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1 day ago · Although it’s been six years since Richard Thompson’s last album—2018’s 13 Rivers—the 12 songs on his new effort Ship To Shore (New West Records) illustrate that he’s lost no ground. The album kicks off with the swirling guitars and driving rhythms of “Freeze,” a Celtic-African number that conveys the raggedness of indecision ...
2 days ago · Ship to Shore is Richard’s 20 th solo album and first since the 2018’s acclaimed 13 Rivers . Six years is a long time to wait by anybody’s reckoning but when talking about an artist as normally prolific as Richard Thompson, such a period seems like an eternity. There is a reason for the delay, of course: “COVID kind of halted everything ...
1 day ago · With certainly nothing to prove, Thompson sallies forth six years later with Ship to Shore, reinforcing that point of view through its twelve songs, which, in Thompson’s own words, traverse traditional British, Scottish, and Irish music as well as jazz, country, and classical. You’d be very hard-pressed to find another artist of his ilk.
Oct 26, 2019 · Richard Thompson: The Thinking Man’s Guitar Hero. Scott Metzger. October 26, 2019. Get inside the style of folk-rock’s most influential 6-stringer. Chops: Intermediate. Theory: Intermediate. Lesson Overview: • Understand the essential elements of Thompson’s distinctive playing. • Create Irish-influenced licks that work over rock grooves.
Richard thompson is a singer-songwriter and guitar player, who’s work is praised by the press through the years, for both his compositions as his guitar playing. He was nominated for major...
May 15, 2024 · Even more than Fairport Convention in its imperial phase, the interplay between Thompson’s guitars and those of Bobby Eichorn recalls the 1980s heyday of the former’s solo career.
Ship To Shore. ★★★★. NEW WEST. Spidering his way into the bleakest corner of his first album in six years, Richard Thompson sees through the eyes of a soldier struggling with PTSD on the quietly crushing The Fear Never Leaves You. “Numb is heaven, oblivion wealth,” sings the 75-year-old master of the dark arts in his customary ...
