{"id":8888,"date":"2013-02-06T15:41:34","date_gmt":"2013-02-06T22:41:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/?p=8888"},"modified":"2013-02-06T15:41:34","modified_gmt":"2013-02-06T22:41:34","slug":"richard-thompson-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/2013\/02\/richard-thompson-2\/","title":{"rendered":"RICHARD THOMPSON"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-8889\" title=\"RICHARD-THOMPSON-M-Review-No24\" src=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/RICHARD-THOMPSON-M-Review-No24.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/RICHARD-THOMPSON-M-Review-No24.jpg 400w, https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/RICHARD-THOMPSON-M-Review-No24-300x187.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/>R<\/strong><strong>ICHARD THOMPSON<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p><strong><em>Electric<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>[New West]<\/p>\n<div>\u00a0Recorded in a few days at producer Buddy Miller\u2019s Nashville home, <em>Electric<\/em> sounds more live than Thompson\u2019s <em>Dream Attic<\/em>(2010), an actual live album. Perhaps it\u2019s because he didn\u2019t overdo it in the studio. Thompson has said that he and his trio banged out the recording with minimal fuss, and the lack of embellishment does these songs good. Fortunately, austerity doesn\u2019t come at the price of substance, and the songwriting, guitar work and vocals boast an abundance of depth and truth. Whether singing plaintively on the midtempo, country-esque \u201cWhere\u2019s Home?\u201d or finding funk in \u201cStuck on the Treadmill,\u201d Thompson showcases an expeditionary spirit in full blossom. Ironically, some of the most stirring moments are acoustic. \u201cThe Snow Goose,\u201d featuring Alison Krauss, is chilling in its directness, while \u201cSaving the Good Stuff for You\u201d uses Stuart Duncan\u2019s fiddle to wring further emotion. That\u2019s classic Thompson: Expect one thing, he\u2019ll deliver the opposite\u2014and you\u2019ll never regret it. \u2013Jeff Tamarkin<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RICHARD THOMPSON Electric [New West] \u00a0Recorded in a few days at producer Buddy Miller\u2019s Nashville home, Electric sounds more live than Thompson\u2019s Dream Attic(2010), an actual live album. Perhaps it\u2019s because he didn\u2019t overdo it in the studio. Thompson has said that he and his trio banged out the recording with minimal fuss, and the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17],"tags":[196,4100,5885,299,2331],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8888"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8888"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8888\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8890,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8888\/revisions\/8890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}