'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 it's consequences. Humor, too, is part of Richard's performance, as in 'Monopoly', his first-person acc