Richard Thompson - The Old Kit Bag
p. This album is subtitled ‘Unguents, Fig Leaves and Tourniquets for the Soul’, which for me just about says it all. This is Richard Thompson at his brilliant, bitter best. Many of the songs are epic folk ballads for our time, with a great narrative line. ‘A Love You Can’t Survive’ tells the old story of a man who promises to return to his love, but then kills someone in a street fight and has to go on the run, and ends up trying to smuggle a ‘half-ton of charlie’ into New Orleans harbour. The old, old story…
