Richard Thompson | Facebook Live Concert #3
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- Опубліковано 4 жов 2024
- The third of Richard Thompson's Facebook Live concerts recorded at his home in New Jersey during the coronavirus lock down of 2020. Richard is joined by his partner Zara Phillips for part of the performance.
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Sam Jones (2:07)
The Poor Ditching Boy (9:02)
Sunset Song (13:09)
Doctor of Physick (22:24)
Devonside (26:02)
The End of The Rainbow (31:00)
Old Thames Side (35:44)
Hand of Kindness (42:43)
Guns Are The Tongues (47:55)
Razor Dance (54:04)
Poppy-Red (58:28)
She Twists The Knife Again (1:04:10)
Recorded on Sunday 31st May 2020. We do not claim copyright of this material, just uploading here to give broader access in the spirit that the original concert was intended.
Originally streamed on Richard Thompson's Facebook page
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Richard Is The King Of Music
"...a happy song followed by another happy song followed by another happy song..." I'll believe that when I hear it! lol
Lol 😆
@@robertcronin6603 RT's sad songs make me happy. Go figure.
Just seen this series! October 2023!!!!!What did I miss! Superb great fun, and Zara really adds something to the songs. Cant get enough of RT!
Wonderful!
Listening again and again.
Reliving Perth October 27 2021.
Richard' Thompson's Facebook Live concerts have really been one of the better things about "sheltering in place" these past few months.
I'll be back in 30 years after I learn how to play the Razor Dance. Good lord.
Thank you Richard for the superb music
I used to play Hand of Kindness album many times in 1984 on my college radio station and frequently played a promo for the station (WIUS Bloomington, Indiana) kindly made by none other than Richard Thompson . The only other promo was made by a guy from New York named... Joey Ramone.... forever grateful for supporting our college station
(8:33) Richard, I'm one of those who bought Henry the Human Fly when it first came out over here on the west coast. Absolutely love every song on that album. Its till my favorite. From the wondrous celtic guitar riffs on Roll Over Vaughn Williams to the last moving tune Ol Changing Way! Thank you for the rare music that can inspire and illuminate one's life.
Yes it was that album . I love that song I cried all the way threw you closed eyed playing it imso happy I found this . Thank you so much for doing this . I just became your 200th thumbs up lol. My aunt before she died in her prime used to throw parties . She would drink a bit to much play her guitar and always played House of the rising son by my request just for me . I miss her so much . I named my daughter after her . This is the first time since the last party she threw that I feel a little like I'm in her living room and she is about to brake out her vhs of elvis movies nice and buzzed and say she would have never kicked him out of bed . Lol. She was a good woman a little wild and crazy I would like to think I learned that from her . Thanks for making me feel that way one more time I have been looking for that . I never got to say goodbye to her. This feels like goodbye. Thanks You .
What a voice. What a guitar. Wow! Thanks so much, Mr. Thompson.
thanks Richard, and Zara, play on and keep safe, Namaste Zoe (Thanks for changing the face of folk way back in the 1960"s) luv Zoe
Thank you RT, for all the times i saw your heart live. Rocky Mount, VA was the last, and thanks for your tribute to Sandy Denny, made me cry. Thanks also for a show outside of Boston, Maura Kennedy & i sat behind you and stared at your "arse" for all but three songs. Your songs speak.
Went looking for Winnebago singing "Cheating on your Heart" and somehow ended up here...how lucky am I? Something different for sure, I thoroughly enjoyed the concert. More power to your string picking fingers. Cheers!
Yes, we do indeed like "Devonside", certainly one of Richard's loveliest melodies despite the darkness of the story.
Absolutely fab Richard and Zara are real people with real music loved ‘tongues are the guns’ but loved everything !!
I bought Henry the Human Fly. Never met Richard, either. That makes at lest six of us.
Make it 6 and a half; I do own a copy of HTHF, but I have met Richard very briefly just once.
HtHF is among my lifetime Top 10. But I've not met anyone.
Well, I bought Henry the Human Fly, met RT and had him sign my copy. I've also binge read Thomas Hardy (my spiritual poet guide) and covered Poor Ditching Boy on more than one occasion.
rclanark - I didn't buy HTHF but I have read just about all that Hardy wrote - having done my undergraduate dissertation on him!! I love Hardy's poetry but really adore his short stories (very underrated compared to his novels and poems). If you haven't already read it the Melancholy Hussar and The Withered Arm (Wessex Tales) are wonderful!!
Great as usual, it's always good to see Richard play. End of the Rainbow was fantastic. Hope to see him again in concert when we emerge blinking into the new world!! Be safe everyone..
Love the combination of Richard and Zaras voices on Maybe just the Hand. I will now go to listen to some of Zaras music after listening to Richards for 40 years!!
