when i was poor (last summer) i sold my copy of richard and linda thompson's shoot out the lights on ebay for around £8 something, strange because i bought it second hand for a couple of quid. it was a terrible album though, i only bought it because he played blues guitar on some nick drake songs. his stuff doesn't enthrall me
r & l had i think long ago descended into self-parody by the time of 'shoot out the lights': "this is another new song. it's about, um, our divorce. again"
rt has the problem that he has been england's greatest living electric folk guitarist for so long that he has trouble coming up with worthwhile projects. actually this is pretty much true for any time after '73 or so. seriously tho i had just had thompson in mind bcz of i was listening to 'i want to see the bright lights tonight' (which is a pretty good album except the second half just seems like a drearier recapitulation of the first half), but seriously i think the whole electric folk scene of '67 -> whenever is something you need to look into. particularly if you're going to carry on with this mandolin thing. starting points: fairport convention up through to 'full house', the second steeleye span album. vashti bunyan, except you're about three years late on the boat on rediscovering that one. not that you missed the boat. the boat sunk.
other than say john martyn, nick drake, donovan, richard thompson, robert wyatt, roy harper, vashti bunyan and fairport convention i don't really think i've missed too much from the uk electric folk scene of the 70's
i'm spending more time listening to bert jansch, sandy bull, sufjan stevens, jim o'rourke, ranier ptacek etc for inspiration with other acoustic instruments. newer artists are quite interesting to listen to for the whole experimental/electronica folk thing like nikolai dunger, jens lekman, KOC, king creosote, adem and fridge, hanne hukkelberg, st. thomas, even johanson (magnet) etc
particularly french indie rock gubbins
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r & l had i think long ago descended into self-parody by the time of 'shoot out the lights': "this is another new song. it's about, um, our divorce. again"
rt has the problem that he has been england's greatest living electric folk guitarist for so long that he has trouble coming up with worthwhile projects. actually this is pretty much true for any time after '73 or so. seriously tho i had just had thompson in mind bcz of i was listening to 'i want to see the bright lights tonight' (which is a pretty good album except the second half just seems like a drearier recapitulation of the first half), but seriously i think the whole electric folk scene of '67 -> whenever is something you need to look into. particularly if you're going to carry on with this mandolin thing. starting points: fairport convention up through to 'full house', the second steeleye span album. vashti bunyan, except you're about three years late on the boat on rediscovering that one. not that you missed the boat. the boat sunk.
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i'm spending more time listening to bert jansch, sandy bull, sufjan stevens, jim o'rourke, ranier ptacek etc for inspiration with other acoustic instruments. newer artists are quite interesting to listen to for the whole experimental/electronica folk thing like nikolai dunger, jens lekman, KOC, king creosote, adem and fridge, hanne hukkelberg, st. thomas, even johanson (magnet) etc
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you are so bluffing.
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