S/D: Richard Thompson

The Old Kit Bag has some excellent stuff on it though a bit front-loaded - I still come back to "One Door Opens." A lot of people love Mock Tudor but I remember it being spotty, it may just have been the switch back to more stripped-down production.

I prefer Semi-Detached Mock Tudor for those songs

Old Kit Bag has this one, which I think is one of the prettiest songs he's ever written:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPxy0HJFZHE

Youtube threw this at me yesterday, a Richard & Linda TV concert from '81

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=60Kdf17Btrs

I've been listening to Daring Adventures a lot. I stan for "Nearly in Love," written seemingly to get a hit.

I think he's playing a solo acoustic living room show right now ...

https://www.facebook.com/watch/live/?v=144162387012169&external_log_id=3d56609a8922a74fb71654ef8fdb1cb8

Dunno if that works, but his facebook page!

He's a class act, that guy.

This is a pretty funny stream.

He's always been funny whenever I've seen him in concert.

Good stuff. Reminded me a bit of when I saw him solo at New Orleans jazz fest

Robyn Hitchcock has been doing the same. He warns that his connection is slow though and to expect glitches lol

Is this the same set as posted above? Seems ten minutes shorter.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FhSt-WUKXvs

1952 Vincent Black Lightning has too much braggadocio for my liking

lol

Fair comment, i think.

I don't know how anyone could possibly claim that there is an ounce of braggadocio in this song, so I'm going to write it off as a prime example of ILX challops.

Can someone please recommend me some folk music without all that braggadocio?

Also, a salad without any radicchio?

classical sonatas without any arpeggio

Early Disney features without all that Pinocchio.

Pere Ubu without "30 Seconds Over Tokyo.'

Bohemian rhapsody without the Galileo

Belafonte without "Day-O"

If you want your folk music more violent, try "The Cruel Mother"

She took her penknife, keen and sharp
Oh, the rose and the linsie-o
She has stucked it to their hearts
Down by the greenwood sidie-o

A sandwich without carpaccio

Shakespeare without the First Folio

Janeane without Garafalo.

Cellist Ma without the Yo-Yo

Karate without the dojo

Folk music without the hey nonny no.

Naughty By Nature's "Hip Hop Hooray" without the "ho!!"

Harry Belafonte without "Day O."

Top Chef without Tom Colicchio

Star Wars without C-3PO

"12 Inches of" without the "Snow."

Doug E. Fresh without "The Show."

Margaret without the Cho.

Jeff Bridges without Beau.

(Josh, sorry but it looks like Simon beat you to it)

This thread is becoming... an imbroglio.

Hamilton without "Rochambeau."

"Orinoco" without the "Flow."

(these could be stupid Beastie Boys lyrics)

Stupid Beastie boys lyrics without "And I got more hits than Sadaharu Oh"

Beastie's "Slow and Low" without the tempo.

Si Tu Dois Partir without the need to go

Heart emoji

https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/71jNo95M-dL._SY355_.jpg

If that doesn't show up, it's Live At Rock City: Nottingham 1986
Anyall heard this?

I've not heard it, but I can only assume it's great. Because Richard Thompson.

I picked up dinner somewhere last week and the guy handing me my food had a Jason Isbell shirt on. I made some small talk with him, and he told me he and a couple of folks from the restaurant had actually made a road trip out of seeing Isbell play some place down south. Maybe Knoxville? Possibly as far as Florida? Anyway, this date apparently had Richard Thompson opening, and I told the guy I suspected Isbell arranged it just to watch Thompson play every night. And the guy with my food said he and his friend were totally unfamiliar with Thompson until that night and were left absolutely speechless and for a bit confused, because it sounded like three guys on stage rather than just one.

Oh yeah. And not just any three guys. I strung out, stalking him and his acoustic guitar around the world on Youtube, 2011--12, just sitting on park benches and what not, playing clubs, and yes totally amazing. This after seeing a rerun of some cable special, a monster opera house tribute to Joni Mitchell, who was presiding in a box seat: RT and some guys dashed off a very glib (though no worse than the original) "Raised On Robbery," and The Queen frowned, but later he came back all alone, to do an incredible "Woodstock," and she actually looked impressed, nodded, *maybe* even clapped (maybe he'd gotten the word).

I *got* strung out