Electric (Richard Thompson album)

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Electric
Studio album by Richard Thompson
Released 11 February 2013 (UK)
5 February 2013 (USA)
Recorded Buddy Miller's house, May 2012
Genre British folk rock
Length50:01
Label Proper (UK, Europe)
New West (North America)
Producer Buddy Miller
Richard Thompson chronology
Cabaret Of Souls
(2012)		Electric
(2013)		 Acoustic Classics
(2014)

Electric [1] is the fourteenth studio album by Richard Thompson, released in 2013.

Richard Thompson (musician) British songwriter, guitarist and recording and performing musician

Richard Thompson is an English singer, songwriter, and guitarist.

Contents

Overview

The album was recorded in Buddy Miller's home in Nashville in May 2012. Thompson took his stripped down "electric trio" band (himself, bass player Taras Prodaniuk and drummer Michael Jerome) to the sessions. Miller produced, played some rhythm guitar parts and brought in some local players to augment the trio, notably Stuart Duncan and Siobhan Maher Kennedy. The bulk of the recording was finished in two weeks, with Miller overdubbing Alison Krauss's vocal parts on "The Snow Goose" later on.

Buddy Miller American musician

Steven Paul "Buddy" Miller is an American singer, songwriter, musician, recording artist and producer, currently living in Nashville, Tennessee. Miller is married to and has recorded with singer-songwriter Julie Miller.

Michael Jerome American drummer

Michael Jerome Moore, known as Michael Jerome is an American rock musician and drummer. He is a former member of the Toadies (1990–91), Course of Empire (1994–1998), and James Hall's band Pleasure Club, which was formed in 2002. He was a member of the Saginaw, Texas band Pop Poppins. He played on Charlie Musselwhite's 2004 release Sanctuary, and has also toured or recorded with Blind Boys of Alabama, John Cale, Anna Egge, Tom Freund and many others. Jerome is double-jointed and ambidextrous.

Stuart Duncan American musician

Stuart Duncan is an American bluegrass musician who plays the fiddle, mandolin, guitar and banjo.

The tracks were recorded on 16-track tape before being digitized for further manipulation in Pro-Tools.

Release

Following its release, the album peaked at number 16 on the UK Album Chart [2] and number 75 on the Billboard 200, [3] making it the highest charting album of Thompson's career in either country.

The Billboard 200 is a record chart ranking the 200 most popular music albums and EPs in the United States. It is published weekly by Billboard magazine. It is frequently used to convey the popularity of an artist or groups of artists. Often, a recording act will be remembered by its "number ones", those of their albums that outperformed all others during at least one week. The chart grew from a weekly top 10 list in 1956 to become a top 200 in May 1967, and acquired its present title in March 1992. Its previous names include the Billboard Top LPs (1961–72), Billboard Top LPs & Tape (1972–84), Billboard Top 200 Albums (1984–85) and Billboard Top Pop Albums.

Track listing

All songs written by Richard Thompson, except "So Ben Mi Ch'a Bon Temp" (written by Vecchi, arranged by Thompson):

  1. "Stony Ground" - 4:42
  2. "Salford Sunday" - 4:08
  3. "Sally B" - 4:04
  4. "Stuck On The Treadmill" - 4:20
  5. "My Enemy" - 5:37
  6. "Good Things Happen To Bad People" - 5:21
  7. "Where's Home" - 3:30
  8. "Another Small Thing In Her Favour" - 5:06
  9. "Straight And Narrow" - 4:13
  10. "The Snow Goose" - 5:06
  11. "Saving The Good Stuff For You" - 3:54

A Deluxe Edition with a bonus disc was also made available. The bonus disc contains four outtakes from the 'Electric' sessions and three additional tracks from other Thompson albums

  1. "Will You Dance, Charlie Boy"
  2. "I Found A Stray"
  3. "The Rival"
  4. "The Tic-Tac Man"
  5. "Auldie Riggs" (from Cabaret Of Souls )
  6. "Auldie Riggs Dance" (from Cabaret Of Souls)
  7. "So Ben Mi Ch'a Bon Tempo" (from 1000 Years of Popular Music )

Personnel

Musical
Guitar fretted string instrument

The guitar is a fretted musical instrument that usually has six strings. It is typically played with both hands by strumming or plucking the strings with either a guitar pick or the finger(s)/fingernails of one hand, while simultaneously fretting with the fingers of the other hand. The sound of the vibrating strings is projected either acoustically, by means of the hollow chamber of the guitar, or through an electrical amplifier and a speaker.

Mandolin musical instrument in the lute family (plucked, or strummed)

A mandolin is a stringed musical instrument in the lute family and is usually plucked with a plectrum or "pick". It commonly has four courses of doubled metal strings tuned in unison, although five and six course versions also exist. The courses are normally tuned in a succession of perfect fifths. It is the soprano member of a family that includes the mandola, octave mandolin, mandocello and mandobass.

Hurdy-gurdy musical instrument

The hurdy-gurdy is a stringed instrument that produces sound by a hand crank-turned, rosined wheel rubbing against the strings. The wheel functions much like a violin bow, and single notes played on the instrument sound similar to those of a violin. Melodies are played on a keyboard that presses tangents—small wedges, typically made of wood—against one or more of the strings to change their pitch. Like most other acoustic stringed instruments, it has a sound board and hollow cavity to make the vibration of the strings audible.

Technical

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References

  1. ↑ Archived 22 July 2013 at the Wayback Machine .
  2. ↑ "RICHARD THOMPSON | Official Charts Company". Officialcharts.com. 2015-04-19. Retrieved 2015-04-23.
  3. ↑ "Richard Thompson - Chart history". Billboard.com. Retrieved 2015-04-23.
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