Dream Attic
Live album by
Richard Thompson
Released30 August 2010 (UK)
31 August 2010 (USA)
RecordedLive at various venues, February 2010
GenreRock, Folk rock
Length73:18
LabelProper (UK, Europe)
Shout! Factory (North America)
ProducerRichard Thompson, Simon Tassano
Richard Thompson chronology
Live Warrior
(2009)		 Dream Attic
(2010)		 Live at the BBC
(2011)
Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic77/100[1]
Review scores
SourceRating
SPIN[2]
Encyclopedia of Popular Music[3]

Dream Attic [4] is a live album by Richard Thompson released in 2010, on Proper Records. While not a studio album, it is Thompson's fourteenth overall full-length album of new original solo material.

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 in February 2010. Each night's first set presented thirteen new songs, played live, in the sequence they would soon have on the album.[5]

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.[6] On its release, Dream Attic entered the British top 20 for album sales, Thompson's first. In the US the album reached No. 83 on the Billboard 200 chart.[7]

All but two of the tracks were also performed as the first half of a January 2011 Glasgow show that was recorded for the 2011 DVD Live at Celtic Connections.

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 "deluxe" edition of this album, with Thompson's acoustic demo recordings of the same 13 tracks on a second disc.

Personnel

Musicians

Technical

  • Simon Tassano – mixing (at Rumiville Studio, Austin, Texas), FOH engineer and tour manager
  • Jim Wilson – mastering (at Airshow Mastering, Boulder, Colorado)
  • Tony Brooke – live recording
  • Russ Cole – monitor engineer and production manager
  • Bobby Eichorn – guitar technician and stage manager

References

  1. ↑ "Dream Attic by Richard Thompson". Metacritic. Retrieved 27 January 2020.
  2. ↑ "SPIN Review".
  3. ↑ Larkin, Colin (2007). Encyclopedia of Popular Music (4th ed.). Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0195313734.
  4. ↑ Song-o-matic – Dream Attic Archived 18 September 2010 at the Wayback Machine
  5. ↑ "Releases: Richard Thompson – Dream Attic – Silent Way".
  6. ↑ "Official list of the 53rd Grammy nominees, announced December 2010".
  7. ↑ "Billboard 200 for the week of September 18, 2010".
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