Fairport Convention Founding Member Richard Thompson

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🗓️ 28 June 2024

⏱️ 51 minutes

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British singer/guitarist Richard Thompson spoke to Fresh Air in 1994 and 2022 about about his formative years and about pioneering a new musical genre that blended rock with traditional music of the British isles. He has a new album called Ship to Shore.

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0:18.2	This is Fresh Air, I'm David Bienkule.
0:20.9	Richard Thompson, the British singer-songwriter guitarist who has been writing and recording music since the 60s,
0:27.0	is about to launch a summer concert tour and has a new album out.
0:31.0	It's called Ship to Shore, and it's his first studio album in five years.
0:36.4	The longest stretch between records since he co-founded Fairport Convention in 1967 when he was 18 years old. Five years later he became a
0:46.1	recording duo with his wife Linda Thompson then went solo in 1983. Here's a
0:52.2	taste of what's left to lose, a new song from ship to shore.
0:56.0	Goodbye Falls Home.
1:00.0	Goodbye Cruel meeting. meeting.
1:04.0	You left me for dead.
1:07.0	With my heart still beating.
1:11.0	What do I do
1:15.0	To kill the egg?
1:19.0	How many drops of
1:24.0	drops of comfort do I take
1:29.0	What's left to lose
1:34.0	everything? left to lose. Everything I cared about is gone.
1:38.0	Was left to lose.
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