S/D: Richard Thompson

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

This thread is becoming... an imbroglio.

i am not throwing away my snot (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 3 June 2020 23:18 (four years ago) link

Hamilton without "Rochambeau."

Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 3 June 2020 23:22 (four years ago) link

"Orinoco" without the "Flow."

Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 3 June 2020 23:22 (four years ago) link

(these could be stupid Beastie Boys lyrics)

Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 3 June 2020 23:23 (four years ago) link

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

fatuous salad (symsymsym), Friday, 5 June 2020 01:06 (four years ago) link

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

Josh in Chicago, Friday, 5 June 2020 01:45 (four years ago) link

Si Tu Dois Partir without the need to go

the burrito that defined a generation, Friday, 5 June 2020 01:57 (four years ago) link

Heart emoji

The little engine that choogled (hardcore dilettante), Saturday, 6 June 2020 06:36 (four years ago) link

two months pass...

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?

dow, Sunday, 16 August 2020 02:34 (four years ago) link

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.

Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 16 August 2020 16:30 (four years ago) link

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).

dow, Sunday, 16 August 2020 20:21 (four years ago) link

I *got* strung out

dow, Sunday, 16 August 2020 20:22 (four years ago) link

Recommendation for Thompson obscurity hunters:

https://www.discogs.com/Various-Hard-Cash/release/3686033

Hard Cash, Brit Folk compilation co-compiled by RT for a documentary series about work. He writes/performs 2, writes or plays on several others. Includes June Tabor, Martin Carthy, The Watersons, Gregson/Collister. Most songs good-to-great.

Hideous Lump, Tuesday, 18 August 2020 05:25 (four years ago) link

two weeks pass...

Richard Thompson
SUN, Sept 13, Sept 27th, & Oct 11 at 2PM PDT
Virtual Meet & Greet and Merch add-ons available

"Live From London – my Livestream Series will be three unique shows each with a completely different setlist and all professionally produced and as close to being at a live gig as we can possibly get it! The livestreams will be available for 48 hours after each show. The first show I will be playing my new EP, Bloody Noses, in full as well as classic hits. The second stream will be Fairport Convention Era music with a majority of songs from the 60’s and 70’s. The last show will be all requests so be sure to send in your requests ahead of time! I am very much looking forward to this series and I hope you can join me for one or all three shows." -Richard Thompson

More info: https://boxoffice.mandolin.com/collections/richard-thompson?rfsn=4651697.b3ce54 and https://www.richardthompson-music.com/

dow, Sunday, 6 September 2020 02:43 (four years ago) link

Oh and thanks for the xpost Hard Cash tip, Hideous Lump! Looks v. promising,

dow, Sunday, 6 September 2020 02:47 (four years ago) link

four weeks pass...

Bloody Noses, 6 songs on bandcamp:
This is an all-acoustic EP recorded at home during lockdown.
All instruments played by Richard Thompson, some harmony vocals by Zara Phillips.

"All acoustic" seems to incl. some deft use of pick-ups, something in the recording set-up allowing for some effects I associate more with per se electric guitar on strong closer "What's Up With You?", in which some of the guitars get percussive as hell, also one of 'em's tuning helps, and sounds like might be actual drums on "The Fortress," with Zara Phillips chiming in effectively on the chorus, "You had the whole world, wrapped around your fin-gah," also good on "Survivor."
Fave so far is "She's A Hard Girl To Know," which I had trouble following at first: so many details, scenes in his head, as he creeps through the rooms, putting it all together, maybe. She's still keeping him going, he knows that much.
Tunes are good, and it's all RT as hell, no surprises, but not just killing time either.
Must check some of the other stuff on here as well:
https://richardthompson.bandcamp.com/

dow, Monday, 5 October 2020 22:59 (four years ago) link

two weeks pass...

been repeatedly blasting out Rumor & Sigh tonight, fucking sick album.

calzino, Wednesday, 21 October 2020 01:34 (four years ago) link

just did an hour's worth of RT electric live jams on Dublab: https://www.dublab.com/archive/radio-free-aquarium-drunkard-w-guest-chad-depasquale-10-18-20

Starts about two hours in.

tylerw, Wednesday, 21 October 2020 02:14 (four years ago) link

two months pass...

