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The Old Kit Bag

~ Richard Thompson (Artist)
4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
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  • Audio CD (3 Feb 2003)
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Label: Cooking Vinyl
  • ASIN: B000083EBJ
  • Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 15,049 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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1. Gethsemane
2. Jealous Words
3. I’ll Tag Along
4. A Love You Can’t Survive
5. One Door Opens
6. First Breath
7. Destiny
8. Got No Right
9. Pearly Jim
10. Sight Unseen
11. Outside of the Inside
12. Happy Days and Auld Lang Syne

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Amazon.co.uk Review

One studio album every three years is beginning to seem like a guarantee that every new Richard Thompson release will be a gold-plated delight. The Old Kit Bag arrives three years after Mock Tudor, which in turn appeared three years after You? Me? Us?. And if not exactly a trilogy, the three taken together represent some of his most consistently rewarding work. On the new album Thompson is unusually relaxed--indeed he's positively genial in places--and even when he dials the mood down it's done with deliciously self-mocking irony ("I've got no right to have it all"). In the country-inflected "Sight Unseen" he actually goes so far as to sing of love without bitterness, and only with "Outside of the Inside" do his lyrics really sting ("God never listened to Charlie Parker / Charlie Parker lived in vain / Blasphemer, womaniser / Let a needle numb his brain").

Musically The Old Kit Bag employs a stripped-down band and back-to-basics production reminiscent of early Fairport and as on those albums acoustic folk instruments ("One Door Opens") here rub shoulders with that inimitable electric guitar ("A Love You Can't Survive", for example). Danny Thompson does his solid thing on double-bass (check out the wonderfully languid "First Breath" and "Got No Right"), while Judith Owen's backing softens Thompson's familiar gruff vocals. Like every Richard Thompson album this one's a grower, but it's well worth the effort. --Mark Walker



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Umpteenth album (by one reckoning, his 25th) from English folk legend and former member of Fairport Convention. Intimate, atmospheric music with rich, evocative lyrics, recorded in a sparse trio format with next to no overdubs, conveying layers of meaning with minimal gestures. Produced by John Chelew (John Hiatt, Five Blind Boys of Alabama).

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars A Masterpiece, 12 Jun 2004
Typically excellent Richard Thompson album with superb guitar playing throughout, fantastic changes of mood, and excellent singing (Thompson sounds a much more confident singer here than on some of his earlier albums). Ironies and streaks of genius abound and the whole is bound together with the sense of a truly powerful, original, and inspired musical intelligence at work. Unmissable.
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Pensive sadness about the human condition, 14 Mar 2007
By A. J. Rabet "Rabs" (United Kingdom) - See all my reviews
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What can one say that has already been said by others about the master of electric contemporary folk other than this is album is truly superb with the normal underpinning of RT's gravely voice and incredible mastery of the guitar in his laid back style.

From the opening chords of "Gethsemane" to the closing bars of Happy Days and Old Lang Syne" this album delights not only because one can appreciate the skills of RT and his backing musicians but also because the lyrics of this album make one think throughout.

Listen to the anti fundamentalist polemic of "Outside of the Inside" to songs about lost loves such as "One Door Opens" to "First Breath" As normal with RT he tends to concentrate on what has been lost rather than what has been gained so he can sound a bit miserable but aren't all the greatest songs to some extent?
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Richard Thompson on top form, 15 Jan 2006
By Andy Millward (Broxbourne, Herts, UK) - See all my reviews
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This was the first album by Richard Thompson on an independent label in many years, and what a power of good it did him! His creative powers were seldom better and the resulting album sounds as fresh and inventive as anything in his prolific output - unmistakable folk roots, but undeniably contemporary. Not only that, but he demonstrates exactly why he's among the best British guitarists in either electric or acoustic modes. Even his voice, at times an acquired taste, sounds in fine fettle here, displaying a range that would surprise many. Thompson is helped by a simple band and a very basic, stripped down sound that allows the excellence of the raw materials to speak for themselves - and in terms of quality singer-songwriters, they never got better than this.

The Old Kit Bag gets off to a great start with the dark and brooding Gethsemane and never looks back. There isn't a weak track here, though worthy of mention are the mandolin-driven One Door Opens, First Breath, Word Unspoken Sight Unseen, and Outside on the Inside (apparently about how the Taliban sees the West.)

A really first class collection shows that the man is on top form. Can't wait to see him play live at the Barbican this month!

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Most Recent Customer Reviews

5.0 out of 5 stars A true modern day classic
A great great album, in my top ten of all time. The opening track of Gethsemane is worth the price alone, but then again the other eleven tracks are worthy of numerous plays as... Read more
Published 10 months ago by Poly

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent album for this first-time Richard Thompson fan
I wasn't previously familiar with Mr. Thompson's songs, though I'd heard about him for years. This album was a fantastic introduction and makes me want to go catch up on... Read more
Published on 15 Dec 2003 by Katherine

5.0 out of 5 stars A Tour de Force
The Old Kit Bag marks a bit of a change of direction for Richard Thompson with his first new release since leaving Capitol. Read more
Published on 20 May 2003 by dennimi

5.0 out of 5 stars One Door Opens?
This album has a slightly more traditional sound than some of RT's recent work. 'One Door Opens' and 'Happy Days and Auld Lang Syne' sound like they could be old folk tunes, and... Read more
Published on 23 Feb 2003

4.0 out of 5 stars RT's best release in 7 years!
This is a Richard Thompson album very much in the mould of the previous two releases, more consistent than You? Me? Us? Read more
Published on 17 Feb 2003 by jenko_fortitude

5.0 out of 5 stars Lyrically interesting and musically excellent
It is best not to try to categorise Richard Thompson's music, for his style is unique and always interesting. Read more
Published on 12 Feb 2003 by Tim Edmonds

5.0 out of 5 stars GET YOUR KIT ON!
Among pop music genres folk-rock is probably the most unfashionable, being either ridiculed or plain ignored by those arbiters of taste who would tell us what's hot and what's... Read more
Published on 12 Feb 2003 by Dudley Serious

5.0 out of 5 stars This One Deserves To Get RT Recognised
Richard Thompson has changed record label for this first album in a while - his guitar playing is quite exceptional throughout, and his lyrics are evocative, and haunting in a... Read more
Published on 10 Feb 2003 by S. Bradnam

5.0 out of 5 stars I'm ready for some new RT, R-U?
Although I have not yet heard all of the songs on Richard Thompson's new CD, I have heard half of the songs at some of the live concerts he has been giving the last couple of... Read more
Published on 10 Jan 2003 by David B. Hughes

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