Richard Thompson: Electric [Deluxe]

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The title may be Electric--and, to be sure, it contains no shortage of the unfettered Celtic quirkiness that's garnered Richard Thompson accolades like "the best electric guitarist since m: Jimi Hendrix" (Scott Timberg, L.A. Times)--but that doesn't mean there's a paradigm shift going on in the British singer/songwriter's overall modus operandi. Instead, what Thompson does, as he's largely been doing since he first went solo in 1971, is deliver another consistently fine set of original material, playing with a core trio that's been working with him, for the most part, since 2003's The Old Kit Bag (Cooking Vinyl) in the case of drummer Michael Jerome and, for bassist Taras Prodaniuk, 2007's Sweet Warrior (Shout! Factory)...

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