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RE: (TV) OT: Richard Thompson on ACL

Yup, it was "Crawl Back (Under My Stone)." I'm a huge RT fan, but I agree that most of his recent albums don't quite add up to satisfying wholes. But I don't think he's made a great _album_ (as opposed to a collection of great-to-good songs) since "Hand of Kindness." This might have something to do with the "CD problem": In the days of LPs, one could give each side, consisting usually of 4 or 5 songs, a separate "dramatic arc." It's a lot harder to pull that off on a CD, which has only one side and is typically several songs longer than an LP.
For what it's worth, I actually prefer "Mirror Blue" to "Rumour and Sigh." Fine as the latter album is, it strikes me as the culmination and partial ossification of what he'd been doing for the previous several albums, whereas on "Mirror Blue" he starts branching out in some new directions, like the guitar-acoustic bass interplay of "Easy There, Steady Now." (Or maybe it's just that much of the best material on R&S has been overplayed in concert - at least for those of us lucky enough to see him in concert fairly often.) 

Not that any of this has anything to do with Television....

- Jesse


Probably "Crawl Back (Under My Stone)" from Mock Tudor.  I revere RT as a
God from time to time, always live, but I think he's been coasting in the
studio for the last few efforts.  A couple great songs worthy of his talent
and a bunch of average ones that aren't.  However, as is so often the case,
no one interested in RT agrees with me on this.

My two cents,
MikeF


 -----Original Message-----
 From: Eric Veillette [mailto:ericgv@hotmail.com]
 Sent: Monday, October 29, 2001 3:53 PM
 To: tv@obbard.com
 Subject: (TV) OT: Richard Thompson on ACL


 I caught the last five minutes of the esteemed R. Thompson on
 Austin City
 Limits last Friday night, and damnit that last song he played
 has been stuck
 in my head all weekend. I'd never heard it before, but the
 playing and the
 voice was just incredible. The title *could* be "Crawl
 Back"... Anyone
 familiar with this one and know where its from?

 -eric

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