Rerelease French,
Frith, Kaiser, Thompson
OUT NOW
NEW: FLEDG'LING
RECORDS has brought Live,
Love, Larf & Loaf back to the
market. The album was first released in 1987 as the result of an
unusual but wonderful collaboration between four
master musicians with an interest in experiments:
John FRENCH
Fred FRITH
Henry KAISER
Richard THOMPSON
Richard Thompson once joked that if his presence on an album with
John French, Fred Frith and Henry Kaiser was expected to help it
appeal to a wider audience, it didn't say much for the state of
their careers.
* Newly remastered
* Digipac using all artwork
* Four unreleased tracks,
being:
- Night Comes In
- Invisible Means
- Quick Sign /Suzanne
- Madness Of Love
Recorded live at the Ashkenaz, Berkeley.
FAN COMMENT: What's strange about the bonus tracks is that they
were recorded in 1990, when FFKT did
one gig while they were in Berkeley recording
Invisible
Means But LLL&L was recorded in 1987
and they actually
had undertaken a micro-tour at that time, playing 3 sets in
2 venues on a Friday and a Sunday. So where are those tracks?
COMPILER's COMMENT:
Well I guess you can't please all the people all the time...
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ALIVE AND WELL
IN YOUR TOWN
RT:
It's creative and artistic and all that, but also it is a
job, and a job is a job is a job. I have to work to pay the
mortgage and get the kids through school. It's not really
a job you retire from, is it? I could see working less, but
I'd love to still be dragged out for a folk festival or two
at age 90.
CONFIRMED
CONCERT
DATES
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Nelly takes
Britney's slot
NEW: NELLY
FURTADO's classic Man
Eater seems
to have taken over Britney's OOPS! I Did It Again in Richard
Thompson latest
run of 1000 Years Of Popular Music shows.
Thompson has explained this by saying he didn't want to trouble
mrs Spears more than necessary.
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The Songwriter's Songwriter
NEW: All of RICHARD
THOMPSON
on YouTube in one group HERE
RT:"The great thing about YouTube
is - they can't shut it down, Wonderful for political stuff. The bad
thing about it is - they can't shut it down. All that freedom of information
is good up to a point, and if you're a music fan, it's a treat to see
a bunch of stuff that might otherwise be obscure...but it does cut
into the livelihood of musicians. Everyone who wants to see Across
a Crowded Room, for instance, has probably already seen it, so there's
less point in commercially releasing it. Universal shouldn't have kept
it deleted for so long, of course, but they are a huge company, and
don't notice everything in the catalogue".
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Sweet welcome for
THE WARRIOR
NEW: Positive
reviews as far as the eye can see for Sweet Warrior,
Richard's new album.
RT's own advice: "This is NOT a Julie Andrews
record".
1. SWEET
WARRIOR
latest band CD
TRACK LIST:
1. Needle And Thread
2. I’ll Never Give It Up
3. Take Care The Road You Choose
4. Mr. Stupid
5. Dad’s Gonna Kill Me
6. Poppy-Red
7. Bad Monkey
8. Francesca
9. Too Late To Come Fishing
10. Sneaky Boy
11. She Sang Angels To Rest
12. Johnny's Far Away
13. Guns Are The Tongues
14. Sunset Song
Via i-Tunes in selected countries the album is delivered with two bonus tracks:
Dust and Wine
Any Old Body
RT: "It's kind of a war record,
not just political war but also domestic war or relationship
war. There's a sweetness to it as well". (AP)
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NEW: Always
fancied to play guitar like Richard Thompson? First step could
be checking out Lowden Guitars in Downpatrick, Northern Ireland
and order a Richard
Thompson signature model. It's how George Lowden
and his people say thank you for using Lowden to RT while Richard
chose the wood combination and other specifications to provide
the guitar sound he really likes.
LOWDEN
RT model
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RICHARD
THOMPSON is photographed with his Lowden model
in the Spring 2008 issue of The Fretboard JOURNAL and saying:"Well,
you know, it's taken a while. We've been going backwards
and forwards for a couple of years about doing a signature
model. George Lowden was saying: "What do you want it to
sound like?" I said: "Well, I don't really know. Let me
try out some Lowdens. I've been to the factory a couple
of times; I've met George at some NAMM shows. We've played
through things a couple of times. He had a zircote guitar
that I thought sounded really well and really suited my
style. And I said: How about this as an idea?" And he said:"Fine,
why don't we do a few little design modifications on it".
And it turned out great.
Q: What tweaks did you make to it?
RT: "I think things like neck length and width are pretty
standard. It's got little zircote veneers on the front
and back of the headstock. It has a really nice, I forget
what it is, pear wood on the binding, which is really
pretty. It has some unusual wood combinations that work
very well. It's a basic Lowden, it's voiced in a standard
Lowden way and it sounds really good".
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Richard Thompson
on your
coffee table
The new Fretboard
Journal contains a cover story on
Richard Thompson: Musings of a Master. Included
are great
up-close photographs of his Fender Stratocaster, his green Ferrington
and custom black Ferrington, already used in 1982.
The conversation
has been written by Allen
St. John, author of Clapton's
Guitar.
Fretboard Journal is published in the
USA and distributed to the big bookstore chains, guitar stores,
and some newsstands.
It’s a coffee table style magazine for guitar, mandolin
and banjo enthusiasts.
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First official release 1975 RICHARD & LINDA THOMPSON
NEW: RICHARD THOMPSON has
blessed compiling and releasing RICHARD & LINDA THOMPSON ... In Concert,
November 1975, out on Island Records. But his official
web site hastens to repeat Our Man has not been involved in any decisions
regarding the "nostalgic" outing. So most of the work must have been
done by senior-compiler David
Suff, who says: "We've kept to the order of the set lists from
1975 and chosen the best performances from three nights".
Tracklist:
1 I Want To See The Bright Lights Tonight
2 Hard Luck Stories
3 Night Comes In
4 Morris Medley: Old Woman Tossed Up In A Blanket/ Shepherd's Hey/ Bean Setting/
Shooting
5 A Heart Needs A Home
6 Why Don't You Love Me
7 Now Be Thankful
8 Jet Plane In A Rocking Chair
9 Streets Of Paradise
10 For Shame Of Doing Wrong
11 Calvary Cross
12 Hokey Pokey (The Ice Cream Song)
13 Things You Gave Me
14 It'll Be Me
15 Together Again
Linda
Thompson: vocals
Richard Thompson: guitar, vocals
John Kirkpatrick:
anglo concertina, accordion, vocals
Dave Mattacks:
drums
Dave
Pegg: bass
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Research and co-ordination: David Suff and Tim Chacksfield
For Universal: Joe Black
No decisions: Richard Thompson
Recorded in November 1975 at Oxford, Swindon and Norwich by John
Wood
Assistant engineers on the Island Mobile: Dave Hutchins and Barry Sage(?)
Mixed at Audio Archiving, London during February & March 2007 by Paschal
Bryne
Mastered by Denis Blackham at Skye Mastering
Photography: Robert Ellis
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Alternate mixes of track 11 and 14 were
previously released on
Guitar,
vocal (1976)
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