6980 - RICHARD LINDGREN - Driftwood (the 309 sessions) (2013)

RICHARD LINDGREN
''DRIFTWOOD''
SEPTEMBER 18 2013
35:06

1 /A Miracle Like You /3:35
2 /I Wish I Had Someone To Love Me
Traditional /3:47
3 /Heart Of The Land /7:27
4 /Make Me A Pallet
Mississippi John Hurt /4:22
5 /Driftwood /5:48
6 /Hurry On Home, Mama /2:35
7 /Letting Go Of You /3:36
8 /Guinness Song /3:56

Richard Lindgren /Guitar (Acoustic), Piano, Vocals
Mats Lindström /Bouzouki
Robin Mossberg /Standup Bass, Vocals (Background)
Simon Nyberg /Banjo, Guitar (Acoustic), Mandolin, Vocals (Background)
Andreas Svensson /Accordion
Olle Unenge /Guitar (Acoustic), Vocals (Background)
Kajsa Zetterlund /Violin

"I was born in the south of Sweden what seems like a long, long time ago. I was also born with an old soul. While my friends were listening to heavy metal bands I was more into Bob Dylan and Johnny Cash and that was pretty weird where I grew up. I started out playing guitar and piano and I was my own teacher, I basically listened to records and tried to pick up what I could hear.

I played in a couple of bands growing up but it was never for me, I always felt I was a solo artist. I started playing in small clubs when I was around sixteen years old and I also began writing my own material around that time.

If someone would ask me what my songs are about I would have to say that they are about variations of human longing, alienation, sorrow and happiness but I hope my sense of humor can also be found there. When it comes to music-nowadays I listen to a lot of blues singers like Mississippi John Hurt and Lightin' Hopkins and a lot of country artists such as Hank Williams and the great Towes Van Zandt. Dylan, of course, has never left me.

I have been on the road for a big part of my life, playing solo or with a band, sometimes playing support act to artists like Ryan Adams, Mary Gauthier, Dr John and John Hiatt. I especially enjoyed my trips with Mary.

I got a new record out now called "Driftwood-the 309 sessions". I got an award from the city of Orebro in Sweden that gave me the oppurtunity to stay in a hotel for two weks writing songs and then record them. Driftwood is a result of that stay.

I'm really looking forward to come and play for you. I've been playing all over but never in Italy. So come out and watch and I'll put up a good show for you.

Richard Lindgren

4726 - RICHARD LINDGREN - Grace (2012)

RICHARD LINDGREN
''GRACE''
OCTOBER 31 2012
42:25

1. Reconsider Me /3:40
2. Hopeless Side of Town /4:32
3. I Came I Went But I Don't Know Where I'm Going Now /3:23
4. She's Already Gone /5:13
5. If Only She Came Walking By /3:27
6. Losing My Bearings /3:59
7. By My Lonesome (Dublin Town) /2:26
8. Sunday Tea Blues /4:24
9. Silver /3:28
10. A Slow Walk of Dreams /4:58
11. New Year's Eve 2009 /2:55

The Richard Lindgren story...
By Mr Broom Beacon Jr/Storyteller
Spellbound by the words and music of Bob Dylan, Richard Lindgren a twelwe- year old boy decided to become a singer himself. Alone in his grandpas trailer he decided not to come out until he had completed a song of his own. It took a couple of days to get it down because he didnt know how to play the guitar but eventually three chords descended upon that trailer and three chords will do anyday. Richard learned his craftsmanship quickly and even in the mid-eighties you could find him hammering away on his guitar in some local bar in his hometown Malmoe. Throughout the years he formed different bands, such as Kettlefish, a group inspired by country music and Irish folk music. The band lasted a couple of years and then it was time to move on. Richard has always written his own material and in 1995 he felt it was about time he got a record out. Ignored by the big record labels he rented a studio on his own and recorded his first album, simply called Richard Lindgren and distributed it himself. This album is now very hard to come across and rumor says that not even Richard has a copy.

