriter at the top of his form.