''South of Delia'' is the seventh solo album by American folk singer-songwriter

Richard Shindell Richard Shindell (born August 3, 1960) is an American folk singer, songwriter, producer, and musician. Shindell grew up in Port Washington, New York, and now lives in Buenos Aires, Argentina, with his wife, Lila Caimari, a university profess ...

. ''South of Delia'' is a

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. Although he himself is sometimes described as a "songwriter's songwriter," covers are not new to Shindell. In addition to recording a few on his previous solo albums, he was also one third of the folk supergroup / cover band

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(along with

Dar Williams Dorothy Snowden "Dar" Williams (born April 19, 1967) is an American pop folk singer-songwriter from Mount Kisco, New York. Hendrik Hertzberg of ''The New Yorker'' has described Williams as "one of America's very best singer-songwriters." She is ...

and

Lucy Kaplansky Lucy Kaplansky (born February 16, 1960) is an American Folk music, folk musician based in New York City. Kaplansky has a PhD in clinical psychology from Yeshiva University and plays guitar, mandolin, and piano. Life and career Kaplansky was or ...

). On ''South of Delia'', Shindell covers songs from several songwriting legends, including

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and

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, as well as some from younger up-and-coming writer/performers, such as

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and

Josh Ritter Josh Ritter (born October 21, 1976) is an American singer, songwriter, musician, and author who performs and records with the Royal City Band. Ritter is known for his distinctive Americana style and narrative lyrics. In 2006, he was named one of ...

. Although the official release date was May 10, 2007, pre-orders began shipping in late March. The album began to appear on a number of radio airplay charts prior to its official release (see below). The title ''"South of Delia"'' comes from a line in the Josh Ritter song, "Lawrence, KS". The song was previously recorded by Ritter for his 2001 album, ''

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''.''Golden Age of Radio'' page
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Track listing

# "Acadian Driftwood" (

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) – 5:33 #*Richard Shindell – vocal,

bouzouki The bouzouki (, also ; el, μπουζούκι ; alt. pl. ''bouzoukia'', from Greek ), also spelled buzuki or buzuci, is a musical instrument popular in Greece. It is a member of the long-necked lute family, with a round body with a flat top and ...

acoustic guitar An acoustic guitar is a musical instrument in the string family. When a string is plucked its vibration is transmitted from the bridge, resonating throughout the top of the guitar. It is also transmitted to the side and back of the instrument, ...

Larry Campbell Larry W. Campbell (born 28 February 1948) is a Canadian politician that served as the 37th mayor of Vancouver, Canada from 2002 until 2005 and since 2005 has been a member of the Senate of Canada. Before he was mayor, Campbell worked for th ...

–

pedal steel The pedal steel guitar is a console-type of steel guitar with pedals and knee levers that change the pitch of certain strings to enable playing more varied and complex music than any previous steel guitar design. Like all steel guitars, it can ...

– harmony #*

Radoslav Lorković Radoslav Lorković (born September 3, 1958) is a Croatian born and classically trained folk and blues musician, known in particular for his flair on the piano and accordion. He has six solo studio recordings, three live albums and has recorded ...

–

accordion Accordions (from 19th-century German ''Akkordeon'', from ''Akkord''—"musical chord, concord of sounds") are a family of box-shaped musical instruments of the bellows-driven free-reed aerophone type (producing sound as air flows past a ree ...

#* Dennis McDermott – drums #* Sara Milonovich
nbsp;– violin, harmony #* Lincoln Schleifer
nbsp;– electric bass #* Ben Wittman – triangle # "Señor (Tales of Yankee Power)" (

) – 4:53 #* Richard Shindell – vocal, bouzouki, electric slide guitar #* Greg Anderson – piano #*

Viktor Krauss Viktor Krauss is an American musician who plays acoustic and electric bass. He has released solo albums and has worked as a sideman with many musicians, including his sister, singer and fiddler Alison Krauss. Music career Krauss was born to Fre ...

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upright bass The double bass (), also known simply as the bass () (or by other names), is the largest and lowest-pitched bowed (or plucked) string instrument in the modern symphony orchestra (excluding unorthodox additions such as the octobass). Similar ...

, bass harmonics #* Dennis McDermott – snare drum, cymbal #*

David Sancious David Sancious (born November 30, 1953) is an American musician. He was an early member of Bruce Springsteen's backing group, the E Street Band, and contributed to the first three Springsteen albums, and again on ''Human Touch'' (1992), '' Trac ...

