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Album Review: Electric - Richard Thompson
Wellington :: New Zealand | 3 months ago
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Richard Thompson (Southboubnd) In typical Richard Thompson fashion, his 40-something album continues to define the British folk-landscape, which he has been redefining for more than 40 years. He's one of those sadly under-appreciated artists who
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Richard Thompson: Electric – review
London :: United Kingdom | 3 months ago
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The title of Richard Thompson 's 22nd post- Fairport Convention album succinctly relays the folk-rock guitar hero's current mode: plugged in. Specifically, Thompson plugged in at the Nashville home studio of Robert Plant producer Buddy Miller, who
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Richard Thompson: The Cream Interview
London :: United Kingdom | 3 months ago
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It was perhaps an unusual honor for an English songwriter, singer and guitarist steeped in the folk music of the British Isles. I knew that Thompson had begun his career in the English folk-rock group Fairport Convention, and that Fairport had done
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Album review: Anais Mitchell & Jefferson Hamer, Child Ballads (Wilderland)
London :: United Kingdom | 3 months ago
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The folk songs collated in the 19th century by Sir Francis James Child are the taproot of transcontinental folk culture: a treasure-house of tales for performers from Martin Carthy to Bob Dylan, and a more recent influence on nu-folkies like The
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Kala Ghoda fest: Folk front!
London :: United Kingdom | 3 months ago
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With a focus on folk music in South Asia and the UK, by curating more collaborations between artistes and extensive tours, the British Council has announced an ambitious three-year programme called Folk Nations. The inaugural of this project will be
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Produced in Nashville by Buddy Miller, Richard Thompson's latest is a tale of marriage and its discontents
Nashville :: ME :: USA | 4 months ago
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Richard Thompson's Electric out now via New West Although some of Richard Thompson's best records have been collaborations you may remember Live, Love, Larf & Loaf , his 1987 full-length with Captain Beefheart drummer John French and avant-garde
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The Underground Brings In Folk Music Star
Fayetteville :: NC :: USA | 4 months ago
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Art, Movies, Lit, Theater Staff Report With GoodFolk Productions of Fayetteville closed, members of the artist community at the Fayetteville Underground saw an opportunity to continue the folk music legacy in their artist showroom. Bill Flanagan of
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Michael Giltz: Music: Richard Thompson's Electrifying New Tour And Album
New York City :: NY :: USA | 4 months ago
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Two factors make it likely that Richard Thompson's current tour will deliver some of the best live shows of his career. (That's saying something since Thompson is widely acclaimed as one of the best guitarists and one of the best songwriters of all
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Port Isaac's Fisherman's Friends and Show of Hands – review
London :: United Kingdom | 4 months ago
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It is impossible to begrudge Fisherman's Friends their commercial success, simply because they have such a remarkable story. A 10-man group of fishermen, builders or farmers from a village on the north Cornish coast, who sang shanties down by the
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Album Review: Richard Thompson, 'Electric'
Los Angeles :: CA :: USA | 4 months ago
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Stories Pamela Littky/New West Records Celtic music has many charms, but funk isn't one of them...But when it comes to bass and beats, the sound tends to be sharp and stark, not hot and meaty...On the latest solo CD from Richard Thompson , he
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