In 1998 he set out searching for the ghost of Townes Van Zandt. He arrived on a Greyhound bus in Austin, Tx and stayed at a rundown motel on the outskirts of the city. For months he roamed the streets, wrote new material and played some gigs at some classic venues. When I once asked him if hed ever found the ghost of Townes he said I felt something at the Cactus Caf just as I was about to leave. Richard Lindgren spent the following years traveling alone with his acoustic guitar. These trips took him to stages in Austria and in the Czech Republic and especially in Vienna hes got a small audience who, when hes in town, rarely misses out on a show. During this period of time Richard wrote a lot of new songs and the time had come to release a second album. Postcard from Elsewhere was released in May 2003 and got some fine reviews though some thought it was a gloomy record. Lindgren toured on his own to promote the album and in Denmark he found an audience reciptive to his work. He now tours DK on a regular basis and hes formed a group with just danish musicians. Richard Lindgren has just completed his third album and it will be released sometime in the beginning of 2006.

He is currently signed to Scandinavian Recordings and at the present hes planning the recording of a fourth album which will also be released in 2006. In different costumes Richard Lindgren has played support act to artists such as Robyn Hitchcock, Ryan Adams and Jayhawks. Sometimes on his own, other times with Swedish backing group Transcendents. In the summer of 2005 he did the PRE-SPOT tour in Denmark together with The Tiny and Norwegian singer/songwriter Ane Brun. Richard received the Fjellis award in 2005.
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4725 - RICHARD LINDGREN - Memento 1994-2010: Best Of + Rare & Unreleased, Disc Three (2011)

RICHARD LINDGREN
''MEMENTO 1994-2010: BEST OF + RARE & UNRELEASED, DISC THREE''
APRIL 6 2011
208:44

Disc One
1/One Step Behind/4:06
2/Five Pints and a Wink From Gwendolyn/5:10
3/When My Days Are Done/2:36
4/Blue Sky Shut/4:12
5/Poets Drown In Lakes/3:59
6/Passenger/5:25
7/Blind Willie McTell
Bob Dylan/7:23
8/Mezcal Mae feat. Andi Almqvist
Andi Almqvist / Richard Lindgren /3:51
9/I Don't Belong In This World Anymore/4:24
10/Black Morning, Black Train/2:27
11/Aberdeen/7:20
12/Lone Star Blues/5:44
13/White Freightliner Blues
Townes Van Zandt/3:28
14/Take Tomorrow/3:21
15/Back To Brno/3:32
16/Doubt/3:44

DISC TWO
1/Drunk On Arrival/4:38
2/Portion of Love/4:37
3/Dead Man/5:23
4/Hello Mystery World/3:37
5/Grand Hotel/5:29
6/Goodbye Rosie/3:33
7/I Won't Recall You At All/3:14
8/My Kind of Place/5:42
9/Brother Flower
Townes Van Zandt/2:26
10/I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry feat. Maria Blom
Hank Williams/3:40
11/Lighthouse In the Dark/4:59
12/Famous Blue Raincoat
Leonard Cohen/6:34
13/I Can't Deliver That/5:51
14/Sweet Buttercup/2:45
15/Drinking Down Sorrow/7:27

DISC THREE
1/From Camden Town To Bleecker Street/3:16
2/Goner feat. Tiina W. Edring
Richard Lindgren/2:19
3/Bad News/3:09
4/Silver/2:25
5/You Know Who Your Lover Will Be/4:24
6/If Only She Came Walking By/4:36
7/David Reynolds' Last Ride/3:44
8/Tom Traubert's Blues
Tom Waits/5:38
9/Mixed-Up World/4:36
10/Deportees (Plane Wreck At Los Gatos)
Woody Guthrie / Martin Hoffman/6:52
11/A Man You Can Hate/3:58
12/If My Name's Ever on the Tip of Her Tongue/5:39
13/Song of Calamity/4:08
14/Untitled, Pt. 2/2:32
15/How Long?/10:49
TRACKS BY LINDGREN, EXCEPT AS INDICATED

The Richard Lindgren story...
By Mr Broom Beacon Jr/Storyteller
Spellbound by the words and music of Bob Dylan, Richard Lindgren a twelwe- year old boy decided to become a singer himself. Alone in his grandpas trailer he decided not to come out until he had completed a song of his own. It took a couple of days to get it down because he didnt know how to play the guitar but eventually three chords descended upon that trailer and three chords will do anyday. Richard learned his craftsmanship quickly and even in the mid-eighties you could find him hammering away on his guitar in some local bar in his hometown Malmoe. Throughout the years he formed different bands, such as Kettlefish, a group inspired by country music and Irish folk music. The band lasted a couple of years and then it was time to move on. Richard has always written his own material and in 1995 he felt it was about time he got a record out. Ignored by the big record labels he rented a studio on his own and recorded his first album, simply called Richard Lindgren and distributed it himself. This album is now very hard to come across and rumor says that not even Richard has a copy.

