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"Life Aint That Long"
2018 Kerrville New Folk Winner Rich Krueger's Acclaimed Debut Album

“[Krueger’s] a major songwriter, complete with wavery high baritone that hurts so much it'll make ordinary mortals wince.” - Robert Christgau, The Dean of American Rock Critics 2/9/18 Noisey (Vice)

“Krueger reaches way down and creates his own musical paths, song after song. Paths which suck you into an altered universe in which you get lost in other peoples problems and successes for a change. So damn good. ...maybe perfect music for the moment.  Rich Krueger, where have you been hiding?”—No Depression The Journal of Roots Music

“[Krueger’s] serious songwriter with razor sharp wit, a sometimes surreal way with words and an excellent ability to blend various musical styles ending up with his own idiosyncratic sound…There’s no template for a Krueger song and the album weaves like a drunken sailor with bar room wisdom, tin pan alley pop, country and old fashioned R’n’B  all stumbling into view.  Sure enough there are shades of Springsteen, Newman, Bukowski and Van Morrison here and there but it’s all filtered through Krueger’s sardonic prism.” - Paul Kerr Blabber n’ Smoke (Glasgow)

Life Aint That Long

Ain't It So Nice Outside Today

HOW'VE YOU BEEN 
by J. Risker

And if you think the skies are grey
Too restless for the night
Around the earth in forty days
Still spinning from the flight
How’ve you been my friend
It’s been so long
you ought to know
It’s how are you are I want to know

I wasn’t certain what to do
with you until I found
and picked a penny off the ground
and turned the clues around
How’ve you been my friend
I feel so far
you ought to know
It’s how are you are I want to know

How’ve you been ?

I can’t decide if it’s all a phase
I'm driving in formation all over the place

How’ve you been ?

I miss the way you used to smile
with eyes and called at night
and all the parks we used to ride
and hide and hide and hide
How’ve you been my friend
I feel so tired
you ought to know
It’s how are you are I want to know

How’ve you been ?

HOW'VE YOU BEEN

Just A Little Taste

Lost in the Stars (guitar)

I can be completely reconstructed out of debris found on most ordinary city streets. 

 Rich Krueger, a singer-songwriter based now in Chicago Il (formerly in Duke City, NM , before that LA, and before that Chicago, Illinois), was born in Bedford-Stuyvesant, NYC in 1960, during that difficult period of transition after the Spanish-American War. It was a Wednesday and rained the whole following week. He has been writing and performing, solo and with his band The Dysfunctionells, largely in Chicago, but also in NYC and Kerrville, since 1985. The Dysfunctionells have backed up the Holy Modal Rounders at their reunion at The Bottom Line in NYC, and The Dysfunctionells have recorded with Peter Stampfel of the HMR. Rich has a self-produced song demo on CD entitled "Personal Overachievement Rich Krueger" or PORK for short, and the next album tenatively entitiled TROTH, or maybe Pledged Fidelity, is half in the can. He does not bowl. There are literally tens of rabid Rich Krueger fans scattered all over the globe...poor sods all. .. He can be contacted by e-mail at richard.krueger@yahoo.com. 

 Here are what some critics, DJs, and other performers have to say about him... "Talented...highly distinctive songwriter...cerebral, ironic....Richard Thompsonesque" --Michael Parrish, Dirty Linen 

 "Krueger's melodies, phrasing, and carefully-crafted lyrics call to mind the very best singer-songwriters: Elvis Costello, Paul Simon, Bruce Springsteen. But his vision is very much his own. " -- Jennifer Zogott, Folk Roots Magazine (Britain) 

 "As a lifelong fan of True Deep American Strangeness, I came to a realization after leaving Milwaukee for the last time in 1959: The Truest, Deepest American Strangeness is to be found in the Heartland,the Great Midwest. As a perfect example, take a song--any song--of Rich Krueger, and you will see exactly what I mean. Rich is an American Stranger, if I ever did see one." -- Peter Stampfel of the Holy Modal Rounders 

 " The high point of my trip to Kerrville in 1996...Quirky, unique, original...A breath of fresh air amid the quagmire of mediocre self-produced CDs" -- Jack Hardy 

 "Rich Krueger's songs come from the less traveled roads of the heart. I look forward to going there with him." -- Ezra Idlet of Trout Fishing in America
 
links
I collated some links you all may be interested in:

 

The Dysfunctionells " Little Richard's World of Mirth" Vdeo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nFI8SuktziU

 

‘Charlie Holley and The Cripples’ with some background on “Ain’t It So Nice Outside Today”

http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=122120090162

Story of visiting the Loaves and Fishes Shelter in Sacramento with some background on “In Betweeen Kingfishers”

http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=195925070162

A complete list of my song and lyrics...a work in progress

http://wwwpissoceanrainstormhightide.blogspot.com/2012/03/collected-lyrics-for-first-100-songs-by.html

 

Some of my songs on reverbnation

http://www.reverbnation.com/richkrueger

My YouTube Channel

http://www.youtube.com/user/rkruegervideo

My blog

http://wwwpissoceanrainstormhightide.blogspot.com/

Some of my songs on soundcloud

http://soundcloud.com/richardkrueger


Ain't It So Nice Outside Today

richard.krueger@yahoo.com

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