Post by MondayTuesday on Jan 28, 2013 17:59:57 GMT -5
track 10 of the new Thompson album "Electric" ( Feb 2013 ),
audio via NPR - pretty non-electric by the way ...
promotional thoughts here
PS (found here):
On Thompson’s new album, pointedly titled Electric, all of that is boiled down to its intense essence. ... there is a decidedly full-contact quality to his music and words, as always.
“The title’s Electric, and the music sometimes is,” he says.
Mostly electric, to be accurate, and always electrifying. Whether featuring electric or acoustic guitar, the songs are built around the tightly focused core of Thompson’s current, sharply honed trio: drummer Michael Jerome—who’s anchored his bands for more than a decade—and bassist Taras Prodaniuk complementing and often pushing the leader through a full range of emotional explorations.
The album was produced in Nashville by Buddy Miller ... Miller provides rhythm guitar here and there, Stuart Duncan guests on fiddle, Siobhan Maher Kennedy (of the English band River City People) sings harmonies on five of the songs and the incomparable Alison Krauss duets on the achingly lovely “The Snow Goose.”
audio via NPR - pretty non-electric by the way ...
promotional thoughts here
PS (found here):
On Thompson’s new album, pointedly titled Electric, all of that is boiled down to its intense essence. ... there is a decidedly full-contact quality to his music and words, as always.
“The title’s Electric, and the music sometimes is,” he says.
Mostly electric, to be accurate, and always electrifying. Whether featuring electric or acoustic guitar, the songs are built around the tightly focused core of Thompson’s current, sharply honed trio: drummer Michael Jerome—who’s anchored his bands for more than a decade—and bassist Taras Prodaniuk complementing and often pushing the leader through a full range of emotional explorations.
The album was produced in Nashville by Buddy Miller ... Miller provides rhythm guitar here and there, Stuart Duncan guests on fiddle, Siobhan Maher Kennedy (of the English band River City People) sings harmonies on five of the songs and the incomparable Alison Krauss duets on the achingly lovely “The Snow Goose.”