Richard Thompson: Electric
Richard Thompson recorded Electric with Americana producing pro Buddy Miller in a Nashville studio. read more
Found in: Music, ReviewsBand Romance: Musical Couples Through the Years
One of the strange things about popular music is that most songs are monologues. We get one person’s side of a relationship but not the other’s. The obvious exceptions are lovers who are both singer/songwriters. read more
Found in: Music, FeaturesAnnie Lennox and Richard Thompson Receive OBE Awards
At a ceremony at Buckingham Palace on Tuesday, two legendary British musicians were awarded the Order of the British Empire by Queen Elizabeth II.... read more
Found in: Music, NewsThe 50 Best British Artists of All Time
While all eyes are on the throne, we pay tribute to our 50 favorite British artists—a rock 'n roll royal family of sorts. read more
Found in: Blogs, List of the DayRichard Thompson: Dream Attic
A legend trades the studio for the stage Minus the applause, you wouldn’t know that Richard Thompson’s Dream Attic is a live album. The former Fairport Convention lead guitarist supposedly chose this setting for its inherent spontaneity, but the songs are played, produced and mixed with such flawless precision that they’re missing the color and blemishes of an actual live show. That’s not to say the album lacks spirit; it could just be that, after 40 years as a performer, he doesn’t make mistakes. Dream Attic, which contains all new material, was recorded over three nights at the Great American... read more
Found in: Music, ReviewsShout! Factory prepping Richard Thompson box set
Over the past 40 years, Richard Thompson has amassed what you could call an ambitious catalogue of songs. The british guitar virtuoso has written hundreds of songs in his multiple musical incarnations, which include work with Fairport Convention, then-wife Linda Thompson, and solo endeavors.... read more
Found in: Music, NewsDavy Graham: 1940 - 2008
British musician Davy Graham died Monday from a massive seizure after a short battle with lung cancer. He was 68 years old. The little-known guitarist, singer and arranger got his start playing folk-blues clubs in the early 1960s, where his fusion of folk, blues and jazz with Arabic and Indian flourishes caught the ear of several artists who would become hugely influential in years to come.... read more
Found in: Music, NewsRichard Thompson - Sweet Warrior
Another veteran artist delivers a provocative take on living with war read more
Found in: Music, ReviewsRichard Thompson Plugs In For Sweet Warrior
Guitar god Richard Thompson is back and, for the first time since 2003’s The Old Kit Bag, sporting an electric axe. Sweet Warrior, slated for a May 29 release by Shout! Factory, is the Londoner’s first album of all-new material in nearly two years and features appearances by frequent collaborators Danny Thompson, Michael Jerome, Judith Owen and Sara Watkins of Nickel Creek. As a whole, the record plays like a book of short stories, each with its own set of characters, including a mournful widower, a dissolute husband and wife and a young soldier stationed in Baghdad in the unabashedly... read more
Found in: Music, NewsRichard Thompson - Front Parlour Ballads
Legendary folk artist trips up on new album read more
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