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Released
  
28 May 2007 (UK)

Sweet Warrior(2007)
  
Live Warrior(2009)

Release date
  
28 May 2007

Producer
  
Richard Thompson

Length
  
68:03

Artist
  
Richard Thompson

Label
  
Proper Records

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Recorded
  
October and December 2006 at House of Blues Studio

Genres
  
Rock music, Folk rock, Rock and roll

Similar
  
Richard Thompson albums, Folk rock albums

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Sweet Warrior is the twelfth studio album by Richard Thompson, released in 2007. Thompson financed the recording of this album himself and then licensed the finished album to various labels for distribution. On its release, Sweet Warrior entered Amazon.com's top 20 for music sales.

Contents

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Overview

The track "Dad's Gonna Kill Me" was given an advance release via Thompson's own web site and iTunes. The song was singled out for praise by critics and featured prominently in Thompson's live performances in early 2007. This song's lyrics make extensive use of U.S. military slang (the "Dad" of the title is GI slang for "Baghdad"), and convey the thoughts and feelings of an uneasy U.S. soldier stationed in Iraq. It was subsequently used on the closing montage of the first episode of the third season of Sons of Anarchy.

This advance release also enjoyed airplay on several radio stations and attracted generally favourable comments from the press and advance publicity for the album.

The album received very favourable reviews.

Track listing

All songs written by Richard Thompson:

  1. "Needle and Thread" - 4:43
  2. "I'll Never Give It Up " - 3:22
  3. "Take Care the Road You Choose" - 6:44
  4. "Mr. Stupid" - 3:53
  5. "Dad's Gonna Kill Me" - 5:16
  6. "Poppy-Red" - 4:37
  7. "Bad Monkey" - 5:13
  8. "Francesca" - 5:17
  9. "Too Late to Come Fishing" - 4:36
  10. "Sneaky Boy" - 2:59
  11. "She Sang Angels to Rest" - 3:25
  12. "Johnny's Far Away" - 4:53
  13. "Guns Are the Tongues" - 7:27
  14. "Sunset Song" - 5:38

Bonus tracks on the P-Vine Records release for the Japanese market:

  • "Any Old Body"
  • "Dust and Wine"

    • Personnel

    Musical
  • Richard Thompson - vocals, electric guitar, steel-string acoustic guitar, mandolin, accordion, tin whistle, autoharp, harmonium, hurdy-gurdy, electric organ, handclaps (on 10)
  • Michael Hays - rhythm guitar, electric guitar, acoustic guitar, backing vocals
  • Danny Thompson - double bass
  • Taras Prodaniuk - electric bass guitar
  • Michael Jerome - drums, percussion
  • Judith Owen - backing vocals, handclaps (on 10)
  • Sara Watkins - fiddle (on 5, 12-13)
  • Joe Sublett - tenor saxophone (on 7-8)
  • Joe Buck - first violin (on 11)
  • Al Michaels - second violin (on 11)
  • Novi Ola - viola (on 11)
  • Simon Tassano - handclaps (on 10)
  • Chris Kasych - handclaps (on 10)
    • Technical
  • Doug Tyo - engineer (at House of Blues Studio, Encino, California)
  • Chris Kasych - assistant engineer
  • Simon Tassano - mixing (at Rumiville Studio, Austin, Texas)
  • Jim Wilson - mastering (at Airshow Mastering, Boulder, Colorado)

    • Songs

    1Needle and Thread4:44
    2I'll Never Give It Up3:22
    3Take Care the Road You Choose6:45

    References

    Sweet Warrior Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA


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