Richard Thompson

Bullseye with Jesse Thorn

Jesse Thorn

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🗓️ 31 May 2024

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Richard Thompson began his music career as the guitarist for the English folk rock band Fairport Convention. Following his time with the group, he began performing as part of a duo with his then wife, Linda. Then, after the couple split, as a solo artist. Thompson has recorded over two dozen albums. His latest record is called Ship to Shore and it's out now! He talks with us about the new record, his time with Fairport Convention and even performs a few songs alongside his wife, Zara Phillips.

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0:29.0	So in the early 60s a lot of English musical acts,
0:32.0	pop music acts sounded like this. That is of course the Rolling Stones.
0:47.0	The Rolling Stones.
0:49.0	First song on their first album.
0:51.0	It is great. I'm not suggesting otherwise. But on that track and I don't
0:56.4	think the Rolling Stones would disagree with me here, they are basically doing their best to
1:01.6	sound like Chuck Berry or Little Richard or Bo Diddley or any of a number of other black American rock and rollers.
1:09.0	The Rolling Stones of course had many compatriots riding that wave and you know so on and so forth the British
1:16.8	invasion changed music forever etc. A few years after that a new generation of British musicians decided to take a different approach.
1:26.0	They borrowed the musical vocabulary of those trendy rock bands,
1:30.0	the guitars, bass, the catchy hooks the cool outfits and then they applied that
1:38.5	vocabulary to something very very old traditional English folk songs. The result was a holiday and the One of the most prominent bands from this scene was Fairport Convention.
2:10.0	That's the band you just heard or have been hearing.
2:13.0	Their albums unhalf-bricking and Lege and Leif
2:17.0	defined British folk rock and brought in fans from all over the world.
2:21.0	They featured Sandy Denny on vocals. She'd just joined the band a few
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