Seems he's got a memoir coming out, Beeswing.

Dog Heavy Manners (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 3 January 2021 19:17 (three years ago) link

yeah just saw that was on the Rough Trade upcoming page. But I thinnk it may not be out until April.
Sounds good anyway.

Stevolende, Monday, 4 January 2021 00:05 (three years ago) link

Yes, that date sounds about right

Dog Heavy Manners (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 4 January 2021 03:33 (three years ago) link

one month passes...

Yeah---RT's 'Beeswing' Memoir - Available April 6!

Very excited to be announcing the forthcoming publication of my book ‘Beeswing’. This is a memoir of the years 1967-76, an important, turbulent and world-changing decade in music. -RT Pre-order info via this:https://mailchi.mp/richardthompson-music/richard-thompson-frets-and-refrains-2018-on-sale-604114?e=3412af6338

Also on there:
We had great fun performing the Live From London shows, that streamed online recently. We felt the audio quality was so good that we wanted to pick the best of those tracks, and release them on Bandcamp. I tried to pick an interesting and less obvious selection - hope you like the ones I chose! -RT
Bandcamp sez: from his livestream series in 2020 from Kore Studios in the UK.
Out today, Bandcamp Friday, w several sample tracks kicking it off:
https://richardthompson.bandcamp.com/album/live-from-london

dow, Saturday, 6 February 2021 02:22 (three years ago) link

two months pass...

By no means a Thompson completist, I've only really been slowly digging my way into his non-Fairport work over the last few years, but I picked up the first French, Frith, Kaiser & Thompson dirt cheap on a whim - this is so great! Didn't realize how much I needed Thompson's guitars with Drumbo on the kit, but I love how silly and irreverent this is.

soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 12 April 2021 21:20 (three years ago) link

yeah, it's a very cool record!

just started RT's memoir — really good so far. Just Fairport's 1969 seems like it could be an entire book on its own.

tylerw, Monday, 12 April 2021 21:27 (three years ago) link

No doubt! Will have to get that. Reminds me that I just came across this passage in a chronicle of South Africa's Blue Notes interacting with European musos:

Now Cape Town meets Canterbury. This 2020 reissue (Dudu Phukwana & The “Spears”) from the indispensable Matsuli Music contains two albums: Dudu’s S.A.-only 1968 solo debut, which gives this package its misspelled name, plus a recently discovered session. Both feature Pukwana, McGregor, Feza, and Maholo, more S.A. expats (bassist Harry Miller, trombonist Jonas Gwangwa) and future members of the great London-based Ghanaian Afro-funk band Osibisa. Yet the newly found Joe Boyd-produced sessions add Fairport Convention guitarists Richard Thompson and Simon Nicol for freewheelin’ cross-cultural wonder. Highly swinging horn- and guitar-heavy Afro-pop and kwela grooves shed more light on Pukwana’s melodic brightness and his ability to bridge continental gaps without sacrificing personality.
--From:
https://daily.bandcamp.com/lists/blue-notes-south-african-jazz-guide?utm_source=footer

dow, Tuesday, 13 April 2021 00:15 (three years ago) link

Xpost

“A Blind Step Away” is easily in my all time top ten RT songs

covidsbundlertanze op. 6 (Jon not Jon), Tuesday, 13 April 2021 02:03 (three years ago) link

That's a great one, also love "Drowned Black Dog Night". The whole thing is really great though, so many unexpected moments - I love how the "Surfin U.S.A." cover starts out pretty straight before going completely off the rails when the backing vocals kick in. The CD reissue adds a couple of other terrific songs, including "DrumBo Ogie", essentially an excuse for Drumbo to have a solo, and ends with cover of Willie Dixon's "The Same Thing" that is surprisingly straight-faced, considering the rest of the album.

soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 13 April 2021 13:45 (three years ago) link

"DrumBo Ogie" is a great song title.

