| Identifier | 7851709 |
| Created At | Tue May 23 2023 23:54:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time) |
| Reference Number | 0006556692 |
| Status | 1 |
| Media Type | CDR |
| Media Count | 2 |
| Note | An Evening With Richard Thompson
Getty Museum Los Angeles, CA. 10/19/01 Supporting Musicians John Densmore (misc perc), Judith Owens (vo) From the Evening's original Concert Program Notes: ************************************** We had great fun last year-possibly at the expense of the audience - with our show "One Thousand Years Of Popular Music", so I thought something similar might be appropriate this time. Someone paid me the backhanded compliment of declaring that the show did not lack for ambition; I have taken this stinging rebuke somewhat to heart, and this year, in spite of the snappy title, we will limit ourselves to a mere nine hundred years of Western musical history. I feel a kindly service has been performed to the audience in skipping over the heavy moralizing of Saint Godric (11th century), and we commence our odyssey with good old "Anon", working our way up to the latter-day troubadours of the twenty-first century. On our journey, we shall pass through moods blithe and troubled, bawdy and sacred. As I am unqualified to sing 90 percent of the music on show, let me stress here that the songs are intended to be the stars this evening; as fashions change and the baby gets thrown out with the bath water, we forget how appealing some of the old stuff can be. Bear with me this evening if I try to find a few selections that reflect on recent tragedies - for the good of my own heart I need to express some thoughts of patriotism, spiritual uplift, and human values. I hope you will join in as the mood takes you. Best Wishes, Richard Thompson Disc 1 o1 Introduction o2 "Worlds Blis Ne Last" - a 12th Century song in pre-Chaucerian Old English, with Richard on guitar and John on hand percussion; they walked on stage to the beat of the drum and went right into the song, whose lyrics were barely recognizable as English, if that. o3 "So Ben Mi Ca Bon Tempo" - a rather catchy song in medieval Italian by 16th Century composer Orazio Vecchi o4 "Bonnie St. Johnstone" - a genuinely creepy Scottish murder ballad about a woman who gave birth to twins in the forest, murdered them, and was later condemned to hell by the ghosts of her children o5 "When I Am Laid In Earth" - a song by Henry Purcell, sung by Judith o6 "A-Beggin' I Will Go" - described by Richard as an "unbelievably old" song which I actually knew from a Scottish version called "Tae the Beggin' I Will Go" done by The Tannahill Weavers o7 "Blackleg Miner" - a song about strike-breakers from the England's Industrial Age o8 "Shenandoah" - a terrific rendition of an old American favorite of mine Disc 2 o1 "I Live in Trafalgar Square" - a ditty from the English music hall days o2 "Why Have My Loved Ones Gone?" - by Stephen Foster o3 "There Is Beauty In The Bellow Of The Blast" - from "The Mikado", by Gilbert & Sullivan (!), which Richard and Judith sang together (Wes said, "That's a lot more difficult than it sounds", and it sounded pretty damned difficult to me.) o4 "Old Rockin' Chair/ - from Hoagy Carmichael o5 "Orange Coloured Sky" - from Hoagy Carmichael o6 "Hobo Bill's Last Ride" - from Jimmie Rodgers, "The Singing Brakeman" and one of the fathers of country music o7 "Cry Me A River" - a big hit for Julie London in 1955, sung by Judith o8 "The Fool" - from Elvis Presley, but only a snippet thereof o9 "A Legal Matter" - one of the less well-known songs from The Who, written (of course) by Pete Townshend o10 "Tempted" - by Glenn Tilbrook and Chris Difford of Squeeze ("One of my favorite bands of the last 10, 20, 30, 40 years," said Richard) o11 "Kiss" - by The Artist Formerly Known As The Artist Formerly Known as Prince But Now Once Again Known As Prince, to finish up the main set. o12 Richard, John and Judith came back for an encore of "You'll Never Walk Alone", from "Carousel" by Rogers and Hammerstein. |
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Performance
| Richard Thompson 2001-10-19 Getty Center, Los Angeles, CA | |
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| Set 1 | Worldes Bliss Ne Last No Throwe (Trad.)
So Ben Mi C'ha Bon Tempo (Vecchi) Bonnie St. Johnstone (Trad.) When I Am Laid In Earth - Dido's Lament (Purcell) A-Beggin' I Will Go (Trad.) Blackleg Miner (Trad.) Shenandoah (Trad.) (I Live In) Trafalgar Square (Murphy) Why Have My Loved Ones Gone (Foster) There Is Beauty In The Bellow Of The Blast (Gilbert/Sullivan) Old Rockin' Chair (Miller) Orange Coloured Sky (Carmichael) Hobo Bill's Last Ride (MacWilliams & Rogers) Cry Me A River (Hamilton) A Fool (Such As I) (Trader) A Legal Matter (Townshend) Tempted (Difford/Tilbrook) Kiss (Prince) You'll Never Walk Alone (Rodgers/Hammerstein) |
| Set 2 | |
| Set 3 | |
| Comment | 1000 Years Of Popular Music with John Densmore-Percussion Judith Owens-Vocals |