After leaving Fairport Convention in 1971, Richard Thompson released his first solo album Henry The Human Fly to negative reviews. The next five albums saw Thompson perform as a duo with singer and wife to be Linda Peters credited as Richard And Linda Thompson. Their last album together, Shoot Out The Lights, preceded a break up […]
Not exactly a cover but it certainly sounds like John Martyn wrote this song, or is it Nick Drake and was Richard Thompson in the room – and does it matter? The problem (if it is a problem) is that having heard this sound for the first time in the late sixties and early seventies as […]
The story of Emitt Rhodes leaves you frustrated, confused, angry and shaking your head in disbelief at the man’s bad luck and you might even be a little concerned about his present view of the world if you have an hour to listen to the radio interview from 2010 that is posted below. A man […]
An excitable Fairport Convention from 1968 with a slightly quicker version of the first song from their debut album. The song was written by American singer/songwriter Emitt Rhodes. At this point they were looking towards American folk and mainly American/Canadian singer/songwriters for inspiration. This was to change in the coming years as they concentrated on […]
Richard Thompson finally makes the acoustic album he’s been meaning to make for years. He reaches back to his most famous classics (hence the title) giving us re-recorded versions of Wall Of Death, Shoot Out The Lights, Walking On A Wire and I Want To See The Bright Lights Tonight. He moves forward through his […]
Kate Rusby affectionately known as ‘The Barnsley Nightingale’ was one of the first of a younger generation in the ‘New Wave’ of Folk that included Kathryn Roberts, Eliza Carthy, Cara Dillon, Seth Lakeman and many others. Since the heady days of Fairport Convention, Pentangle or June Tabor, the folk scene had begun a downward spiral as […]