It Is Dangerous to Meme Inside (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 13 April 2021 15:05 (three years ago) link

There’s a live recording out there of French Frith Kaiser Thompson, maybe the only live show they did? It is great.

covidsbundlertanze op. 6 (Jon not Jon), Wednesday, 14 April 2021 00:30 (three years ago) link

The first FFKT album is really one of my all-time favorites (and I discovered it by chance... it was misfiled at Amoeba, decades ago).

Yawnsomely Literal Cover Band (morrisp), Wednesday, 14 April 2021 00:50 (three years ago) link

Watch for Roy Eldridge - "Little Jazz!" - around the two minute mark, which segment was deleted in the South for some reason back in the day.

It Is Dangerous to Meme Inside (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 14 April 2021 00:51 (three years ago) link

six months pass...

Frets and Refrains, RT's guitar and songwriting camp, is back for its 10th Anniversary, in 2022:
...We hope you will be able to join us for what should be a special year. We will be joined by a couple of our most popular teachers from the past, Martin Simpson and Jill Sobule, and we will have our regular instructors, Happy Traum, Sloan Wainwright, Teddy Thompson, Jack Thompson, Zak Hobbs, Bobby Eichorn, Simon Tassano, and Annaliese Tassano. We are also expecting some very special guests to drop by!

We are proud of the community that has built up over this decade of camp, and love the fact that you can learn so much from fellow attendees, and that the atmosphere is supportive of every level of skill. The setting is Full Moon resort, in the picturesque Catskill Mountains, the food is excellent, and if you are any level of singer, songwriter or guitarist, we guarantee you will come away enriched and buzzing with ideas!

I hope you will join us.

Best wishes,

Richard Thompson
and the Thompson family, Zak, Teddy and Jack

More info and links:
https://mailchi.mp/richardthompson-music/richard-thompson-frets-and-refrains-2018-on-sale-604126?e=3412af6338

dow, Thursday, 28 October 2021 01:18 (three years ago) link

Any of yall heard Serpent's Tears? Only one track streaming freely here: https://richardthompson.bandcamp.com/

dow, Thursday, 28 October 2021 01:21 (three years ago) link

four months pass...

For 40th Anniversary of Shoot Out The Lights, two sets of R&T w Simon Nicol etc. in NYC, at the Lone Star: https://doomandgloomfromthetomb.tumblr.com/post/678799150803042304/richard-linda-thompson-lone-star-cafe-nyc

dow, Thursday, 17 March 2022 00:52 (two years ago) link

Richard Thompson
@RthompsonMusic
The 45th Anniversary re-issue of RT’s 1976 Collection of Rarities with Fairport Convention, Linda Thompson, and solo will be releasing 3/25.

This remastered vinyl will also contain a download card and is available for pre-order from RT’s UK store now at http://richardthompson-music.com/ukstorevinyl

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FOaHLTpXMAEjMFO?format=jpg&name=medium

dow, Tuesday, 22 March 2022 23:17 (two years ago) link

Also, No Quarter is reissuing his soundtrack to Grizzly Man on May 6th:

Excited to announce a reissue of Richard Thompson's masterful soundtrack to Grizzly Man available May 6th on CD, LP and digital formats. Music From Grizzly Man is a remastered/repackaged set containing all of the music Thompson recorded for the Werzer Herzog-directed documentary about life and death in the Alaskan wilderness. Comprised of both solo compositions and material recorded in chamber setting, with Jim O’Rourke (piano, guitar), Danielle DeGruttola (cello), Damon Smith (upright bass) and John Hanes (percussion) joining Thompson to create tenderly detailed melodies and quietly visceral improvisations. The solo recordings are intimate meditations – from the acoustic opener “Tim & The Bears” to the long night of “Treadwell No More,” a harrowing darkness in slicing treble and tremolo shiver.

https://richardthompson.bandcamp.com/album/music-from-grizzly-man

a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 23 March 2022 14:42 (two years ago) link

four weeks pass...

