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When I went through the entire dozen of cd's I got in the mail today to see wich one I'll start reviewing first, I got a sure answer once the songs from "The Old Kit Bag" hit my blasters. There's all sorts of aggressive and loud and melodic material on my desk right now, still the one I started reviewing first is this sensational (calm, melodic, no aggression - nor distortion for that matter) piece of phono-art. Richard Thompson's experience is not to be overlooked (after all, it's his 25th solo record), still the sounds, the musical compositions I've found on this album are amazing for any songwriter, no matter how much experience they might have. It just leaves you without words: I don't know how I could praise it any better. Ol' psychedelic, folk, and even some small touches of bluegrass are to be heard in the feel of the songs. Calm, somewhat abstract still very life-like music is what Thompson and his musicians produce on this new album. Very clean acoustic guitars and bass, almost inexistent synth, very "unplugged" - very good! Although the influences are all from the beginnings of rock, blues, and lots of folk, this material is nevertheless very modern and very original. Music doesn't really get much more powerful than this - it only gets louder. Although the theme of the songs don't really point in the same direction, you couldn't possibly pretend that they don't come together in one package. "Taken as a whole, Kit Bag is a jumble of brilliant bits" - this is a quote I allowed myself to rip out of the short bigraphy from Cooking Vinyl that came with the CD, and it describes my feelings PERFECTLY. There's not more I could add to it that would give you a better idea of what Richard Thompson's new record is really about. It's simply a very good mixture of folk and other numerous styles of music that make up a very good, very consistent, very well thought out and very well written music - glitters from originality and brilliance.
| Tracklist |
| 1. Gethsemane |
| 2. Jealous Words |
| 3. I'll Tag Along |
| 4. A Love You Can't Survive |
| 5. One Door Opens |
| 6. First Breath |
| 7. Destiny |
| 8. Got No Right |
| 9. Pearly Jim |
| 10. Sight Unseen |
| 11. Outside Of The Inside |
| 12. Happy Days And Auld Lang Sy |
: 58.46
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