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Thompson's songs have been extensively covered; for example, Dimming of the Day has been performed by artists such as The Neville Brothers, Bonnie Raitt, Emmylou Harris, David Gilmour, The Blind Boys of Alabama, June Tabor, The Corrs and Alison Krauss and Union Station. There have been several tribute compilations of other artists' interpretations of his work, including: Capitol's Beat the Retreat: Songs by Richard Thompson and Green Linnet's The World Is a Wonderful Place: The Songs of Richard Thompson, both released in 1994. Martyn said the song was “done for a friend of mine, and it was done right, with very clear motives”. Triangulating between murmuring empathy, frustration and foreboding, he divines not only Drake’s quietly devastating emptiness, but the maddening impossibility of reaching him. There are declarations of unconditional love and solidarity, and the solemn promise to “follow you anywhere”, wherever it might lead. The Thompsons recorded two more albums— Hokey Pokey and Pour Down Like Silver, both released in 1975—before Richard Thompson decided to leave the music business. The couple moved to a Sufi community in East Anglia. MacDonald, Keza; Beaumont-Thomas, Ben; Snapes, Laura; Mumford, Gwilym (24 June 2023). "Saturday at Glastonbury 2023: Guns N' Roses, Lizzo, the Pretenders – follow it live!". The Guardian . Retrieved 23 June 2023. In 2006 and 2013, Thompson recorded Hugh S. Roberton's " Mingulay Boat Song" and the traditional "General Taylor" for the sea shanty-compilations Rogue's Gallery: Pirate Ballads, Sea Songs, and Chanteys and Son of Rogues Gallery: Pirate Ballads, Sea Songs & Chanteys. [68] [69]

Richard Thompson OBE - Graduation - The University of Aberdeen". Abdn.ac.uk . Retrieved 14 September 2018. The resulting album, First Light, was warmly received by critics [18] but did not sell particularly well. Neither did its follow up, 1979's harder-edged and more cynical Sunnyvista. Chrysalis Records did not take up their option to renew the contract, and the Thompsons found themselves without one. The songs he “wrote for Linda,” he says, “are precious to me”. They include some of the most touching songs ever committed to record, such as Dimming of the Day/Dargai, a clarion call to tumultuous love (also covered by Alison Krauss, Tom Jones and the Corrs), and Withered and Died, a song that feels steeped in centuries of heartache (memorably covered by Elvis Costello). Islam is like a grid for him that he sits upon each day. It stopped him drinking, gave him peace. Thompson noticed the van, travelling at 70mph, suddenly veering towards the motorway’s central reservation. In those days there were no crash barriers. He turned his head to Bramham – his eyes were closed. Thompson grabbed the wheel to avoid hitting a pole. The van came off the road. Himes, Geoffrey (7 August 1991). "THOMPSON: GLOOM A GRIN". Washington Post . Retrieved 10 May 2016.It was not apparent from their records at first, but the Thompsons had embraced an esoteric Sufi strand of Islam in early 1974. [27] I Want to See the Bright Lights Tonight was recorded before this conversion, but released some time afterwards. The songs for the second Richard and Linda album, Hokey Pokey, were similarly written some time ahead of the album's recording and eventual release. It was Pour Down Like Silver, with its cover photo of a turbaned Richard Thompson, that tipped the public off to the Thompsons' growing preoccupation with their faith. Thompson appeared on his ex-wife Linda's studio album Fashionably Late on the song "Dear Mary". [47] It was the first time the two had recorded together since Shoot Out the Lights.

Time Will Show the Wiser" ( Emitt Rhodes)– this recording was included on Fairport Convention's first album.– 3:03 Lionel Richie scores first British No 1 in 23 years". The Independent. 6 July 2015 . Retrieved 8 January 2020. Match made in hell: Linda Thompson and her husband created British". Independent.co.uk. 2 September 2007 . Retrieved 14 September 2018. Thompson's eighteenth studio album, 13 Rivers, was released on 14 September 2018. Thompson produced the record himself at Boulevard Recording in Los Angeles. [62] On 30 September 2019 Thompson played at the Royal Albert Hall to celebrate his 70th birthday. [5] 2020s [ edit ]

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note: While the SHM-CD format may or may not actually improve the sound, this is the first Island Records cd remastering of (guitar, vocal); mastering engineer: Hitsohi Takiguchi at Universal Mastering Studios. Richard Thompson & David Byrne - 24 March 1992: New York". Archived from the original on 19 April 2015 . Retrieved 19 April 2015.

