Richard Thompson

This is The Other 22 Hours, an exploration of the creative life lived in the in-between.

Today we are talking to the legendary virtuosic guitar player, musician, songwriter, Richard Thompson.

Richard Thompson started his career back in the 1960s with the very important folk band Fairport Convention, which he co-founded.

He has gone on to have a 60-plus year career.

He has released dozens of albums.

And as you can imagine with somebody whose career spans six decades, he shows up with just a wealth of wisdom and experience that he just graciously openly shares with us.

We like to pride the show on being part head and part heart.

part routine part spirituality and approach and richard embodies both sides of that spectrum we get to talk so much about his spiritual practice and his spiritual approach to creativity and his career and the industry but then also he shares some great nuggets on tangible like routines of his whether that's writing to how he prepares on a show day it just checks all the boxes from top to bottom so please enjoy our conversation with the great richard thompson

Actually, I've been in contact with them, and I've been doing a podcast with the members of them.

So I've done the bass, Roger the bass, and Mark the drummer next week, and hopefully Richard the vocalist.

So I'm really excited about that, to hear their perspective.

And actually, you know, we've connected to something through our podcast, which to me is really quite exciting.

It's but it's almost like that, but I

really enjoyed the the upbeatness to it.

I Found some points on here Keith Richards praise PowerEdge as his favorite Wow Wow An iconic legend really.

Yeah um so yeah rock and roll damnation love that down i've got the down payment blues i love that uh give me a bullet and then a bit further on um gone shooting so yeah So, like, Gimme a Bullet, for example, despite the title, it's not simply a song about guns.

your dear old mother has got me.

Buried her down at the church in Kilkelly Her mother and son Richard were there

You don't have to

worry, she died very quickly Remember her in your prayers It's so good to hear that Michael's returning With money he's sure to buy land For the crop has been poor and the people are selling at any price that they can.

But now they're just The Tubbs, and their lead singer is Owen Williams.

And if you listen to his voice, you're going to hear elements of Bob Mould and Richard Thompson, Elvis Costello, Gord Downie, but he's still going to sound unique.

You'll notice similarities, but you'll also realize that he's got something going on that's really unique and very cool.

And his band sounds so great.

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We've got Elvis Costello, Mighty Like a Rose, Jesus Jones, Doubt, R.E.M.' 's Out of Time, Nirvana's Nevermind, and Richard Thompson's Rumor and Sigh.

This is a tough one.

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It's been a long time.

What was so cool is that it told the story of Garfield High School and you guys getting together and obviously playing rock and roll, but also being interested in Ry Cooter and Richard Thompson and other things that were not just typical teenage rock and roll band things.

And then when you rediscovered and embraced traditional Mexican folkloric music, And you made every grandmother in your neighborhood decide that you were their favorite kids.

I mean, that was an amazing trick.

But we've got a few tracks before that one.

And first of those is a new one from Richard Thompson.

He's got a new album coming out, which promises to be a mixture of electric and acoustic songs.

It's called Hippies, Thugs and Heroes.

Well, I'll walk on hot coals in your day, I'll drill me deep with the dentist, torture me, but I just can't be a sorcerer's apprentice.

Some happy day, I'll be fun.

Well, there's a great new track from Richard Thompson.

I look forward to hearing the rest of that new album when it comes out.

It's very good.

Look, I tell you who we should mention before we go, uh, is Richard Thompson.

I mean, we've talked to Richard Thompson-

We've talked to Richard Thompson

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I just looked actually, and that's only been up, the podcast with, with him, for about, I think, just overnight, and it's already had thousands of people looking at it and really enjoying it.

I'm not surprised.

Richard Thompson Day.