MUSIC NEWS - The L.A. Acoustic Music Festival will make its debut?June 6 & 7, 2009 on the Santa Monica Pier in Santa Monica, CA. The two-day event,? takes place during the Pier’s 100th Anniversary year, and will benefit the California Acoustic Music Project (CAMP ).??CAMP provides artists-in-residence to schools on a salaried, ongoing basis through the curriculum of the Americana Project to...
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So, Richard Thompson has a new album out, called Sweet Warrior. Thompson has been around playing and writing music since before the days of the Vietnam war, so you can bet there's an anti-war tune on this record. Here's the thing...this man is a genuis musician...by his peers he's considered one of the most accomplished guitarists...evah. He played with Nick Drake and was a founding member of ...
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On May 29, "Shout! Factory":SF will release Richard Thompson's ??Sweet Warrior??. The Album is his first work of all-new material since 2005’s ??Front Parlour Ballads?? (Cooking Vinyl) and his first electric disc since 2003’s ??The Old Kit Bag?? (Beeswing). Thompson was first recorded in 1967. Although most his work has maintained critical acclaim, he has yet to become a household name - with ...
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Richard ThompsonLive Warrior (2009) From Thompson's recent tour in support of 2007's Sweet Warrior, an internet only live release spotlighting Thompson's tight, four piece set up (with Michael Jerome, Danny Thompson & Pete Zorn). Not quite as brilliant as his live release from the Mock Tudor tour (Semi Detached Mock Tudor), but that was 10 years ago already and this is outstanding nonetheless. ...
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Seems there's definitely a bug at the WFMU lunch table, but even before Ryan Seacrest's self-inflicted shark wound, I'd been worried about the increasing regularity with which the beasts have been attacking the celebs. Musicians, mostly. I mean that's who I'm worried about. It started in April, when I learned of Richard Thompson's run-in with a scorpion in Mexico. Here's 5 amazing true-lif...
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here's another song for guitar lovers:
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Sometimes she sneaks up on you. It doesn't matter how many years have gone by or how many others you've placed between the two of you. Change your wardrobe, change your address, change your mind — most of the time, it works. But every now and then, out of nowhere, she comes back. Perhaps it's an old song, perhaps it's a similar face in a car going the other direction as you're driving home. Wha...
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I'm really excited! One of my all-time favourite artists, Richard Thompson, is playing at Amoeba records in Hollywood tomorrow.To be honest, I'm not quite sold on his new album. But this man has such an amazing, solid body of work behind him, and I like so much of it, that I'm willing to accept that we might finally be drifting in seperate directions. I guess this stuff doesn't appeal to everyo...
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With the US government bailing out failed financial institutions left and right, I was wondering if perhaps I could apply for a bail out for myself.
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given the Inauguration and change of Presidential Party taking place on Tuesday, but perhaps moving slightly away from the type of music I tend to post here, tonight's first artist is a Muslim convert (don't even think about it), who first enjoyed fame as a member of Fairport Convention.His talent remains undisputed, but whether he is a likeable human being remains somewhat debatable. Still, he...
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I just looked, and i'm not even in the Top 50 MOGgies anymore!Augggh!I fell out of the Top 1000 on Amazon sometime early this year, and now this humiliation...
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Ah the eldritch horror of it! Madame Sophia tells us of the looming disaster that awaits!
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| 2 1952 Vincent Black Lightning |
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| 3 Dry My Tears and Move On |
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| 4 A Love You Can't Survive |
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| 5 Two-Faced Love |
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