Richard Thompson Re-Up Date : The Life & Music of Richard Thompson [2006] | Butterboy + Richard Thompson BBC 4 Session - Goodbye TVC-2013

 Often Butterboy updates his links to special volumes he has shared with us and I do check on them regularly but I figure most folks do this when they are looking for something in particular but this one caught the eye this morning (something to do with being an indispensable classic!?)

 Richard Thompson - The Life & Music of Richard Thompson [2006] (5 x CDs) + Bonus

Butterboy notes:  Richard Thompson - The Life & Music of Richard Thompson [2006] (5 x CD's) + Bonus

For Richard Thompson fanatics (and those who admire the brilliant songwriter and virtuoso guitarist tend to be quite ardent about him), this five-disc set of obscurities, outtakes, live performances, and previously unreleased material is the holy grail. Earlier releases from Free Reed found the label mining the riches of British folk-rock from the likes of Fairport Convention (which featured Thompson in its most popular incarnation), but here they've hit the mother lode. This isn't the place for a newcomer to start with Thompson, as other "best-of" anthologies and career-spanning compilations might provide a better introduction. Instead, this is a treasure trove that will offer discovery for even the most devoted fan. Each disc has a theme--epic ballads, discarded songs, the essential canon--with the disc of cover versions particularly fascinating. From performance tapes, Thompson makes everything from the Who's "Substitute" and Squeeze's "Tempted" to the traditional "Danny Boy" and "Shenandoah" sound like his own. The expansive selection illuminates Thompson as an artist of great range and subtlety, humor and heart, from the intimacy of his solo acoustic performances to galvanizing, electrically charged renditions of masterpieces such as "Shoot Out the Lights," "For Shame of Doing Wrong," and "Calvary Cross."   (Amazon)

A sixth CD "RT on FR" is offered free of charge by returning a coupon included in the 5,000 box sets. (included in this post). 

The tracks date from 1971 (the year RT left Fairport convention) to 2005 (including two tracks recorded specifically for this project. There are twelve tracks from the seventies and the rest are fairly equally distributed over the next three decades. 

If you haven’t got it and are a Thompson fan (who isn’t?!) have at it - you should really have this!

You won’t regret it!

WHY?

Well this  . . . . . .. saying Goodbye to BBC TV Centre

with Kami Thompson

Richard Thompson BBC 4 Session - Goodbye TVC-2013

if you listen to one thing I post today , , , ,  .   .    . make it THIS

As part of the Goodbye TV Centre celebrations, guitarist, singer and songwriter Richard Thompson plays a one-off concert filmed in TC8.

Thompson has been performing in BBC TV studios since 1969, starting on Top of the Pops with Fairport Convention and then making frequent appearances on the Old Grey Whistle Test, The Late Show and Later with Jools Holland as a solo artist and bandleader.

Filmed before the opening night of the tour celebrating the Top 20 placing of his album Electric, Thompson leads his current power trio through songs from that album, including Salford Sunday and Stony Ground, alongside classics from his songbook like I Want to See the Bright Lights and Tear Stained Letter. Thompson is joined on a couple of acoustic songs by former Fairport bandmate and master fiddler Dave Swarbrick, frequent collaborator Pete Zorn adds sax to Al Bowlly's In Heaven and his daughter Kami Thompson harmonises on Waltzing for Dreamers.

Filmed before a small studio audience in the bare style of some of the previous BBC music shows on which Thompson has appeared, this concert celebrates Thompson and a tradition of popular music performance from TV Centre.

1. I Want to See the Bright Lights Tonight

2. I'll Never Give It Up

3. Good Things Happen to Bad People

4. Salford Sunday

5. Medley: a) Wishing, b) Victors' Return, c) Gravel Path to Granny

6. Waltzing's for Dreamers

7. Stony Ground

8. Sally B.

9. Al Bowlly's in Heaven

10. Saving the Good Stuff for You

11. Tear Stained Letter

Kelly Boesch - A Very Unusual Town AI music videos

Kelly Boesch - A Very Unusual Town . . . . think I missed this one from 3 months ago now! 

