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Reunion Hill - Richard Shindell
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  1. The Next Best Western
  2. Smiling
  3. May
  4. I Saw My Youth Today
  5. Reunion Hill
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  1. The Next Best Western
  2. Smiling
  3. May
  4. I Saw My Youth Today
  5. Reunion Hill
  6. Beyond the Iron Gate
  7. Darkness, Darkness
  8. Money for Floods
  9. Easy Street
  10. The Weather
  11. I'll Be Here in the Morning
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In "The Next Best Western," the opening track of this terrific collection of tunes, life on the road takes its toll both literally and figuratively. The narrator goes so far as to question God's motives as he rolls along the turnpike: "Did he who made the lamb/Put the tremble in the hand/That reaches out to take my quarter?" Indeed, Shindell works in landscapes of desperation and longing throughout the album, with fugitives ("May"), absent fathers ("I Saw My Youth Today") and other assorted average Joes that you pass on the ...

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Reunion Hill 1997, Shanachie

UPC: 016351802729

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