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Reunion Hill
Reunion Hill
Studio album by Richard Shindell
Released	August 19, 1997
Studio	Sorcerer Sound, New York City
Genre	Folk, singer-songwriter
Length	46:52
Label	Shanachie
Producer	Larry Campbell
Richard Shindell chronology

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	^[1]
Fretplay	^[2]
No Depression	favorable^[3]

Reunion Hill is a 1997 album by singer-songwriter Richard Shindell. It was Shindell's third and final studio album for Shanachie Records. Allmusic calls the album "songcraft at its finest."^[1] The album includes a cover of "I'll Be Here in the Morning" by Townes Van Zandt who died earlier that same year.

Shindell composed the title song in 1996 for Joan Baez,^[4] who later included it on her Gone From Danger album. It was also covered by Fairport Convention on their 2011 CD Festival Bell and Show of Hands on their 2012 album Wake the Union. The song is written from the perspective of a Civil War widow. Baez also covered "Money for Floods" on Gone From Danger.

Track listing

All songs by Richard Shindell except where noted

"The Next Best Western" – 4:35
"Smiling" (Larry Campbell, Shindell) – 4:43
"May" – 4:37
"I Saw My Youth Today" – 3:18
"Reunion Hill" – 4:28
"Beyond the Iron Gate" – 5:24
"Darkness, Darkness" (Jesse Colin Young) – 3:56
"Money for Floods" – 3:46
"Easy Street" – 3:58
"The Weather" – 3:49
"I'll Be Here in the Morning" (Townes Van Zandt) – 4:18

Personnel

Musicians:

Richard Shindell – vocals, acoustic guitar, harmony, percussion
Larry Campbell – acoustic, electric and baritone guitars, bouzouki, mandolin, pedal steel, lap steel, fiddle, percussion
Lucy Kaplansky – harmony
Frank Vilardi – drums, percussion
Radoslav Lorković – piano, Hammond B3, harmonium, accordion
Dave Richards – electric and upright bass
Robby Walsh – Bodhran
Teresa Williams – harmony

Production

Produced by Larry Campbell
Recorded by Tim Conklin at Sorcerer Sound New York City
and by Al Hemberger, Matt Baxter and Roy Matthews at The Loft Bronxville, New York
Mixed at The Loft by Larry Campbell, Al Hemberger, and Richard Shindell