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To be moving is better than to be standing still, Richard Thompson says, and Richard Thompson should know. The influential singer-songwriter and virtuosic guitarist has been on a singular musical journey for over a half century, from his days in the 60s as a pioneer of British folk rock with Fairport Convention, to his seminal 70s duo work with Linda Thompson, to the exploratory, deeply emotional music of the solo career that has been his primary concern ever since. In 2018 Thompson released his 19th solo album, the critically-acclaimed 13 Rivers, and now, five years later, he has followed it up with his latest communication, Ship To Shore. The time taken between these efforts is something like an eternity for the prolific artist, but there was a reason: Covid kind of halted everything for two-and-a-half years, he explains. But once Thompson began writing again, new songs came in a burst of inspiration. Freeze, the leadoff track on Ship To Shore, is also the first of the new songs Thompson composed. And its classic RT, with a bounding rhythm a strange cross between Celtic and African, he says punctuated by nimble, curlicue guitar licks and dark (at times, darkly humorous) lyrics, in this case of a man so paralyzed by his life that he cant even bring himself to end it. Hesitating on a ledge, Thompson sings, A friendly breeze there might push you / Make up your troubled mind for signed copies of both formats available whilst stocks last.
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