In 1998 he set out searching for the ghost of Townes Van Zandt. He arrived on a Greyhound bus in Austin, Tx and stayed at a rundown motel on the outskirts of the city. For months he roamed the streets, wrote new material and played some gigs at some classic venues. When I once asked him if hed ever found the ghost of Townes he said I felt something at the Cactus Caf just as I was about to leave. Richard Lindgren spent the following years traveling alone with his acoustic guitar. These trips took him to stages in Austria and in the Czech Republic and especially in Vienna hes got a small audience who, when hes in town, rarely misses out on a show. During this period of time Richard wrote a lot of new songs and the time had come to release a second album. Postcard from Elsewhere was released in May 2003 and got some fine reviews though some thought it was a gloomy record. Lindgren toured on his own to promote the album and in Denmark he found an audience reciptive to his work. He now tours DK on a regular basis and hes formed a group with just danish musicians. Richard Lindgren has just completed his third album and it will be released sometime in the beginning of 2006.

He is currently signed to Scandinavian Recordings and at the present hes planning the recording of a fourth album which will also be released in 2006. In different costumes Richard Lindgren has played support act to artists such as Robyn Hitchcock, Ryan Adams and Jayhawks. Sometimes on his own, other times with Swedish backing group Transcendents. In the summer of 2005 he did the PRE-SPOT tour in Denmark together with The Tiny and Norwegian singer/songwriter Ane Brun. Richard received the Fjellis award in 2005.
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4724 - RICHARD LINDGREN - Memento 1994-2010: Best Of + Rare & Unreleased, Disc Two (2011)

RICHARD LINDGREN
''MEMENTO 1994-2010: BEST OF + RARE & UNRELEASED, DISC TWO''
APRIL 6 2011
208:44

Disc One
1/One Step Behind/4:06
2/Five Pints and a Wink From Gwendolyn/5:10
3/When My Days Are Done/2:36
4/Blue Sky Shut/4:12
5/Poets Drown In Lakes/3:59
6/Passenger/5:25
7/Blind Willie McTell
Bob Dylan/7:23
8/Mezcal Mae feat. Andi Almqvist
Andi Almqvist / Richard Lindgren /3:51
9/I Don't Belong In This World Anymore/4:24
10/Black Morning, Black Train/2:27
11/Aberdeen/7:20
12/Lone Star Blues/5:44
13/White Freightliner Blues
Townes Van Zandt/3:28
14/Take Tomorrow/3:21
15/Back To Brno/3:32
16/Doubt/3:44

DISC TWO
1/Drunk On Arrival/4:38
2/Portion of Love/4:37
3/Dead Man/5:23
4/Hello Mystery World/3:37
5/Grand Hotel/5:29
6/Goodbye Rosie/3:33
7/I Won't Recall You At All/3:14
8/My Kind of Place/5:42
9/Brother Flower
Townes Van Zandt/2:26
10/I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry feat. Maria Blom
Hank Williams/3:40
11/Lighthouse In the Dark/4:59
12/Famous Blue Raincoat
Leonard Cohen/6:34
13/I Can't Deliver That/5:51
14/Sweet Buttercup/2:45
15/Drinking Down Sorrow/7:27

DISC THREE
1/From Camden Town To Bleecker Street/3:16
2/Goner feat. Tiina W. Edring
Richard Lindgren/2:19
3/Bad News/3:09
4/Silver/2:25
5/You Know Who Your Lover Will Be/4:24
6/If Only She Came Walking By/4:36
7/David Reynolds' Last Ride/3:44
8/Tom Traubert's Blues
Tom Waits/5:38
9/Mixed-Up World/4:36
10/Deportees (Plane Wreck At Los Gatos)
Woody Guthrie / Martin Hoffman/6:52
11/A Man You Can Hate/3:58
12/If My Name's Ever on the Tip of Her Tongue/5:39
13/Song of Calamity/4:08
14/Untitled, Pt. 2/2:32
15/How Long?/10:49
TRACKS BY LINDGREN, EXCEPT AS INDICATED

