Mirror Blue - Richard Thompson (1994)

 
Richard Thompson’s superb new album, Mirror Blue, boasts no bold forays or shocking twists, only the same fervid but stringently unsentimental writing and musicianship that has always distinguished this seminal folk rocker’s best work.Like Rumor and Sigh (1991), Blue sounds contemporary without self-consciously striving to be hip. ... As usual, though, Thompson is at his most affecting when in a pensive, rueful mode. On a gorgeous folk ballad called ‘Beeswing,’ he recalls a youthful fling with a woman ‘so fine a breath of air would blow her away.’  On the sensuous ‘Mingus Eyes,’ he admits, ‘Never had the squint of James Dean/Or the Stanislavsky tears’ — although the typically sublime guitar work with which Thompson accompanies this lament, knotty and darkly passionate, rivals either of those assets. But Thompson saves the most devastating track for last. ...”

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