RICHARD THOMPSON announces new album
‘STILL’
Produced by JEFF TWEEDY
Released June 29, 2015 on Proper
Records
RICHARD THOMPSON ELECTRIC TRIO – UK tour in Aug & Sept
2015
“Richard Thompson is the kind of guitar
player other guitar players revere. It’s not just his technique, nor the fact
that he’s equally at home with an electric or an acoustic guitar. He’s also a
songwriter of uncommon skill.” — NPR
“Richard’s
been one of my favorite guitar players for a very long time. When I think about
it, he’s also one of my favorite songwriters and favorite singers. He’s the
Ultimate Triple Threat. Getting to work closely with him on this record was a
truly rewarding experience, not to mention a great thrill. And he keeps alive my
streak of working exclusively with artists who make me look good as a producer.”
– Jeff Tweedy
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – April 28th,
2015 – The renowned guitarist and songwriter Richard Thompson will
release Still, an album of new music produced by Jeff Tweedy, on June 29, 2015
via Proper Records.
Still will be available in several configurations
including a twelve-track CD, a twelve-track double 180-gram vinyl album and a
deluxe CD package that includes a five-song EP from a previously un-released
session.
Still was recorded in a two-story rehearsal loft in Chicago
over the course of just nine days with Wilco’s Jeff Tweedy at the helm, backed
by several longtime players from both Thompson’s and Tweedy’s bands. Thompson
enlisted Tweedy’s production skills in an effort to shake up his own creative
approach to making records. “It turned out be really good idea,” says
Thompson. “Jeff is musically very sympathetic. Although some of his
contributions are probably rather subtle to the listener’s ear, they were really
interesting and his suggestions were always very pertinent.”
“I
really tried to not have any preconceived ideas,” Thompson says of working
with Tweedy, “but of course you do. I tried to shove those to the back of my
mind. You don’t really know until you turn up — what the studio is like, what
the gear is like. It ended up being a nice unfolding of
surprises.”
The key to Still’s emotional resonance is a set of
gripping new Thompson compositions rich with his signature mix of trenchant
insight, gallows humor, and keen empathy for characters at the brink of being
overcome by their emotions, their pasts, or themselves.
A recipient of
BBC’s Lifetime Achievement Award and Mojo’s Les Paul Award, Richard Thompson was
appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire in the 2011 New Year
Honours List. The Americana Music Association also recently honored him with a
Lifetime Achievement Award for Songwriting. Robert Plant, REM, Elvis Costello,
Bonnie Raitt and many others have recorded Thompson’s songs.
Taken as a
whole, Still is a powerful dispatch from an acknowledged master who remains
unafraid to put himself into demanding new environments – its title reflecting
that resilience and seemingly endless resourcefulness. “Or,” Thompson
adds slyly, “it could be read as ‘Is he still performing? I thought he died
years ago.”
Pre-order ‘Still’
here:
Propermusic: http://smarturl.it/6rh581
Amazon:
http://smarturl.it/gogobx
iTunes:
http://smarturl.it/fkzbdk
http://www.proper-records.co.uk/richardthompson-still/
Still
– TRACK LISTING:
1) She Never Could Resist A Winding
Road
2) Beatnik Walking
3) Patty Don’t You Put Me Down
4) Broken
Doll
5) All Buttoned Up
6) Josephine
7) Long John Silver
8) Pony In
The Stable
9) Where’s Your Heart
10) No Peace No End
11) Dungeons For
Eyes
12) Guitar Heroes
RICHARD THOMPSON ELECTRIC TRIO – UK TOUR
DATES
Fri 28 Aug Wareham, Dorset Purbeck Valley Folk Festival
(solo)
Sun 30 Aug Shrewsbury Shrewsbury
Folk Festival
Tue 01 Sep Dublin Vicar
Street
Wed 02 Sep Perth Perth Concert
Hall
Thu 03 Sep Aberdeen Aberdeen Music
Hall
Sat 05 Sep Edinburgh Queens
Hall
Sun 06 Sep Gateshead
Sage
Tue 08 Sep Liverpool Philharmonic
Hall
Wed 09 Sep Salford
Lowry
Thu 10 Sep Sheffield City
Hall
Sat 12 Sep Nottingham Royal
Centre
Sun 13 Sep Birmingham Symphony
Hall
Tue 15 Sep Cardiff St. David’s
Hall
Wed 16 Sep Bristol Colston
Hall
Fri 18 Sep Ipswich Regent
Theatre
Sat 19 Sep Cambridge Corn
Exchange
Sun 20 Sep London Royal
Festival Hall
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