The Richard Lindgren story...
By Mr Broom Beacon Jr/Storyteller
Spellbound by the words and music of Bob Dylan, Richard Lindgren a twelwe- year old boy decided to become a singer himself. Alone in his grandpas trailer he decided not to come out until he had completed a song of his own. It took a couple of days to get it down because he didnt know how to play the guitar but eventually three chords descended upon that trailer and three chords will do anyday. Richard learned his craftsmanship quickly and even in the mid-eighties you could find him hammering away on his guitar in some local bar in his hometown Malmoe. Throughout the years he formed different bands, such as Kettlefish, a group inspired by country music and Irish folk music. The band lasted a couple of years and then it was time to move on. Richard has always written his own material and in 1995 he felt it was about time he got a record out. Ignored by the big record labels he rented a studio on his own and recorded his first album, simply called Richard Lindgren and distributed it himself. This album is now very hard to come across and rumor says that not even Richard has a copy.

In 1998 he set out searching for the ghost of Townes Van Zandt. He arrived on a Greyhound bus in Austin, Tx and stayed at a rundown motel on the outskirts of the city. For months he roamed the streets, wrote new material and played some gigs at some classic venues. When I once asked him if hed ever found the ghost of Townes he said I felt something at the Cactus Caf just as I was about to leave. Richard Lindgren spent the following years traveling alone with his acoustic guitar. These trips took him to stages in Austria and in the Czech Republic and especially in Vienna hes got a small audience who, when hes in town, rarely misses out on a show. During this period of time Richard wrote a lot of new songs and the time had come to release a second album. Postcard from Elsewhere was released in May 2003 and got some fine reviews though some thought it was a gloomy record. Lindgren toured on his own to promote the album and in Denmark he found an audience reciptive to his work. He now tours DK on a regular basis and hes formed a group with just danish musicians. Richard Lindgren has just completed his third album and it will be released sometime in the beginning of 2006.

He is currently signed to Scandinavian Recordings and at the present hes planning the recording of a fourth album which will also be released in 2006. In different costumes Richard Lindgren has played support act to artists such as Robyn Hitchcock, Ryan Adams and Jayhawks. Sometimes on his own, other times with Swedish backing group Transcendents. In the summer of 2005 he did the PRE-SPOT tour in Denmark together with The Tiny and Norwegian singer/songwriter Ane Brun. Richard received the Fjellis award in 2005.
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4723 - RICHARD LINDGREN - Memento 1994-2010: Best Of + Rare & Unreleased, Disc One (2011)

RICHARD LINDGREN
''MEMENTO 1994-2010: BEST OF + RARE & UNRELEASED, DISC ONE''
APRIL 6 2011
208:44

Disc One
1/One Step Behind/4:06
2/Five Pints and a Wink From Gwendolyn/5:10
3/When My Days Are Done/2:36
4/Blue Sky Shut/4:12
5/Poets Drown In Lakes/3:59
6/Passenger/5:25
7/Blind Willie McTell
Bob Dylan/7:23
8/Mezcal Mae feat. Andi Almqvist
Andi Almqvist / Richard Lindgren /3:51
9/I Don't Belong In This World Anymore/4:24
10/Black Morning, Black Train/2:27
11/Aberdeen/7:20
12/Lone Star Blues/5:44
13/White Freightliner Blues
Townes Van Zandt/3:28
14/Take Tomorrow/3:21
15/Back To Brno/3:32
16/Doubt/3:44

DISC TWO
1/Drunk On Arrival/4:38
2/Portion of Love/4:37
3/Dead Man/5:23
4/Hello Mystery World/3:37
5/Grand Hotel/5:29
6/Goodbye Rosie/3:33
7/I Won't Recall You At All/3:14
8/My Kind of Place/5:42
9/Brother Flower
Townes Van Zandt/2:26
10/I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry feat. Maria Blom
Hank Williams/3:40
11/Lighthouse In the Dark/4:59
12/Famous Blue Raincoat
Leonard Cohen/6:34
13/I Can't Deliver That/5:51
14/Sweet Buttercup/2:45
15/Drinking Down Sorrow/7:27

