Dream Attic

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Field	Value
name	Dream Attic
type	Live
artist	Richard Thompson
cover	album_dreamAttic_cover.jpg
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 (UK, Europe)
Shout! Factory (North America)
producer	Richard Thompson, Simon Tassano
prev_title	Live Warrior
prev_year	2009
next_title	Live at the BBC
next_year	2011
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Dream Attic is a live album by British folk rock musician 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 United States in February 2010. Each night's first set presented thirteen new songs, played live, in the sequence they would soon have on the album.

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

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:

"The Money Shuffle" – 5:57
"Among The Gorse, Among The Grey " – 3:57
"Haul Me Up" – 4:51
"Burning Man" – 5:39
"Here Comes Geordie" – 3:28
"Demons In Her Dancing Shoes" – 5:38
"Crimescene" – 6:58
"Big Sun Falling In The River" – 5:27
"Stumble On" – 6:04
"Sidney Wells" – 7:34
"A Brother Slips Away" – 4:41
"Bad Again" – 5:25
"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

Richard Thompson – vocals, electric guitar
Pete Zorn – acoustic guitar, flute, saxophone, mandolin, vocals
Michael Jerome – drums, vocals
Taras Prodaniuk – bass guitar, vocals
Joel Zifkin – electric violin, mandolin, vocals

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

"Dream Attic by Richard Thompson". Metacritic.
(16 August 2010). "SPIN Review".
Larkin, Colin. (2007). "Encyclopedia of Popular Music". [[Oxford University Press]].
"Releases: Richard Thompson – Dream Attic – Silent Way".
"Official list of the 53rd Grammy nominees, announced December 2010".
"Billboard 200 for the week of September 18, 2010".
"New Releases Now | Richard Thompson, Live at Celtic Connection…".

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