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In the pantheon of British guitarists, Richard Thompson ranks right up there with Eric Clapton and Jimmy Page. As a songwriter, his tunes have been recorded by artists as diverse as Bonnie Raitt,...
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Guitar legend Richard Thompson takes requests (News)
L.A. Acoustic Music Fest Announced for June 6-7
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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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Richard Thompson 101 (sort of)
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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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New Richard Thompson: ??Sweet Warrior??
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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 Thompson - Walking On A Wire 1968-2009
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It's hard to conceive of an artist warranting a four-disc retrospective when they've had no certifiable hits but such is the case when you're one of rock'n'roll's true cult heroes. Although Richard Thompson is widely acknowledged as one of the finest songwriters and guitarists of his generation, the unique traits...
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Richard Thompson: Walking on a Wire: Richard Thompson (1968-2009) (Review)
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It took long enough, but there's finally a great way to sample Richard Thompson's long and prolific career.
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NEW: RICHARD THOMPSON Live Warrior - Hear "Dad's Gonna Kill Me"
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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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Unfortunate Animal Encounters of the Musical Stars
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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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Richard Thompson shows us how it's done
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here's another song for guitar lovers:
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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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Where do I sign up?
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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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Staying on a topical theme
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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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The Veil Between the Worlds is Thin Tonight & There're Ghosts in the Wind
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Happy Hallowe'en everybody! (& inrum, my veil is thin too - hubba hubba) Being an impoverished little witch, I cannot buy the song I want to play tonight, so I was quite tickled to find it in this great video from PolitelyHomicidal: And just for contrast, here's a snap of chez moi, a house with 100 years of memories ... but no ghosts:
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MOG it up!
OMG! Nobody loves me any more!
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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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