DISC THREE
1/From Camden Town To Bleecker Street/3:16
2/Goner feat. Tiina W. Edring
Richard Lindgren/2:19
3/Bad News/3:09
4/Silver/2:25
5/You Know Who Your Lover Will Be/4:24
6/If Only She Came Walking By/4:36
7/David Reynolds' Last Ride/3:44
8/Tom Traubert's Blues
Tom Waits/5:38
9/Mixed-Up World/4:36
10/Deportees (Plane Wreck At Los Gatos)
Woody Guthrie / Martin Hoffman/6:52
11/A Man You Can Hate/3:58
12/If My Name's Ever on the Tip of Her Tongue/5:39
13/Song of Calamity/4:08
14/Untitled, Pt. 2/2:32
15/How Long?/10:49
TRACKS BY LINDGREN, EXCEPT AS INDICATED

The Richard Lindgren story...
By Mr Broom Beacon Jr/Storyteller
Spellbound by the words and music of Bob Dylan, Richard Lindgren a twelwe- year old boy decided to become a singer himself. Alone in his grandpas trailer he decided not to come out until he had completed a song of his own. It took a couple of days to get it down because he didnt know how to play the guitar but eventually three chords descended upon that trailer and three chords will do anyday. Richard learned his craftsmanship quickly and even in the mid-eighties you could find him hammering away on his guitar in some local bar in his hometown Malmoe. Throughout the years he formed different bands, such as Kettlefish, a group inspired by country music and Irish folk music. The band lasted a couple of years and then it was time to move on. Richard has always written his own material and in 1995 he felt it was about time he got a record out. Ignored by the big record labels he rented a studio on his own and recorded his first album, simply called Richard Lindgren and distributed it himself. This album is now very hard to come across and rumor says that not even Richard has a copy.

In 1998 he set out searching for the ghost of Townes Van Zandt. He arrived on a Greyhound bus in Austin, Tx and stayed at a rundown motel on the outskirts of the city. For months he roamed the streets, wrote new material and played some gigs at some classic venues. When I once asked him if hed ever found the ghost of Townes he said I felt something at the Cactus Caf just as I was about to leave. Richard Lindgren spent the following years traveling alone with his acoustic guitar. These trips took him to stages in Austria and in the Czech Republic and especially in Vienna hes got a small audience who, when hes in town, rarely misses out on a show. During this period of time Richard wrote a lot of new songs and the time had come to release a second album. Postcard from Elsewhere was released in May 2003 and got some fine reviews though some thought it was a gloomy record. Lindgren toured on his own to promote the album and in Denmark he found an audience reciptive to his work. He now tours DK on a regular basis and hes formed a group with just danish musicians. Richard Lindgren has just completed his third album and it will be released sometime in the beginning of 2006.

He is currently signed to Scandinavian Recordings and at the present hes planning the recording of a fourth album which will also be released in 2006. In different costumes Richard Lindgren has played support act to artists such as Robyn Hitchcock, Ryan Adams and Jayhawks. Sometimes on his own, other times with Swedish backing group Transcendents. In the summer of 2005 he did the PRE-SPOT tour in Denmark together with The Tiny and Norwegian singer/songwriter Ane Brun. Richard received the Fjellis award in 2005.
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4722 - RICHARD LINDGREN - Poet Drawn In Lakes_ A Live Recording (2009)

RICHARD LINDGREN
''POET DROWN IN LAKES: A LIVE RECORDING''
APRIL 29 2009
50:38

1/From Camden Town to Bleecker Street/3:19
2/Deportees/7:00
3/Poet Drown in Lakes/5:19
4/Five Pints and a Wink from Gwendolyn/5:18
5/Take Tomorrow/3:23
6/On the Nickel/8:25
7/At My Weakest/4:41
8/Song of Calamity/6:03
9/Grand Hotel/6:51

The Richard Lindgren story...
By Mr Broom Beacon Jr/Storyteller
Spellbound by the words and music of Bob Dylan, Richard Lindgren a twelwe- year old boy decided to become a singer himself. Alone in his grandpas trailer he decided not to come out until he had completed a song of his own. It took a couple of days to get it down because he didnt know how to play the guitar but eventually three chords descended upon that trailer and three chords will do anyday. Richard learned his craftsmanship quickly and even in the mid-eighties you could find him hammering away on his guitar in some local bar in his hometown Malmoe. Throughout the years he formed different bands, such as Kettlefish, a group inspired by country music and Irish folk music. The band lasted a couple of years and then it was time to move on. Richard has always written his own material and in 1995 he felt it was about time he got a record out. Ignored by the big record labels he rented a studio on his own and recorded his first album, simply called Richard Lindgren and distributed it himself. This album is now very hard to come across and rumor says that not even Richard has a copy.

