We caught up with Richard Thompson before a recent show in Annapolis, Maryland to talk about his latest studio album, 'Ship to Shore.'
We caught up with the folk troubadour before a recent show in Annapolis, Maryland to talk about his 19th and latest studio album,“If you love to dance to the music of the 15th century,” Richard Thompson tells the audience at Annapolis’s Rams Head on Stage, “you’ll love this one.” That song, “The Old Pack Mule,” does have the skip-and-hop rhythm of the Middle Ages, even though the lyrics are newly written and the song wasn’t released until the end of May as part of Thompson’s new album,.
Thompson considers himself lucky. When he first left school at 18 to co-found the Fairport Convention and become a full-time pop musician, the template was you worked hard for a few years and disappeared by age 25. In the mid-‘60s, many great blues singers, jazz saxophonists and folk fiddlers from earlier decades were being discovered working as janitors, dishwashers and elevator operators.
As appealing as the Fairport versions of songs by Bob Dylan and Joni Mitchell were, the band didn’t find its true identity till it turned its attention from America’s folk music to Britain’s on its fourth album, 1969’sIt was here that Thompson discovered the importance of geography in music. “You always fear that it will become one humongous global thing,” Thompson says today, “but just when it seems bleakest, new sounds are breaking out of Cuba, India, even the U.S.
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