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# "The Humpback Whale" ( Harry Robertson) – 4:56 #* Richard Shindell – vocal,

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, cajón peruano, cymbal #* Richard Thompson – electric guitar #* Viktor Krauss – upright bass # "

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" ( Bruce Springsteen) – 3:06 #*Richard Shindell – vocal, bouzouki, keyboard, harmony #* Greg Anderson – mandolin #* Larry Campbell – electric guitar #* Mark Dann – electric bass #*

–

harmonium The pump organ is a type of free-reed organ that generates sound as air flows past a vibrating piece of thin metal in a frame. The piece of metal is called a reed. Specific types of pump organ include the reed organ, harmonium, and melodeon. Th ...

#* Dennis McDermott – drums #* Ben Wittman –

tambourine The tambourine is a musical instrument in the percussion family consisting of a frame, often of wood or plastic, with pairs of small metal jingles, called "zills". Classically the term tambourine denotes an instrument with a drumhead, though ...

, cymbal # "

Mercy Street "Mercy Street" is a song written by English musician Peter Gabriel from his 1986 album '' So''. Background and recording The song was inspired by the personal and confessional works of the American poet Anne Sexton, who wrote a play titled '' ...

" ( Peter Gabriel) – 4:18 #* Richard Shindell – vocal, bouzouki, piano, electric guitar, cajón peruano #* Greg Anderson – electric bass #* Lucy Kaplansky – harmony #* Sara Milonovich – low whistle, harmony # "The Storms Are on the Ocean" ( A.P. Carter) – 3:19 #* Richard Shindell – vocal, acoustic guitar, bouzouki #* Sara Milonovich – violin, harmony #* Viktor Krauss – upright bass #* Ben Wittman – snare drum # "Northbound 35" (

) – 5:18 #* Richard Shindell – vocal, acoustic guitar, electric guitar, cajón peruano #* Greg Anderson – electric bass #* Lucy Kaplansky – harmony #* Sara Milonovich – violin #* David Sancious – piano # "Sitting on Top of the World" (trad arr Shindell) – 3:05 #* Richard Shindell – vocal, electric guitar, foot # "Texas Rangers" (trad arr Shindell) – 4:09 #* Richard Shindell – vocal, bouzouki, electric guitar #* Viktor Krauss – upright bass #* Dennis McDermott –

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, drum heads,

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, cymbals #* Richard Thompson – lead guitar #*

Tony Trischka Anthony Cattell Trischka (born January 16, 1949) is an American five-string banjo player. Sandra Brennan wrote of him in 2021: "One of the most influential modern banjoists, both in several forms of bluegrass music and occasionally in jazz and ...

– banjo #* Ben Wittman – snare drum,

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# "

Deportee (Plane Wreck at Los Gatos) "Deportee (Plane Wreck at Los Gatos)" is a protest song with lyrics by Woody Guthrie and music by Martin Hoffman detailing the January 28, 1948 crash of a plane near Los Gatos Canyon, west of Coalinga in Fresno County, California, United Stat ...

" (words:

, music: Martin Hoffman) – 5:06 #* Richard Shindell – vocal, acoustic guitar, electric guitar #*

Eliza Gilkyson Eliza Gilkyson (born August 24, 1950, Hollywood, California) is a Taos, New Mexico-based folk musician.Gilkyson moved her base from Austin, Texas, to Taos in 2020. She is the daughter of songwriter and folk musician Terry Gilkyson and his wife, J ...

– harmony #*

Mark Hallman Mark Hallman (born August 1, 1951) is an American producer, songwriter, engineer and multi-instrumentalist. He has worked with Carole King (appearing on six of her albums as a performer and producer), Ani DiFranco, and Eliza Gilkyson. In the m ...

– harmony #*

– hammond b3 #* Dennis McDermott – drums #* Lincoln Schleifer – electric bass # "Solo le Pido a Dios" (

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) – 4:41 #* Richard Shindell – vocal, harmony vocals, acoustic guitar, electric guitar,

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, tambourine, bombo leguero #* Pablo Aslan – upright bass #*

– harmony #*

Lisa Gutkin Lisa Gutkin is an American violinist, singer and songwriter of The Klezmatics. She played in Sting's The Last Ship, had a cameo appearance in “Sex and the City,” and is a MacDowell Fellow at the MacDowell Colony. Lisa appears on hundreds of r ...

– violin #* Analia Sirio – harmony # "Lawrence, KS" (

) – 4:10 #* Richard Shindell – vocal, bouzouki, electric guitar, tambourine, cymbal #* Greg Anderson – electric bass #* Larry Campbell – pedal steel #* Lucy Kaplansky – harmony #* Dennis McDermott – drums #* Sara Milonovich – violin, harmony

Charts

References

External links

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