Isn't Richard Thompson a great guitarist?
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Album:Gold Dust: Live At The Royalty-The Final Concert
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I've just been listening to It'll Take Along Time, one of my favourite Sandy Denny songs. Sadly we lost Sandy in 1978, in a tragic accident falling downs stairs at her parent's home, but she left behind a great body of work. This is a lovely composition, with her sad and soulful voice soaring over the music, but it is made special by Richard Thompson's fantastic guitar playing. You can hardly say Richard Thompson was under rated as a guitarist, because I can remember journalists in the 70s describing him as the best in the world, and in August 2003, Rolling Stone magazine listed him as #19 on its list of The 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time. But you can say his playing never go the attention it should have. His own work has tended to focus on his great song writing, and his contribution to Fairport Convention was almost always as a key part of the ensemble, rather than taking stage front. On this song he takes some beautiful, fuzzed up solos, underpinned by Sneaky Pete Kleinow's pedal steel guitar. You should go and find this song on iTunes and shell out 79p or cents or whatever it is. The singing is superb, but in a sad song, the guitar will lift your heart.
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