Richard Thompson - Roll Over Vaughn Williams

Fairport's Cropredy Convention 2017

Estamos no último dia do festival e é preciso estar lá cedo, embora o programa comece ao meio-dia, Richard Thompson está das 11h às 12h na tenda a autografar os seus trabalhos e há que aproveitar esta oportunidade que ficou registada em fotografias.

Entre discos que levei e outros que adquiri no local, Richard Thompson assinou os seguintes CD (pena não ter conseguido levar os antigos LP):
- Fairport Convention - Fairport Convention (1968)
- Fairport Convention - Come All Ye: The First Ten Years (7 CD) (2017)
- Morris On - 1972
- Shirley Collins and The Albion Country Band - No Roses (1971)
- Richard Thompson - starring as Henry the Human Fly! (1972)
- Richard Thompson - 1000 Years of Popular Music (2CD/DVD) (2003)
- Richard Thompson - Acoustic Classics II (2017)

Ficamos com "Henry the Human Fly!" ou melhor "Richard Thompson starring as Henry the Human Fly!", o primeiro álbum a solo que data de 1972.

Um dos trabalhos menos considerados na discografia de Richard Thompson, mas ao ouvir-se hoje temos que reconhecer que tem sido injustamente esquecido e nele se encontravam belas canções indicadoras do brilhante percurso que viria a traçar.

Diz Nigel Schofield em "The life and music of Richard Thompson":
"At the start of the 1970s, many of the new solo artists to appear in record racks were making a break from the groups of the 1960s. Richard belongs in that contemporary trend. What sets him is the fact that in many ways his debut album Starring Richard Thompson As Henry the Human Fly is a cornerstone for much of his later career: because it antecipates much of what will follow (and also because it is an album which deserves re-avaluation), we should take time to consider it in depth."

mais adiante:
"The album is rooted in traditional English music. It opens with Roll Over Vaughn Williams, a statement of intent in its very title, wich parodies Chuck Berry by replacing the German Beethoven with the very Englid Vaughn Williams, composer and folksong collector. However, its foundations lie not in the folk-rock of Liege &Lief, with its book-learned ballads, but in the original intent of that album (to create new songs that reworked traditional material) and in session work Richrad had been involved in since leaving Fairport."

Altura para ouvir "Roll Over Vaughn Williams" o tema de abertura.




Richard Thompson - Roll Over Vaughn Williams