In 1998 he set out searching for the ghost of Townes Van Zandt. He arrived on a Greyhound bus in Austin, Tx and stayed at a rundown motel on the outskirts of the city. For months he roamed the streets, wrote new material and played some gigs at some classic venues. When I once asked him if hed ever found the ghost of Townes he said I felt something at the Cactus Caf just as I was about to leave. Richard Lindgren spent the following years traveling alone with his acoustic guitar. These trips took him to stages in Austria and in the Czech Republic and especially in Vienna hes got a small audience who, when hes in town, rarely misses out on a show. During this period of time Richard wrote a lot of new songs and the time had come to release a second album. Postcard from Elsewhere was released in May 2003 and got some fine reviews though some thought it was a gloomy record. Lindgren toured on his own to promote the album and in Denmark he found an audience reciptive to his work. He now tours DK on a regular basis and hes formed a group with just danish musicians. Richard Lindgren has just completed his third album and it will be released sometime in the beginning of 2006.

He is currently signed to Scandinavian Recordings and at the present hes planning the recording of a fourth album which will also be released in 2006. In different costumes Richard Lindgren has played support act to artists such as Robyn Hitchcock, Ryan Adams and Jayhawks. Sometimes on his own, other times with Swedish backing group Transcendents. In the summer of 2005 he did the PRE-SPOT tour in Denmark together with The Tiny and Norwegian singer/songwriter Ane Brun. Richard received the Fjellis award in 2005.
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4721 - RICHARD LINDGREN - A Man You Can Hate (2008)

RICHARD LINDGREN
''A MAN YOU CAN HATE''
OCTOBER 29 2008
79:12

1/Dead Man/5:24
2/Back to Brno/3:29
3/Drunk on Arrival/4:06
4/From Camden Town to Bleecker Street/3:15
5/A Man You Can Hate/3:57
6/Wallflower Blues/7:21
7/Marlene/4:29
8/Trail of Constant Drift/2:37
9/East Chestnut Street
Jon Eriksson, Richard Lindgren/2:34
10/Aberdeen/5:00
11/Song for Frieda/3:52
12/I Don't Belong in This World Anymore/4:22
13/Home is Anywhere/2:44
14/Untitled/1:51
15/Persona Non Grata/5:12
16/How Long?/10:50
17/Lighthouse in the Dark/5:00
18/Doubt/3:06
Tracks By Lindgren, Except 9

Janne Adolfsson /Mandolin
Magnus Andersson /Guitar (Electric), Vocal Harmony
Fredrik Carlquist /Sax (Tenor)
Jonas Håkansson /Standup Bass
Olof Jernryd /Drums
Richard Lindgren /Guitar (Acoustic), Piano (Upright), Vocals
Sarah MacDougall /Vocals
Michael Nilsson /Vocal Harmony
Magnus Nörrenberg /Accordion, Glockenspiel, Guitar (Electric), Hammond B3, Harmonica, Harmonium, Mellotron, Organ, Piano, Piano (Upright), Tambourine, Wurlitzer
Henrik Poulsen /Bass, Standup Bass
Søren Poulsen /Drums
Svante Sjöblom /Banjo, Electric Slide Guitar, Guitar (Acoustic), Guitar (Electric)
Anders Thorén /Piano (Upright)

The Richard Lindgren story...
By Mr Broom Beacon Jr/Storyteller
Spellbound by the words and music of Bob Dylan, Richard Lindgren a twelwe- year old boy decided to become a singer himself. Alone in his grandpas trailer he decided not to come out until he had completed a song of his own. It took a couple of days to get it down because he didnt know how to play the guitar but eventually three chords descended upon that trailer and three chords will do anyday. Richard learned his craftsmanship quickly and even in the mid-eighties you could find him hammering away on his guitar in some local bar in his hometown Malmoe. Throughout the years he formed different bands, such as Kettlefish, a group inspired by country music and Irish folk music. The band lasted a couple of years and then it was time to move on. Richard has always written his own material and in 1995 he felt it was about time he got a record out. Ignored by the big record labels he rented a studio on his own and recorded his first album, simply called Richard Lindgren and distributed it himself. This album is now very hard to come across and rumor says that not even Richard has a copy.

