RE: (TV) OT: Richard Thompson on ACL

["Forster, Michael H." <michael.forster@unisys.com>]

Yeah, I sort of agree with this but Mirror Blue had MGB-GT on it which I
just hated, especially as I saw it as sort of sequel to Vincent Black
Lightning 1952, which is so, so much better.  And your assessment of the
songs on R&S is pretty good.  I loved "I Feel so Good" the first 10 or 15
times I saw him do it.  Now..............not so much.

MikeF

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jesse Hochstadt [mailto:Jesse_Hochstadt@brown.edu]
> Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2001 7:24 PM
> To: tv@obbard.com
> Subject: 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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