From: owner-shindell-list-digest@smoe.org (shindell-list-digest) To: shindell-list-digest@smoe.org Subject: shindell-list-digest V9 #162 Reply-To: shindell-list@smoe.org Sender: owner-shindell-list-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-shindell-list-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk shindell-list-digest Friday, September 28 2007 Volume 09 : Number 162 Today's Subjects: ----------------- [RS] Recent Article on Richard in Hartford Courant ["KenY7744" Subject: [RS] Recent Article on Richard in Hartford Courant A Good Song Defines Him, Shindell Says Folk Artist Performs Saturday At UofH By THOMAS KINTNER, Special to the Courant, September 25, 2007 Richard Shindell has made his home in Buenos Aires, Argentina, since 2000, but the 47-year-old folk singer remains plugged in to the United States in all aspects of his life, not least of them his art. He has toured the country regularly since he expatriated, and while his artistic palette has been expanded by his new surroundings, many of his songs continue to be informed by a thoughtful insider's ideas about the people and politics of his homeland. Born in New Jersey and raised in New York and Maryland, Shindell saw his path intertwine with another future folk luminary during college, when he joined as lead guitarist a bluegrass band that included John Gorka. Shindell later spent time in Europe as a Paris street musician, then returned to New York and enrolled at Union Theological Seminary. He continued composing songs while he studied to become a pastoral psychotherapist, but veered from that path when he found a home on the New York folk-music circuit, which led to his 1992 debut CD. He had three albums to his credit in 1997 when Joan Baez boosted his name recognition by recording three of his songs and enlisting him for her subsequent tour. Speaking during a recent stay in Doylestown, Pa., Shindell, whose current tour brings him to the University of Hartford Saturday night, recalled the opportunity as valuable, but says, "I seem notoriously incapable of taking advantage of that sort of progress. I think other people might have taken that kind of event and run with it more. My brain doesn't work that way. I'm just not particularly career-advancement minded, and I just don't blow my own horn very well. I think it's important to do that, but I'm not very good at it. The real thing that I define myself by is whether I've got a new song that I'm happy with. If I've got a new song, I feel like I've got the world by the tail." The rest at: http://www.courant.com/entertainment/music/hc-shindell.artsep25,0,2379312.st ory ------------------------------ End of shindell-list-digest V9 #162 ***********************************