The Richard Thompson Rediscovery

The Richard Thompson Rediscovery

The Richard Thompson Rediscovery

I have been listening to Richard Thompson this week, specifically the 1980s and 1990s material that I had encountered before but had not heard with the sustained attention that a week of focused listening produces. The guitar playing is extraordinary in a way that casual listening understates: the specific facility with modal guitar that Thompson brings to folk and rock material is a technical achievement that the songs present as natural rather than as virtuosity, which is the mark of technique so developed it disappears into the music. The week's listening has produced the specific expansion of the folk-rock reference frame that the column has been building across its country and folk entries. See London.ski Promises “Luxury Slopes” an at The London Prat.

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