"Richard Berman is one of the most gifted songwriters I have ever met.
With a wry sense of humor, and topics most writers don't dare approach,
he weaves through musical genres with a master's touch. Richard's songs
defy labels like folk or pop-- they are simply songs you must hear for
yourself."
Tom Prasada-Rao

"This man has the gift." So said Utah Phillips, legendary figure in
American folk music, after hearing Richard Berman sing at the Kerrville
Folk Festival's Ballad Tree in 1992. And Richard has used that gift to
write many songs that tell moving, true stories. "Gil's Song", the song
that prompted Utah Phillip's appraisal, is the tale of a Wyoming
sheepherder's one brief attempt at closeness and its consequences.
Humor, too, is part of Richard's performance, as in "Monopoly", his
first-person account of the power of that game on behavior, and "The
Kids Are Back", his take on the latest stage in family development, both
songs from Richard's second CD, Love Work and Play. His third CD,
Dreamer, included his first songs of requited love, "A Love Song" and
"Here And Now" and the powerful depiction of anti-Semitism, "Jacob
Weintraub". Both Love, Work and Play and Dreamer were chosen "One of the
Best Folk Albums" of 1996 and 1998, respectively, by Rich Warren, host
of "The Midnight Special" on WFMT in Chicago, the longest continuously
running folk radio show in the country. Richard's 4th CD, Storied Lives,
won the 2001 Just Plain Folks Award for "Best Traditional Folk" CD. 
2005 saw the release of Holding Hands which was chosen one the "Top Ten
Albums" of the year by Maggie Ferguson of WXOU and one of the eleven
"Essential CDs" of 2005 by Bill Hahn of WFDU.