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Electric (Richard Thompson album)

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Length
  
50:01

Release date
  
4 February 2013

Label
  
Proper Records

Artist
  
Richard Thompson

Producer
  
Buddy Miller

Genres
  
Folk rock, Electric folk

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Released
  
11 February 2013 (UK) 5 February 2013 (USA)

Recorded
  
Buddy Miller's house, May 2012

Similar
  
Richard Thompson albums, Folk rock albums

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

Contents

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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.

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 and number 75 on the Billboard 200, making it the highest charting album of Thompson's career in either country.

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
  • Richard Thompson - vocals, guitar, mandolin, hurdy-gurdy, accordion, electric organ
  • Michael Jerome - drums, vocals
  • Taras Prodaniuk - electric bass guitar, vocals, mandocello
  • Buddy Miller - guitar
  • Siobhan Maher Kennedy - backing vocals on tracks 2, 5, 7, 9 and 11
  • Stuart Duncan - fiddle
  • Alison Krauss - backing vocals on track 10
  • Dennis Crouch - bass
  • Technical
  • Buddy Miller - mixing, production
  • Mike Poole - recording
  • Ray Kennedy - mastering
  • George Ingram - mastering for vinyl edition
  • Songs

    1Stony Ground4:43
    2Salford Sunday4:08
    3Sally B4:04

    References

    Electric (Richard Thompson album) Wikipedia