RICHARD THOMPSON

ELECTRIC

BRAND NEW ALBUM ARRIVES FEBRUARY 11^th 2013

FULL UK TOUR IN FEBRUARY 2013

Declared by Rolling Stone as one of the Top 20 Guitarists Of All Time and considered one of the UK’s most outstanding songwriters, musician Richard Thompson returns with a brand new, guitar driven record titled ELECTRIC for Proper Records on Monday, February 11th. Richard’s Electric Trio will be taking to the road for a major UK tour on Wednesday February 20th and will tour the USA starting in March. Full tour details for the UK are below. Tickets are on sale in the UK starting 10am Friday, Nov. 9, 2012!

FULL TOUR INFORMATION

Wed 20 Feb CARDIFF St David’s Hall

stdavidshallcardiff.co.uk | 029 2087 8444

Thu 21 Feb BIRMINGHAM Symphony Hall

thsh.co.uk |0121 345 0600

Fri 22 Feb BRIGHTON Dome

brightondome.org | 01273 709 709

Sat 23 Feb BRISTOL Colston Hall

colstonhall.org | 0117 922 3686

Sun 24 Feb CAMBRIDGE Corn Exchange

cornex.co.uk | 01223 357851

Mon 25 Feb LONDON 02 Shepherd’s Bush Empire

o2shepherdsbushempire.co.uk | 0844 477 2000

Thu 28 Feb EDINBURGH Usher Hall

usherhall.co.uk | 0131 228 1155

Fri 1 Mar LIVERPOOL Philharmonic Hall

liverpoolphil.com | 0151 709 3789

Sat 2 Mar SHEFFIELD City Hall

sheffieldcityhall.co.uk | 0114 2 789 789

Sun 3 Mar GATESHEAD The Sage Gateshead

thesagegateshead.org | 0191 443 4661

Wed 6 Mar NOTTINGHAM Royal Concert Hall

trch.co.uk | 0115 989 5555

Thu 7 Mar BEXHILL DE La Warr Pavilion

dlwp.com | 01424 229 111

Fri 8 Mar BASINGSTOKE Anvil

anvilarts.org.uk | 01256 844244

Sun 10 March SALFORD The Lowry

thelowry.com | 0843 208 6000

All prices are subject to booking fees

MORE ABOUT THE NEW RECORD

After taking the bold step of recording his last album of new songs live, when it came to recording ELECTRIC, Thompson turned to Buddy Miller (Robert Plant’s Band Of Joy, Solomon Burke, Emmylou Harris, Patty Griffin) to produce, recording at Miller’s home studio in Nashville, TN. Miller who himself is renowned for his guitar skills recently told Rolling Stone: “I played along on the record, playing rhythm guitar for him, and I got a two-week guitar lesson while he camped out in my house.” The record was recorded as an electric trio with Thompson, drummer Michael Jerome and bassist Taras Prodaniuk, who both sing background vocals. Jerome and Prodaniuk formed part of the band which recorded and toured the UK Top Twenty album DREAM ATTIC, released in August 2010.

They make up the trio, with Thompson, on his forthcoming UK dates, his first extensive tour in two years.

Guests on ELECTRIC include the legendary Alison Krauss who joins Thompson on “The Snow Goose”, while English singer-songwriter Siobhan Maher Kennedy (formerly with River City People and now resident in Nashville) adds vocals on several tracks as well. Fiddle great Stuart Duncan also plays on the record; one of America’s leading bluegrass musicians he played on recent albums by Robert Plant/Alison Krauss and Elvis Costello and will be familiar in the UK from BBC4’s Transatlantic Sessions.

Richard Thompson himself commented that: “We did it ridiculously quickly. But it sounds great. It turned out surprisingly funky, sort of a new genre – folk-funk. It’s quite snappy, somewhere between Judy Collins and Bootsy Collins.”

ELECTRIC will be released as a Standard CD, Deluxe two–disc set and on 180 gram vinyl.

TRACK LISTING

1. Stony Ground

2. Salford Sunday

3. Sally B

4. Stuck on the Treadmill

5. My Enemy

6. Good Things Happen To Bad People

7. Where’s Home?

8. Another Small Thing In her Favour

9. Straight and Narrow

10. The Snow Goose

11. Saving The Good Stuff For You

Recipient of a BBC Lifetime Achievement Award, Mojo’s Les Paul Award and curator of the prestigious Meltdown Festival at the Southbank in 2010, Thompson was most recently honoured with a Lifetime Achievement Award for Songwriting by the Americana Music Association.

ELECTRIC was recorded earlier this year, 2012 marking the fortieth anniversary of Richard Thompson’s debut solo album, HENRY THE HUMAN FLY. Thompson has now released some forty albums, played on countless other classic recordings, and written more than 400 songs, some of which have been covered by R.E.M., Robert Plant, Elvis Costello, The Futureheads, Bonnie Raitt, Dinosaur Jr., Linda Ronstadt, Los Lobos, and many more.

Rolling Stone has hailed him as “a perennial dark horse contender for the title of greatest living rock guitarist.” The Independent recently described him as “probably the best guitarist this country has produced, an utterly sui generis talent…”

Thompson says of his fellow trio members: “Michael Jerome has been with me for about 12 years. He’s actually from Texas; he is a great musician, able to respond to anything that’s put in front of him. Taras Prodaniuk worked a lot with Dwight Yoakam, and more recently with Lucinda Williams. His roots may be in country music, but he’s another extremely gifted and versatile musician.”

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