Semi-Detached Mock Tudor

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Semi-Detached Mock Tudor
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Live album by
Released2002
RecordedNovember 1999 in America
Genre Rock
Length75:53
Label Beeswing
Producer Tom Dube
Richard Thompson chronology
Action Packed
(2001)
Semi-Detached Mock Tudor
(2002)
The Old Kit Bag
(2003)
Professional ratings
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Semi-Detached Mock Tudor is a live album by Richard Thompson

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Beginning with the Live at Crawley album in 1995, Richard Thompson had begun issuing high-quality, officially sanctioned live recordings as an alternative to bootleg recordings—products that would provide the artist with revenue and offer better quality to the fans.

Semi-Detached Mock Tudor was recorded on tour to promote Thompson's 1999 album Mock Tudor , and was released in 2002. It was the first release on his own Beeswing label. Thompson has since released several more live albums on this label and marketed them at concerts and via his web site which was launched simultaneously with Semi-Detached Mock Tudor. Many fans consider the performances on Semi-Detached Mock Tudor to be preferable to the "official album".[ citation needed ]

Thompson toured heavily to support and promote what he considered to be a strong album and eight of Semi-Detached Mock Tudor’s 13 tracks are from the then-current Mock Tudor - including Mock Tudor’s opening five-song sequence with which Thompson and his band opened every concert of the 1999 tour.

Track listing

All songs written by Richard Thompson

  1. "Cooksferry Queen"
  2. "Sibella"
  3. "Bathsheba Smiles"
  4. "Two-Faced Love"
  5. "Hard On Me"
  6. "Jennie"
  7. "She Twists The Knife Again"
  8. "Uninhabited Man"
  9. "Walking The Long Miles Home"
  10. "When The Spell Is Broken"
  11. "Crawl Back (Under My Stone)"
  12. "A Man In Need"
  13. "Razor Dance"

Personnel

Cover Photograph © Bob Battersby/Lodestone Publishing Limited

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References

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  1. "Semi-Detached Mock Tudor - Richard Thompson | Songs, Reviews, Credits | AllMusic". AllMusic .
  2. Larkin, Colin (2007). Encyclopedia of Popular Music (4th ed.). Oxford University Press. ISBN   978-0195313734.