Leggett, Steve. "Various Artists - Son of Rogues Gallery: Pirate Ballads, Sea Songs & Chanteys". AllMusic . Retrieved 10 December 2019. Jurek, Thom. "Various Artists - Rogue's Gallery: Pirate Ballads, Sea Songs, & Chanteys". AllMusic . Retrieved 10 December 2019. Thomas and his brother or possibly son William, both of Winsbury in Shropshire, were given protection for being in Scotland in November 1336 [see 'Calendar of Documents relating to Scotland'; Vol.5, no.3538, p.505(Supplementary; Public Records Office, Ed. Grant Simpson & James Galbraith; available online]. Winsbury is a small township of 1 square mile just to the west of Chirbury. It was the base of the Winsbury family in the 13th and 14th centuries.[See R W Eyton 'Antiquities of Shropshire'; Vol. XI. pp. 167-172. Available online.] Thomas was a mid-level official in the service of Shropshire and the English central authorities. [For an example see Calendar of Fine Rolls 1331 p.290 & 1333, p.374]. There seem to be only one place named Winsbury. Thomas and William of Winsbury were in Scotland when these popular ballads were being composed. If there is a connection the exiled king would have been David II who was in France from 1333 to 1341, however he had no children at all. When we speak, he’s midway through recording the audiobook, and recently had to read the chapter about that May morning. He speaks softly. “We never mourned properly. There wasn’t the language then to describe those feelings. I’m still learning.”Gerry Rafferty had booked the Thompsons as the support act for his 1980 tour, and had also used Richard as a session player on his Night Owl album. Rafferty offered to finance the recording of a new Richard and Linda Thompson album which he would then use to secure a contract for the Thompsons. [31] Richard Thompson fell out with Rafferty during this project and was not happy with the finished product. [32] Nevertheless, Rafferty kept his side of the bargain and presented the album to several record companies – none of which expressed interest in signing the Thompsons. Rafferty did not recover his investment. [33] saw the release of Thompson's first album for Capitol, Amnesia. Froom was retained as producer, and once again the album was recorded in Los Angeles with many of the same players that Froom had called upon for the Daring Adventures sessions. The song "Farewell, Farewell", recorded by Fairport Convention on their album Liege and Lief in 1969, is an adaptation featuring new lyrics by Richard Thompson. A recording of "Willie O' Winsbury" played and sung by Thompson was included in the 2006 boxset RT - The Life and Music of Richard Thompson. Thompson did not expect to sell many copies of Front Parlour Ballads. The critics, as usual, acclaimed the new release, but rather more surprising were strong early sales in both the U.S. and Britain, and Front Parlour Ballads debuted in the indie charts on both sides of the Atlantic.

Posthumously, Drake has been almost deified, artfully moulded into the platonic ideal of a tortured artist, a beautiful young man too sensitive for the cut and thrust of the music industry or, indeed, the modern world in general. Some of that is true, and some of it is a feat of retrospective branding which has little romanticism about it. The resurrection of Drake in the 1990s as the quintessential cult artist was driven by a hard-headed marketing decision by PolyGram. Having bought Island Records, the company were keen to recoup losses on artists who had never sold any records. Since the early 1990s, Thompson has made prominent use of Lowden acoustic guitars for studio and live work; Lowden have made a signature model for him. Before this he used a Martin 000-18 as well as instruments built by Danny Ferrington. Boilen, Bob (17 July 2018). "Richard Thompson Tears It Up on Two New Songs". NPR.org . Retrieved 17 July 2018.There were less lofty connections. “They did mountains of drugs together,” says Linda Thompson. There is also the suspicion that, however superficial, Drake’s artfully faded officer-class credentials appealed to Martyn, who was not averse to concocting a heavily mythologised personal biography, in much the same way that Bob Dylan had a few years previously. Thompson is joined by his daughter Kami, son Teddy and ex-wife Linda at his 70th birthday show at London’s Royal Albert Hall, 2019. Photograph: Gus Stewart/Redferns