Blue Divide

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Blue Divide
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Studio album by
ReleasedSeptember 25, 1994
Studio Shelter Island (New York City)
Genre folk, singer-songwriter
Label Shanachie
Producer Steve Addabbo
Richard Shindell chronology
Sparrows Point
(1992)
Blue Divide
(1994)
Reunion Hill
(1997)
Professional ratings
Review scores
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Blue Divide is the second album by singer-songwriter Richard Shindell. It was released in 1995 by Shanachie Records. Shanachie also released a live promo CD, Scenes from a Blue Divide (Live) and More which included five live tracks recorded at the Treestar Coffeehouse in Mount Kisco, New York. [2]

Contents

Joan Baez covered the song "Fishing" on the album Gone from Danger .

Track listing

All songs by Richard Shindell except where noted

  1. "A Summer Wind, A Cotton Dress"
  2. "Fishing"
  3. "The Ballad of Mary Magdalene"
  4. "Lazy"
  5. "The Things That I Have Seen"
  6. "TV Light" (Addabbo, Shindell)
  7. "A Tune for Nowhere"
  8. "Arrowhead"
  9. "Ascent"
  10. "Blue Divide"

Personnel

Musicians:

Production

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