In 1998 he set out searching for the ghost of Townes Van Zandt. He arrived on a Greyhound bus in Austin, Tx and stayed at a rundown motel on the outskirts of the city. For months he roamed the streets, wrote new material and played some gigs at some classic venues. When I once asked him if hed ever found the ghost of Townes he said I felt something at the Cactus Caf just as I was about to leave. Richard Lindgren spent the following years traveling alone with his acoustic guitar. These trips took him to stages in Austria and in the Czech Republic and especially in Vienna hes got a small audience who, when hes in town, rarely misses out on a show. During this period of time Richard wrote a lot of new songs and the time had come to release a second album. Postcard from Elsewhere was released in May 2003 and got some fine reviews though some thought it was a gloomy record. Lindgren toured on his own to promote the album and in Denmark he found an audience reciptive to his work. He now tours DK on a regular basis and hes formed a group with just danish musicians. Richard Lindgren has just completed his third album and it will be released sometime in the beginning of 2006.

He is currently signed to Scandinavian Recordings and at the present hes planning the recording of a fourth album which will also be released in 2006. In different costumes Richard Lindgren has played support act to artists such as Robyn Hitchcock, Ryan Adams and Jayhawks. Sometimes on his own, other times with Swedish backing group Transcendents. In the summer of 2005 he did the PRE-SPOT tour in Denmark together with The Tiny and Norwegian singer/songwriter Ane Brun. Richard received the Fjellis award in 2005.
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4720 - RICHARD LINDGREN - Salvation Hardcore (2007)

RICHARD LINDGREN
''SALVATION HARDCORE''
JANUARY 24 2007
47:12

1. Song of Calamity/4:08
2. Portion of Love/4:30
3. Cold Heart, Cruel World/3:47
4. Bad News/3:06
5. Mezcal Mae/4:14
6. Goodbye Rosie/3:31
7. When My Days Are Done/2:35
8. Tell Louise/3:23
9. One Step Behind/3:59
10. Five Pints And A Wink From Gwendolyn/4:29
11. After My Shadow Is Gone/4:10
12. Goner/2:02
13. Take Tomorrow/3:18

The Richard Lindgren story...
By Mr Broom Beacon Jr/Storyteller
Spellbound by the words and music of Bob Dylan, Richard Lindgren a twelwe- year old boy decided to become a singer himself. Alone in his grandpas trailer he decided not to come out until he had completed a song of his own. It took a couple of days to get it down because he didnt know how to play the guitar but eventually three chords descended upon that trailer and three chords will do anyday. Richard learned his craftsmanship quickly and even in the mid-eighties you could find him hammering away on his guitar in some local bar in his hometown Malmoe. Throughout the years he formed different bands, such as Kettlefish, a group inspired by country music and Irish folk music. The band lasted a couple of years and then it was time to move on. Richard has always written his own material and in 1995 he felt it was about time he got a record out. Ignored by the big record labels he rented a studio on his own and recorded his first album, simply called Richard Lindgren and distributed it himself. This album is now very hard to come across and rumor says that not even Richard has a copy.

In 1998 he set out searching for the ghost of Townes Van Zandt. He arrived on a Greyhound bus in Austin, Tx and stayed at a rundown motel on the outskirts of the city. For months he roamed the streets, wrote new material and played some gigs at some classic venues. When I once asked him if hed ever found the ghost of Townes he said I felt something at the Cactus Caf just as I was about to leave. Richard Lindgren spent the following years traveling alone with his acoustic guitar. These trips took him to stages in Austria and in the Czech Republic and especially in Vienna hes got a small audience who, when hes in town, rarely misses out on a show. During this period of time Richard wrote a lot of new songs and the time had come to release a second album. Postcard from Elsewhere was released in May 2003 and got some fine reviews though some thought it was a gloomy record. Lindgren toured on his own to promote the album and in Denmark he found an audience reciptive to his work. He now tours DK on a regular basis and hes formed a group with just danish musicians. Richard Lindgren has just completed his third album and it will be released sometime in the beginning of 2006.

He is currently signed to Scandinavian Recordings and at the present hes planning the recording of a fourth album which will also be released in 2006. In different costumes Richard Lindgren has played support act to artists such as Robyn Hitchcock, Ryan Adams and Jayhawks. Sometimes on his own, other times with Swedish backing group Transcendents. In the summer of 2005 he did the PRE-SPOT tour in Denmark together with The Tiny and Norwegian singer/songwriter Ane Brun. Richard received the Fjellis award in 2005.
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