Dream Attic

Dream Attic
Live album by Richard Thompson
Released 30 August 2010 (UK)
31 August 2010 (USA)
Recorded Live at various venues, February 2010
Genre Rock, Folk rock
Length 73:18
Label Proper Records (UK, Europe))
Shout! Factory (North America)
Producer Richard Thompson, Simon Tassano
Richard Thompson chronology

Live Warrior
(2009)		 Dream Attic
(2010)		 Live at the BBC
(2011)
Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
SPIN [1]

Dream Attic [2] is the thirteenth solo album by Richard Thompson released in 2010.

Overview

Instead of recording new songs in a studio, Thompson made demo recordings, rehearsed the songs with his band and then recorded the new material live on a two-week tour of the Western USA.

The album was assembled from these live recordings. No studio overdubs were done. Each track on the finished album is an entire, unedited live performance of the song.

Dream Attic was nominated for the Best Contemporary Folk Album award in the 53rd Annual Grammy Awards.[3] On its release, Dream Attic entered the British top 20 for album sales.

Track listing

All songs written by Richard Thompson:

  1. "The Money Shuffle" - 5:57
  2. "Among The Gorse, Among The Grey " - 3:57
  3. "Haul Me Up" - 4:51
  4. "Burning Man" - 5:39
  5. "Here Comes Geordie" - 3:28
  6. "Demons In Her Dancing Shoes" - 5:38
  7. "Crimescene" - 6:58
  8. "Big Sun Falling In The River" - 5:27
  9. "Stumble On" - 6:04
  10. "Sidney Wells" - 7:34
  11. "A Brother Slips Away" - 4:41
  12. "Bad Again" - 5:25
  13. "If Love Whispers Your Name" - 7:36

Proper Records released a "de luxe" edition of this album which had Thompson's acoustic demo recordings of the same 13 tracks on a second disc.

Personnel

Musical
Technical

References

  1. ↑ "SPIN Review".
  2. ↑ Song-o-matic - Dream Attic
  3. ↑ "Official list of the 53rd Grammy nominees, announced December 2010".

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