From living in a Zen Buddhist monastery, to busking on the streets of Paris (not to mention opening for the legendary Joan Baez), native New Yorker Richard Shindell has routinely embraced fascinating and extraordinary life experiences - a good many of which, it’s fair to assume, have positively impacted his remarkably insightful songwriting. 

Lighthearted ballads, adulterous love songs, and dirges and diatribes that skillfully skewer politics, prejudice, war and religion are all present and correct in his output, as are songs telling stories from a first-person perspective. Indeed, he’s even written one from the point of view of a cow stuck in a barbed-wire fence!