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Jun 27, 2024 · Richard Thompson, the British singer-songwriter-guitarist who has been writing and recording music since the '60s, is about to launch a summer concert tour and has a new album out.
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- Pour Down Like Silver (1975) In a single potent stroke, 1975's Pour Down Like Silver distills all of the romance, comedy, terror, devotion, and lust which, taken together, comprise Thompson's brilliantly singular genius.
- I Want To See The Bright Lights Tonight (1974) Leading up to 1974's landmark I Want To See The Bright Lights Tonight, Richard Thompson had long been striving to co-mingle his dueling impulses toward adventurous rock and traditional folk.
- Shoot Out The Lights (1982) Recorded amidst a period of intense personal and professional turmoil, the final Richard and Linda Thompson album is a wrenching document of fraying domesticity and dashed artistic dreams.
- Hokey Pokey (1975) The second in a triumphal three-record run of masterpieces released between 1974 - 1975, Hokey Pokey finds Richard and Linda firing on all cylinders over the course of an ebullient, tragicomic set of debauched character studies and soaring spiritual ruminations.
- Soundtracks
- With Fairport Convention
- Collaborations
- Original Recordings For Compilations
- As A Guest Or Session Musician
Not listed here are soundtrack albums on which a Richard Thompson recording or composition is merely included, without further involvement from Thompson. Listed here are soundtracks in which Thompson was involved in the actual recording. In 2009 "Time to Ring Some Changes" from Hard Cash was included in Topic Records' 70-year anniversary boxed set ...
Only albums recorded whilst Richard Thompson was a member of Fairport Convention are listed here. After Thompson left the group, he continued to appear sporadically as a guest musician on subsequent albums, which are listed in the session work discography. For more details of Fairport Convention's album releases see Fairport Convention discography
Albums on which Thompson has guested or worked as a session musician are not shown here (see next section). Listed here are albums on which Thompson played a significant creative role in the group or on the recording.
Original recordings of new or existing compositions on 'various artist' compilations. Only the first release the recording is on is listed.
† Thompson played on an 'album of mostly unreleased 1969 recordings' that were released in 2020 packaged with the group's 1968 self-titled debut.‡ A compilation of previously unreleased tracks recorded between 1967 and 1974.⸸ Thompson plays on some radio sessions from 1972※ Recorded live in 1991
Jun 27, 2024 · Richard Thompson, the British singer-songwriter-guitarist who has been writing and recording music since the '60s, is about to launch a summer concert tour and has a new album out.
May 30, 2024 · One of rock's undersung triple threats, Richard Thompson has changed folk and rock forever thanks to his gobsmacking guitar playing, keen storytelling and evocative voice. Ahead of new album 'Ship to Shore,' here are 10 essential tracks.
Apr 3, 2024 · Thompson remembers going to the infamous 14-Hour Technicolour Dream at Alexandra Palace in April 1967, when he was 17, and having his mind blown by Pink Floyd, Soft Machine, Pretty Things and more. Within two years he had helped blow some minds of his own.
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Richard Thompson OBE (born 3 April 1949) is an English singer, songwriter, and guitarist. Thompson first gained prominence in the late 1960s as the lead guitarist and songwriter for the folk rock group Fairport Convention, which he had co-founded in 1967.
