“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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2011 July: Shoot Out the Lights - Richard and Linda Thompson, 2012 February: I Want To See The Bright Lights Tonight, 2014 March: Videowest 81, 2015 October: Richard & Linda Thompson - Rafferty's Folly (1980), 2015 December: Rumor and Sigh (1991), 2016 March: Hand of Kindness (1983), 2018 December: You? Me? Us? (1996), 2019 July: Across a Crowded Room—Live at Barrymore’s 1985, 2020 July: Bloody Noses (EP 2020)
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