Sparrows Point (album)

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Sparrows Point
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Studio album by Richard Shindell
Released March 20, 1992
Genre Folk, singer-songwriter
Label Shanachie
Producer David Seitz and Richard Shindell
Richard Shindell chronology
Sparrows Point
(1992)		 Blue Divide
(1995) Blue Divide1995
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Sparrows Point is the 1992 debut album of singer-songwriter Richard Shindell.

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Richard Shindell singer-songwriter

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Contents

Track listing

  1. "Are You Happy Now?" – 3:49
  2. "Castaway" – 3:55
  3. "By Now" – 5:16
  4. "The Courier" – 4:18
  5. "Sparrows Point" – 4:47
  6. "The Kenworth of My Dreams" – 3:44
  7. "On a Sea of Fleur-de-Lis" – 4:22
  8. "Memory of You" – 3:38
  9. "You Again" – 2:59
  10. "Nora" – 3:59
  11. "Howling at the Trouble" – 3:42

Personnel

Musicians:

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References

  1. ↑ Renner, Chip & Meyer, Richard, "Review: Sparrows Point", Allmusic
  2. ↑ Allen, Jim, "The Ten Best Albums of 1992", Fast Folk Musical Magazine , 6:9–10, (February 1993) p.12-13


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