Richard Thompson

O man I just listened to that 52 Vincent.

I have to post these  as well:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8M799A4H … plpp_video

Who is that bass player...ridiculous....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKmsdP7c … plpp_video

Straight to the heart of this one

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1o8M74uf … TO1gGS26lQ

Bonnie Raitt, it couldn't possibly get any better

Yeah, I am a fan of Richard Thompson and hope to see him one day here in New York.

Hi Jack

Im from Dudley, England

Yow cor beat the black country mate )

Album release: Electric by Richard Thompson
Release date: 11 February 2012
Label: Proper
Accompanied by major UK tour starting 20 February 2013

Declared by Rolling Stone as one of the top guitarists of all time, and considered one of the UK’s most outstanding songwriters, musician Richard Thompson returns with a brand new, guitar driven record, Electric, for Proper Records on 11 February 2013. Richard’s Electric Trio will also be taking to the road for a major UK tour on 20 February 2013 and will tour the USA from March. Full tour details for the UK are below. 

Tickets are on sale in the UK starting 10am Friday, Nov. 9, 2012.
Tour dates
Wed 20 Feb CARDIFF St David’s Hall
Thu 21 Feb BIRMINGHAM Symphony Hall
Fri 22 Feb BRIGHTON Dome
Sat 23 Feb BRISTOL Colston Hall
Sun 24 Feb CAMBRIDGE Corn Exchange
Mon 25 Feb LONDON O2 Shepherd’s Bush Empire
Thu 28 Feb EDINBURGH Usher Hall
Fri 1 Mar LIVERPOOL Philharmonic Hall
Sat 2 Mar SHEFFIELD City Hall
Sun 3 Mar GATESHEAD The Sage Gateshead
Wed 6 Mar NOTTINGHAM Royal Concert Hall
Thu 7 Mar BEXHILL DE La Warr Pavilion
Fri 8 Mar BASINGSTOKE Anvil
Sun 10 March SALFORD The Lowry

For ticket links please see Richard Thompson's official site.

More about the new record. After taking the bold step of recording his last album of new songs live, when it came to recording Electric, Thompson turned to Buddy Miller (Robert Plant’s Band Of Joy, Solomon Burke, Emmylou Harris, Patty Griffin) to produce, recording at Miller’s home studio in Nashville, TN. Miller who himself is renowned for his guitar skills recently told Rolling Stone: "I played along on the record, playing rhythm guitar for him, and I got a two-week guitar lesson while he camped out in my house." The record was recorded as an electric trio with Thompson, drummer Michael Jerome and bassist Taras Prodaniuk, who both sing background vocals. Jerome and Prodaniuk formed part of the band which recorded and toured the UK Top Twenty album Dream Attic, released in August 2010.
They make up the trio, with Thompson, on his forthcoming UK dates, his first extensive tour in two years.
Guests on Electric include the legendary Alison Krauss who joins Thompson on The Snow Goose, while English singer-songwriter Siobhan Maher Kennedy (formerly with River City People and now resident in Nashville) adds vocals on several tracks as well. Fiddle great Stuart Duncan also plays on the record; one of America’s leading bluegrass musicians he played on recent albums by Robert Plant/Alison Krauss and Elvis Costello and will be familiar in the UK from BBC4’s Transatlantic Sessions.
Richard Thompson himself commented that: “We did it ridiculously quickly. But it sounds great. It turned out surprisingly funky, sort of a new genre - folk-funk. It's quite snappy, somewhere between Judy Collins and Bootsy Collins.”
Electric will be released as a Standard CD, Deluxe two–disc set and on 180 gram vinyl.

About Richard Thompson. Recipient of a BBC Lifetime Achievement Award, Mojo’s Les Paul Award and curator of the prestigious Meltdown Festival at the
Southbank in 2010, Thompson was most recently honoured with a Lifetime Achievement Award for Songwriting by the Americana Music Association.