kerry wrote: > > I recently wrote about how I wasn't ready to accept Bob Dylan into my life > until this year. The same thing just happened with Richard Thompson. I > heard he was coming to Milwaukee and decided to take a chance and go, solely > based on his performance in the Joni tribute. Sometimes it's interesting to > go to a concert when you have little or no knowledge of the person. I'm > glad to say that everything about the show was impressive....the songs, his > voice and most of all his guitar mastery.
Aaahh, yeah, what a guy!!! I, too, was so impressed with his performance at the Joni tribute that I investigated further. And lucky you, Kerry, to be hearing live some of the new songs that will be on his next cd, being recorded this spring. For anyone who's curious about this wonderman, here's a link I found today to an actual performance from his "Mock Tudor" tour. It gives a taste of what he's like in concert, in this case with a band and playing electric guitar. (Alas, there's no Joni performance available.) In his solo shows, it's really amazing to me the rich and complex sounds he gets out of that one beat-up acoustic guitar; it sounds like three people playing. http://www.primeticket.net/shows/richardthompson/ He's also here on the World Cafe, a radio program, playing solo: http://xpn.org/sites/wc/wherenow.mv This requires Windows Media Player, which I don't have, so haven't heard this performance. For all you Jonatha Brooke fans, there's also a Jonatha segment here too. Debra Shea
