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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Richard Thompson's new album, Sweet Warrior, is out in May, and it's a beauty. Playing it through a few times today got me to thinking about one of his songs from a few years back, a little-known tune 'Dear Janet Jackson', which he wrote and performed just a couple of days after the notorious Superbowl incident of 2004.************************
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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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{To anyone who tried to play the clip and got the Chipmunks - sorry. It's fixed.}Richard Thompson has a reputation as a bit of a purveyor of doom'n'gloom.And there's lot in his songs, to be sure.But the man also possesses one of the most bizarre senses of humour around, when he chooses to let it out of its cage.*WARNING:* The Following Is *NOT* Safe for Work!!{Unless you work at the studio tha...
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*Jameson* has done "*a post about Maxim magazine 'reviewing' the new Black Crowes album without actually hearing it*":http://mog.com/jameson/blog_post/145978.The following is (eesntially) a comment that i wrote to that post, afterwards deciding that it was of sufficient general musical interest that i thought i ought to expose the membership in general to it. (Sort of like exposing the members...
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(MOG seems to have eaten my homework again, so if this comes through to you as a duplicate post, i'm sorry...)On the "*Audio Downloads page*":http://www.richardthompson-music.com/audiodownloads.asp on "*Richard Thompson’s website*":http://www.richardthompson-music.com/, i found a little gem entitled "*I Agree with Pat Metheney*":http://www.richardthompson-music.com/audio/I_Agree_With_Pat_Methen.
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It'd be easy to ignore another record by Richard Thompson, because he's so dependably excellent. That would be a mistake though, because no one is better at what he does, a sort of celtic-based but kitchen sink-influenced brand of passionate folk rock...as bitterly sardonic as anything you'll hear. Thompson has a new album called "Sweet Warrior" out, and it's a real sleeper. Here's one of th...
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I'm just over the moon about this: I haven't heard How Will I Ever Be Simple Again for almost 20 years - the lost love (he of the Gibson) taught me this song and I later used to sing it to my children. It suddenly made a guest appearance in my mind yesterday, so I finally really looked around while choosing albums to add to my buy-list. And here we go, not only the superlative Richard Thomp...
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Check out "Dad's Gonna Kill Me" off Richard Thompson's Sweet Warrior.
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*Current National TerrorAlert Level*Some cover versions are just lifeless note-for-note "human jukebox" re-creations of the original.Some apply something of the cover band's personality to the song.And some seem to virtually re-imagine the song as something completely different.Cases in point: Two Richard Thompson songs.This is a live performance by Richard & Linda of "*Night Comes In*":http:...
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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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