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Track Listings
| 1. Let It Blow |
| 2. For Who's Sake? |
| 3. Miss Patsy |
| 4. Old Thames Side |
| 5. How Does Your Garden Grow? |
| 6. My Soul, My Soul |
| 7. Cressida |
| 8. Row, Boys, Row |
| 9. Mutton Street |
| 10. Precious One |
| 11. A Solitary Life |
| 12. Should I Betray? |
| 13. When We Were Boys At School |
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The opening track, "Let It Blow", is a funny account of a relationship conducted in the grubby glare of the tabloids, "For Whose Sake?" and "Miss Patsy" are sterling illustrations of Thompson's ability to frame modern sentiments and stories within time-served folk idioms. "Boys Of Mutton Street" starts with a riff which is surely intentionally an echo of Thompson¹s previously best-known acoustic song, "1952 Vincent Black Lightning", and "Solitary Life"{ sounds like it might be Thompson's take on Radiohead's "Fitter Happier".
There has been bizarrely little recognition of the possibility, but after the resounding classics Mock Tudor and The Old Kit Bag, Front Parlour Ballads suggests that Thompson may well be in the prime of his long and extraordinary career. --Andrew Mueller
Customer Reviews
This stripped down acoustic approach really suits Richard Thompson and his playing is simply sublime.
Long regarded as a guitarist's guitarist, this album reinforces that opinion.
If you are a RT fan this is an essential. If you have never heard him before, you won't be disappointed.
Any songs are simple but in the same time raffined.
Together Richard there is the drumming Dehra Dobkin.
Piece like " My soul-my soul" are unforgettable
I bought this at Cropredy festival just after it came out last year and my first introduction to some of the tracks was Richard playing them live with Danny Thompson on bass.
I then took the CD back to the campsite and played it on my car stereo until my battery went flat. It was worth the pain of messing about with the car for hours afterwards - that's how good this album is.
Recorded at his home studio in California, this is an album that sees Thompson stripped down to the essentials: voice and acoustic guitar, with a little percussion and electric guitar for colour. Colour is what is needed as well, because this is intimate, ambitious songwriting, with melodies that meander in the direction of the "art song" and stretch him both as a songwriter and, evidently, as a singer. It's a brave move, but one that misses as frequently as it hits.
Those who like Thompson as a folk singer will enjoy "Old Thames Side" ... those who like him as a rocker may warm to "Let It Grow" ... those who appreciate him as one of Britain's finest songwriters may admire some of the more innovative material. As a whole, however, the album is sombre and demanding, lacking the contrasts of light and dark that have thrown his work into relief on previous albums. New listeners shouldn't start here, and old ones may not want to stay too long.
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