Carsten Pieper
A new album by one of the absolute master song-writers/guitarists hereby duely pre-ordered. Great to see this on Bandcamp. He's one of my absolute musical heroes!
Pinwheel
It's so reassuring to know there is still an accomplished musician out there who knows his craft and does it well; who knows how to play and still performs live. That's getting to be such a rare thing these days. Thanks for all the years of magnificent work. I can only hope that it's been as rewarding for you as it has for those of us in the audience.
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When Richard Thompson began writing songs for his latest album, Ship to Shore, the artist was instinctively drawn to his own musical roots, employing them in the service of fashioning a deep and diverse 12-track collection that pulls from various styles, genres and eras, but remains unmistakably Richard Thompson. There’s the rumbling, Motown-style rhythm that propels “Trust,” and the straightforward riff-rock of “Turnstile Casanova.” The drone-y “The Old Pack Mule,” an “old man’s song” that takes musical cues from 1600s-era European music, and “Life’s a Bloody Show,” an ode to “snake-oil salesmen and hucksters” that floats on a glammy, cabaret-like melody that’s “almost like a parody of a Noël Coward song, or something from Berlin in the 1920s,” Thompson says. “I liked the idea of having a strong base to work from and reaching out from there,” he says. “And I think of my base as being British traditional music, but there’s also Scottish music, there’s Irish music. There’s jazz and country and classical. As far as I’m concerned, once you establish your base you can reach out anywhere. It’ll still be you ringing through, wherever you decide to go musically.”
credits
releases May 31, 2024
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Produced by Richard Thompson
Engineered by Chris Bittner at Applehead Studio (Woodstock, NY)
Mastered by Chris Athens Masters (Austin, TX)
Photography: David Kaptein
Makeup: Lena Kaptein
Cover Art Illustration Generated & Designed by: Michael Dicken
Package Design: Tom Bejgrowicz for Manalive Creative
Management: Vector Management – Ken Levitan, Brad Oldham, and Mark Nesbitt
Legal Representation: Terri Baker, Esq.
Legal Support in Europe: Amanda Harcourt
Booking (NA/SA/Australia/Asia): High Road Touring – Frank Riley
Booking (Rest of World): United Talent Agency – Ross Warnock
Business Management: Fasbender & Associates Inc. – Tina Fasbender and Albion Demirxhiu
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Richard Thompson – guitars, mandolin, accordion
Michael Jerome – drums, percussion
Taras Prodaniuk – bass
Bobby Eichorn – acoustic and electric guitars
David Mansfield – fiddle
Zara Phillips – harmony vocals
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All songs written by Richard Thompson, administered by Kobalt Music Publishing America, Inc. (BMI)
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My thanks to all at Applehead Studios, Brad, Mark, Ken and all at Vector Management, Frank and all at High Road Touring, Neil and Ross and all at UTA
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John Drumbo French from Captain Beefheart and The Magic Band worked with Thompson on two albums along with Fred Frith and Henry Kaiser.
Those two French, Frith, Kaiser and Thompson albums led me to this.
Also, Richard Thompson taught Hugh Cornwell (of The Stranglers) how to play the bass guitar in a band when they were both at the same school (Emil and The Detectives?).
With a career spanning 50 years and playing with two of my heroes (French and Cornwell) Thompson has produced a fascinating EP. yellowcakeuf6
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There's a similarity in song writing between Richard Thompson and Hugh Cornwell which maybe isn't surprising as they went to the same school at the same time, although Thompson is older.
Due to Thompson's association with John French of Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band I searched for his work on the Bandcamp app. French, Thompson and Cornwell all have albums on the app which I'm very pleased about. Only Thompson has released contemporary albums, much to his credit. yellowcakeuf6
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This is my favourite song from the original album; when I listened to both side-by-side I was blown away by how much better the little changes in mixing here make an already classic song! declawedboys
Adapting their calculated standards into a raw, live setting, the radical UK folk duo rework six highlights from their spellbindincatalogue. Bandcamp New & Notable Dec 7, 2022