So Beeswing is out in paperback, and Terry Gross is talking to RT, even got him singing "Adieu, Adieu" (he's in a carpark, birdwatching)--stream, download, even read:
https://www.npr.org/2022/04/20/1093709649/fairport-convention-band-cofounder-richard-thompson-looks-back-on-his-life-in-mu Also, "you have a drone and melody and not an awful lot of saying what the chord is. And just drone and melody is a very old tradition. A lot of pipe music, bagpipe music from all around the world - it's basically drone and melody. So it's a very ancient thing. And you don't have to develop that into a chord structure necessarily. You can keep that ambiguity going. So in Fairport, eventually we really tried to do a lot more of that." Short excerpts, but good assortment so far. Going to break with "1952 Vincent Black Lightning."

dow, Thursday, 21 April 2022 00:31 (two years ago) link

Wow, this is intense. And lucid as hell.

dow, Thursday, 21 April 2022 00:43 (two years ago) link

Re "Adieu Adieu": there's a lovely version by Eliza Carthy that I rather like.

She's using the same melody as Thompson but it's an appealingly bonkers arrangement.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kP1-4RZJN-M

Fifty Centaur (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 21 April 2022 01:49 (two years ago) link

two weeks pass...

I interviewed Richard Thompson! https://aquariumdrunkard.com/2022/05/05/richard-thompson-the-aquarium-drunkard-interview-2/

tylerw, Thursday, 5 May 2022 15:59 (two years ago) link

Excellent interview

chr1sb3singer, Thursday, 5 May 2022 16:16 (two years ago) link

Seconded!

Wile E. Is President (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 5 May 2022 16:26 (two years ago) link

Thirded! That was great!

Anyone have any idea why Daring Adventures doesn't appear to be streaming?

Les hommes de bonbons (cryptosicko), Thursday, 5 May 2022 16:28 (two years ago) link

Great read. Thanks Tyler!

birdistheword, Thursday, 5 May 2022 16:34 (two years ago) link

Beeswing so good, although maybe it goes bad at the end as he described.

Wile E. Is President (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 5 May 2022 16:35 (two years ago) link

Awesome.

Was Hitler a Hobbit? (Tom D.), Thursday, 5 May 2022 17:40 (two years ago) link

Great interview. I recently picked up the expanded version of Dudu Pukwana's first solo album from 1968 or so, which has a whole extra disc of outtakes that includes a session with Thompson playing guitar. I guess he knew that whole crew of South African musicians working in London at the time, they introduced him to township music. You can tell listening to it that he's a bit out of his element, mostly plays kind of ragged rhythm parts. Certainly not his best playing but fun to hear.

yeah that is a great record — though yeah, Richard is pretty subdued on it, might not know it was him if he wasn't in the credits. I think Joe Boyd was involved with the Blue Notes, later got Chris McGregor to play on Bryter Later.

tylerw, Thursday, 5 May 2022 22:23 (two years ago) link

Yeah, thanks for interview T--also came across this last spring:

I just came across this passage in a chronicle of South Africa's Blue Notes interacting with European musos:

Now Cape Town meets Canterbury. This 2020 reissue (Dudu Phukwana & The “Spears”) from the indispensable Matsuli Music contains two albums: Dudu’s S.A.-only 1968 solo debut, which gives this package its misspelled name, plus a recently discovered session. Both feature Pukwana, McGregor, Feza, and Maholo, more S.A. expats (bassist Harry Miller, trombonist Jonas Gwangwa) and future members of the great London-based Ghanaian Afro-funk band Osibisa. Yet the newly found Joe Boyd-produced sessions add Fairport Convention guitarists Richard Thompson and Simon Nicol for freewheelin’ cross-cultural wonder. Highly swinging horn- and guitar-heavy Afro-pop and kwela grooves shed more light on Pukwana’s melodic brightness and his ability to bridge continental gaps without sacrificing personality.
--From:
https://daily.bandcamp.com/lists/blue-notes-south-african-jazz-guide?utm_source=footer

― dow, Monday, April 12, 2021

dow, Friday, 6 May 2022 01:02 (two years ago) link


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