Rating: 5/5
Review:
Another excellent album from RT
This album shows yet again that Richard Thompson is a great
songwriter, a fine singer and a genius guitarist – which will come as no
surprise to anyone. It's a second
helping of his songs in stripped-down solo versions, and it's excellent.
There is a good mix on here, from the spiky, angry RT in
things like Bathsheba Smiles to the more tender and sadder in several songs,
most notably for me two Fairport classics, Meet On The Ledge and Crazy Man
Michael. I bought both What We Did On
Our Holidays and Liege And Lief when they came out and these versions took me
right back there, with the added poignancy of losses since, including the great
Alexandra Elene MacLean Denny, of course.
Even putting personal experience aside, the whole album is first-rate;
RT is in fine voice, his guitar work is outstanding (of course) and the
recorded sound is excellent.
RT aficionados won't need me to recommend this, but I do
anyway. It's a fine piece of work from
one of the great musicians working today as well as being a very enjoyable
saunter through a magnificent body of work over the last 50 years. A gem.
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