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Richard Thompson - 1000 Years of Popular Music (2 CD & 1 DVD Set)

Artist: Richard Thompson
Publisher: Cooking Vinyl

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    Richard Thompson - guitar & vocals Michael Jerome - percussion Judith Owen - vocals The idea for this project came from Playboy Magazine - I was asked to submit a list, in late 1999, of the ten greatest songs of the Millenium. Hah! I thought, hypocrites - they don't mean millennium, they mean twenty years - I'll call their bluff and do a real thousand-year selection. My list was similar to the choices here on this CD, starting in about 1068, and winding slowly up to 2001. That they failed to print my list among others submitted by rock's luminaries, is but a slight wound - it gave me the idea for this show, which has been performed occasionally, and will hopefully receive a few more airings. The idea is that Popular Music comes in many forms, through many ages, and as older forms get superceded, sometimes the baby is thrown out with the bathwater - great ideas, tunes, rhythms, styles, get left in the dust of history, so let's have a look at what's back there, and see if still does the trick. I am unqualified to sing 98% of the material here, but me having a go could be considered part of the fun. Also, trying to render an Arthur Sullivan orchestration with acoustic guitar and snare drum is pretty desperate stuff, but may, at a stretch, be thought charming. What appears on this CD is a performance, rather than a chronological, distillation of several different shows - hence some gaps in the 17th and 18th centuries, and too much weight on Music Hall and Rock & Roll - we just felt that some performances weren't quite captured - perhaps on Part Two?

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  • Theme: Box Sets (Audio Only), Color, Concerts, English, Folk Music / General, Folk-Rock, Guitar, Music, Nostalgic, Percussion, Performance, Pop, Pop/Rock Music, Rock, Rock/Pop, Traditional Folk, USA, Vocal Music, Vocals, Vocals (Background)
  • Release Date: June 27, 2006
  • Publisher: Cooking Vinyl
  • Artists: Richard Thompson
  • Format: Live

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  • ASIN: B000EHQ7I8
  • Item can be gift wrapped.

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