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Jerry Harrison - The New Adventure (The Red & The Black) |

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again just reflecting on albums bought when they came out this Jerry Harrison . . . largely I am ashamed to say purchased because he was so admired in Talking Heads but hey, nothing wrong with that . . .it still fascinated me and added to my listening to Brian Eno and David Bowie (Low etc) and so on . . . . . 

Yo La Tengo - Shades of Blue (2018) | Guess I’m Dumb

Yo La Tengo - Shades of Blue (2018)

"Another dreamy pop song with Georgia’s appealing vocals. "

Ended up violet
Doesn’t matter what’s the hue

Sir Ian McKellen reflects on the status quo . . . . . Shakespeare from Thomas More THOUGHT FOR THE DAY!

 Sir Ian on the mob (400 years ago on the streets via Thomas Moore - by William Shakespeare!)

THE STRANGERS SHOULD BE REMOVED . . . . . . . !!!

and again here if the above doesn’t play . . . . 

Sir Ian McKellen performs speech about immigrants by Shakespeare from Thomas More (23/4/2016)

The Brothers Comatose & AJ Lee - "Angel Band"

 The guys (The Brothers Comatose) posted a clip of them doing this a cappella with the wonderful AJ Lee and I wish the whole thing was available but here’s their full band version!

So here with the Brothers and there are great songs with Blue Summit and AJ’s hauntingly pure voice deserves greater attention so . . . . . . . here goes nuffin’!

The Brothers Comatose & AJ Lee - "Angel Band”

AJ Lee & Blue Summit: A New Voice for a Classic Genre

Flagging The Double Es Newsletter Feb ’26 | Bobby Down Under | RAY PADGETT

Bob Dylan Hosts a Late-Night Sing-Along in a Hotel Bar

1986-02-07, Mt Smart Stadium, Auckland, New Zealand

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Auckland Star, New Zealand

The second show of the True Confessions tour took place in Auckland, New Zealand, two nights after the by-all-accounts underwhelming opening in Wellington. But, in between the two shows, there was a notable performance to a much smaller audience. 

At the Park Royal Hotel in Wellington, where the entourage was staying, many of the musicians gathered around the hotel piano late one night to jam. In Rolling Stone, Anthony DeCurtis reported what happened:

After the show, Dylan and the gang repaired to the Park Royal Hotel, where, shortly after midnight, Heartbreakers keyboardist Benmont Tench commandeered the piano at the hotel bar for an impromptu songfest that featured Dylan, Petty, Stevie Nicks (who was backstage at the show) and backup singer Debra Byrd. Their repertoire included “Save the Last Dance for Me,” “You Really Got a Hold on Me,” “Sincerely,” “What Becomes of the Broken Hearted,” “Daddy’s Home,” “Get a Job” and “Poison Ivy.” Sometime after three, everyone drifted off to bed.

Amazingly, someone managed to record this hotel jam.

Who? How? I have not been able to figure that out (anyone know?). It certainly wasn’t recorded in any official capacity, because, frankly, the sound quality stinks. It sounds like the tape recorder is maybe in the person’s coat pocket. Very distant and muffled, with occasional loud scratching noises that sound like fabric shifting against the mic.

As a result, Dylan’s voice is not really distinct. Though, from what you can hear, it doesn’t sound like he was taking the lead. The most immediately audible elements are Tench’s piano and the women (Nicks and Byrd, per Rolling Stone) singing. Occasionally you catch a male voice—could be Dylan, or Petty, or Tench, or someone else who just happens to be hanging out and singing along—but it’s hard to make out. What I’d give to hear Bob actuallytry to sing “Charlie Brown” or “Get a Job.” Alas.

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David Byrne - Strange Ritual | HERBERG DE KELDER

 Strange Ritual

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david byrne strange ritual

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