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  • Memento: Best Of + Rare & Unreleased Tracks 1994-2010

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    Artist: Richard Lindgren

    Label: Rootsy

    A 3CD box set. 46 songs, 22 previously unreleased. Booklet with Richards Lindgrens own recollections of the songs and recordings. Liner notes by Mary Gauthier.

    They say there is no one more honest than a dying man, and Richard Lindgren sings and writes like a dying man. He creates music like someone who has nothing to lose. His songs are honest, raw, real. It’s like he is talking to me in confidence, singing personally to me his hearts’ secrets.

    I remember the first time I heard the music of Richard Lindgren. His songs grabbed me immediately, making it impossible for me to turn his music off. I simply HAD to hear the next song, then the next one. I forgot about what I was supposed to be doing next. I just sat there listening, and a smile broke across my face because against the odds, I’d found a new artist to love.

    As song after song went by and held my attention, I felt my heart open, time went away, and Richard Lindgren sang me back to my love of the art, the craft, and the magic of the troubadour-back to that jaw dropping place where the mystery of the creator is embedded in the creation of a human being. As I listened to Richard sing I remembered, once more, the power of song.

    I’ve always felt there is an unspoken contract between the writer and the listener, an agreement. It goes like this—as a listener, when I give music my attention, I expect the songwriter to give me something back in return, something as valuable to me as my time, something I can belie...

  • Poets Drown In Lakes - A Live Recording

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    Artist: Richard Lindgren

    Label: Rootsy

    April 15 Richard Lindgren played a magical show in his hometown of Malmö. He performed two sets of songs from his four albums, several brand new songs and some hand picked covers. The first set all alone on stage with his guitar and a piano, the second with backed by Micke Nilsson (upright bass), Janne Adolfsson (mandolin) and Svante Sjöblom (National, dobro, banjo).

  • A Man You Can Hate

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    Artist: Richard Lindgren

    Label: Rootsy

    In these troubled times, artists seriously consider to stop making CDs and just release songs on myspace or itunes or whatever. Swedish singer/songwriter Richard Lindgren goes the other way. His fourth album »A Man You Can Hate is a double CD with 18 new original songs.

    All involved in this project are of course well aware that this is probably not the smartest move rght now, but sometimes you have to defy common sense and just go with your gut feeling.

    And the gut feeling in this case says that «A Man You Can Hate» is an important piece of art. Both discs, all 18 songs.

    The music might be traditional in the Dylan/The Band/Young/Springsteen sense, but Richard Lindgren reaches new levels. As a singer and as a songwriter. We're not talking any light hearted feel-good songs here. In his songs Lindgren deals with love, hatred, loss, self loathing, doubt, dreams and nightmares. It's dark, almost scary, but still enjoyable in a strange way. Much thanks to the dark humor.

    And even more thanks to the excellent musicians and the work of Lindgren and co-producer and engineer Magnus Nörrenberg. The sound of «A man You Can Hate" is warm and comfortable, yet with an edge.