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Artist:
Richard Thompson
Title:
Sweet Warrior

Tracks:
Needle And Thread
I'll Never Give It Up
Take Care The Road You Choose
Mr. Stupid
Dad's Gonna Kill Me
Poppy-Red
Bad Monkey
'rancesca
Too Late To Come fishing
Sneaky Boy
She Sang Angels To Rest
Johnny's far Away
Guns Are The Tongues
Sunset Song."



Details:
Guitar and songwriting master Richard Thompson plugs in and produces his first electric album since 2003. No artist to emerge in the 2nd half of the æ60s has gone on to have a more productive and vital career than Richard Thompson. Incendiary sounds abound on a batch of timely and provocative new songs producing some of Richard's most memorable recordings . Thompson's latest work (Sweet Warrior˜ is his first electric album since 2003's The Old Kit Bag. When asked why he has chosen to plug in again Thompson replies (tongue partially in cheek as usual) (I tend to organize my writing in piles and the electric pile was becoming especially big so that's the one I chose to go to.˜ He adds that although the album wasnÆt assembled thematically on reflection it seems to keep returning to the subject of (combat in love as well as in war.˜

Label: Proper

This item was added to our catalog on Thursday 10 April, 2008