"I was lookin' for Trouble to tangle my line/ Trouble came lookin' for me...." most of human history can be found within those two lines.
I'm SO glad you've sung the 'Poor Ditchin' Boy'; I've been (trying to!) singing it for 30 years but never could get the chords to sound just like yours! Now I've cracked it. A big TA for you and all your wonderful songs.
I love the Poor Ditching Boy (among many others). Thanks for playing it! I came to it through Solas' version.
Fantastic stuff one of the true greats!
richard, please teach us to play Turning of the tide ! love that tune !
Enjoyed all three concerts (so far.) Keep 'em coming.
Cheers and salaam to the master
Bought HHTHF in Horsham, did not know what what I was getting into. However I did meet wife number two in Islington when RT was performing in a pub, something to do with Alexis Korner who had recently died. The place was packed to the rafters and beyond.
Please record with Joel Zifkin again. Dream Attic was a superb album, made all the better by his contribution.
I bought Henfry and have met RT twice now...
I too bought it and nearly met Richard after a great concert he did with his son in Brecon some years ago😎
Sublime👌
Love Poor Ditching Boy
Thank you Sir Richard. I would give my left nut, maybe the right one, if I had one fifth your talent! When the world returns to its proper axis please tour Northern Calif. Your music has gotten through very difficult health problems which left me with out a voice to speak. I close my eyes and hear your voice in times of need.
I hope you've fully recovered- or at least very least improved substantially. And that you're able to wander around in beautiful Northern Calif.
Nothing wrong with HTHF, it's still one of my favorite Thommo albums.........I must be one of the three that you met (late 70's early 80's the much lamented Stonehouse, Bristol )
Geoffry Llewellyn Thanks. I bought it and it is still a favourite. Racehorse and Ditching Boy are the best tracks for me and I was delighted to find the latter in this concert. Was looking forward to seeing him in concert in London later this year. These concerts make up for the disappointment unless the virus disappears overnight.
@@michaelwells7792 - I feel your pain - 2 years ago we were on our way to an RT concert in Eastbourne when the car blew up - I was very, very upset!! Last year we saw him twice though - once at Sidmouth amidst a terrible storm and then at the Albert Hall!!
@@honeychurchgipsy6 Finally remembered to reply. The man plays anywhere he can, I've seen him three times, three different venues in Northampton and we're hardly the centre of the music world. I rarely use the word but h is unique.
P.s. used to make sure that the 'Blues and Folk Club' at Hull University always booked you ' cos I handled their budget!
"Sam Jones" is in my Halloween mix list. Love it!
Bought Henry and I’ve never met you. When can I expect a visit? After the lockdown is done?
Wonderful! I too bought 'Henry' and have yet to meet the inestimable Mr T...maybe on the next tour...
Great performance and set list - thank you. Always loved the song 'Sam Jones' an underappreciated gem (IMHO) - Would be great if 'King of Bohemia' made an appearance at some point, hint, hint...
GloverNorm - I was thinking the same - Mirror Blue is a great album IMO!!
4th time I sat thru, in a single word.....magfookinnificient.
I bought Henry the Human Fly too - I look forward to meeting you (#4)!
Somewhere on the Swarbrick grounds, a tiny spring runs. In that trickle is the music of heaven denied to the sober.
That's my theory.
I could be full o shite.
But it addresses each point.
Anyone catch the tuning for Poor Ditching Boy? Maybe CGDGBE?
Wow, how good was Sunset Song?
Howdy!
Soldiers Things would explain more about the hat Richard. First order harmony between the guitar and your voice Euro-pops you will get there.
HTHF, alas, that’s one I don’t have yet, (I don’t think I do at least after briefly scanning at least 15 other RT titles I have), but I have met the man after show. (Aladdin theater, that old theater of a questionable past).
I don’t know why, but I’ve always wanted to hear Grey Walls live...dark...
Also own Henry the Human Fly and never met RT.
Linda McCartney, nee' Linda Eastman, was an heiress to the Eastman/Kodak fortune; not surprising that she would have become a photographer !
I have Henry and … - love ‘Angels took my race horse…
It's good, but it's mostly on the left hand side!
But he only sold 8 copies!
Maybe Richard could try a few more covers? 'Oh, Yoko'?
Please please smiffys glass eye
Steve Parkinson, sad to say that songs about bullies are never irrelevant. All of us have known ostracized children like Smiffy; some of us have *been* those children. Also worth noting that these days, even some of the apocryphal "Officer Friendly" types have been replaced by bullies dressed in blue, or black. (BTW, at a concert many years ago RT honored my request and played Smiffy's Glass Eye).
It must have been 4 people who bought Henry the human fly I did (cos I liked the cover) and I've never met you. Why do you always wear that daft bunnet.
Lots of musicians seem to find it difficult to go the full Phil Collins.