1997
Search results
6 days ago · Ship to Shore sounds at times like a greatest hits release. Even more than Fairport Convention in its imperial phase, the interplay between Thompson’s guitars and those of Bobby Eichorn recalls ...
May 11, 2024 · Richard Thompson – Ship to Shore LP. by talkfromtherockroom | May 11, 2024 | 0 comments. Richard Thompson has been hammering and nailing together a sturdy and diverse musical career for almost sixty years. A scholar of song and collector of disparate melody, Thompson’s expansive musical journey started in the 1960’s with Fairport ...
May 8, 2024 · Ship To Shore is Thompson’s 20th solo album, not counting his time with Fairport Convention in the late ‘60s, a run of startling and incomparably moving albums with ex-wife Linda Thompson in the ‘70s and early ‘80s, two albums with French, Frith, Kaiser, & Thompson in 1987 and 1990, respectively. Now in his sixth decade of music-making ...
May 10, 2024 · For an artist with the kind of deep back catalogue that Richard Thompson can boast, the anniversaries seem to come around thick and fast. 2024 marks the 55th of Fairport Convention’s ‘Liege And Lief’, still widely recognised as one of the all-time essential folk-rock albums and a ground-breaking landmark musically too; it is also the 50th ...
4 days ago · That is a good shout, for Ship To Shore is not the sound of an artist in any sort of decline, quite the opposite; the Richard Thompson of 2024 is a singer-songwriter enjoying the most vital of late golden periods, producing work to stand favourably alongside any from his previous fifty years. Richard Thompson’s Ship To Shore is out on 25th ...
Apr 30, 2024 · April 30, 2024. By. Paul Sexton. Richard & Linda Thompson 'I Want To See The Bright Lights Tonight' artwork - Courtesy: UMG. The 21st century has seen a welcome upswing in appreciation of...
May 1, 2024 · 1 May 2024. Revisiting Richard and Linda Thompson’s folk-rock masterpiece. Fifty years on, I Want to See the Bright Lights Tonight retains a spartan beauty – and a feeling of power in reserve. By David Hepworth. Photo by Andy Horvitch.
