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He has worked with experimental guitarist Henry Kaiser, most notably as part of the ad hoc grouping French Frith Kaiser Thompson with whom he recorded two albums.

Richard Thompson fell out with Rafferty during this project and was not happy with the finished product. A typical performance would start with a medieval round, progress via a Purcell aria, Victorian music hall and Hoagy Carmichael and end with Thompson's take on the Britney Spears hit " Oops! I remember being angry and saying to Ashley this isn't good enough, we've got to get some original material. But America is a strange country, one that’s never quite seemed to recover from the civil war, and I think we’re still feeling the repercussions of that today.Richard Thompson remains the standard bearer for this strand of contemporary popular music, the reviled folk-rock (ugh! In 2021 his book Beeswing: Losing my Way and Finding my Voice, 1967-1975 was published by Algonquin Books, mainly a memoir of his life as a musician from 1967 to 1975.

The Bunch were almost the reverse conceptually – a grouping of English folk rock musicians (including Sandy Denny, Linda Peters and members of Fairport Convention) recording a selection of classic rock and roll tunes. His virtuosity puts him in the same league as more celebrated axe heroes like Jimmy Page, and his breaks would not sound out of place on a Led Zeppelin album. Both the album and their live shows were well received by the American media, [36] [37] and Shoot Out the Lights effectively relaunched their career – just as their marriage was falling apart.The resulting album, First Light, was warmly received by critics [18] but did not sell particularly well. I remember saying to Ashley [ Hutchings, bassist] after a gig, that I was kind of embarrassed about doing the material we were doing, because it seemed that we should have outgrown doing covers – even though it was only 1967 – it somehow wasn't good enough and other bands were writing their own stuff and we should too. In 2014, Thompson released Acoustic Classics, [54] an album featuring acoustic renditions of 14 songs from his back catalogue, on his Beeswing label.

On the back of the insert booklet for this CD the sub-heading is "Unguents, Fig Leaves and Tourniquets for the Soul", which is an apt and suitably Thompsonesque description of the contents. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products.He played a solo which quotes from Django, from Charlie Christian, you know, an incredibly sophisticated little solo. Rememeber people, advanced resolution surround sound is not digital, so you must have the receiver set properly. and Thompson, with Linda now effectively his front woman, regrouped for his next album and the next phase of his career.