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Shout! 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
Found in: Music, ReviewsRichard Thompson to Release First Solo Acoustic Album in 24 Years
Richard Thompson will release his first acoustic solo album since 1981—and first-ever album of all-original material—on Aug. 9. Front Parlour Ballads includes 13 songs featuring Thompson on vocals, guitars and other instruments. Thompson has several other projects planned for 2005. • A live CD and DVD of his 2001 performance at Austin City Limits is currently available from New West Records. • Richard Thompson Band’s 2003 Live in Providence DVD will be re-released this month, • A five-disc boxed set of Thompson’s songs, including unreleased material, and his soundtrack to Werner Herzog’s film Grizzly Man will be available this fall.... read more
Found in: Music, NewsListening To Old Voices: Richard Thompson
Sustained musical greatness is as hard to find as a Britney Spears chorus in the Norton Anthology of Poetry... read more
Found in: Music, FeaturesRichard Thompson
It’s a typically English tableau: On a summer afternoon, on a green field under mackerel skies, a man in white swings a cricket bat at an oncoming ball. read more
Found in: Music, FeaturesRichard Thompson - Live at the House of Blues
The couple in the opera box next to me seemed to be getting on quite well for the first third of the show. By all appearances Richard Thompson’s performance was acting on them like Spanish fly... read more
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