Richard Thompson - Persuasion - Non-Album Acoustic Tracks (2000-2001)

It's been a while since I've posted any Richard Thompson music, but I still have tons more to share. So here's the next one. As an aside, a few weeks ago, a new box set of Richard and Linda Thompson music was officially released, called "Hard Luck Stories." I highly recommend it.

This is both a stray tracks album and an all-acoustic one. Only three of the performances have been officially released. 

The first three songs are all humorous in nature. (Someday, I'd like to post an album of all his comedy songs, if I can find enough. If people have suggestions on which songs to include for that, please let me know.) The first song, "I Agree with Pat Metheny," It's Thompson's take on an essay famous jazz musician Pat Metheny wrote about another famous jazz musician, Kenny G. You can read that here:

https://web.archive.org/web/20080205170757/http://www.jazzoasis.com/methenyonkennyg.htm

Another song of note here is "Persuasion." Thompson originally wrote this as an instrumental. That version was released on a movie soundtrack in 1991. But for some reason Tim Finn of Crowded House decided he liked it and wrote lyrics for it. He put his version of that on his 1993 solo album. Thompson finally released his version with Finn's lyrics added for a 2000 greatest hits album. Since then, he's performed it often and it has become one of his best known songs.

"Eight Miles High" is a cover of the famous Byrds song, with Roger McGuinn of the Byrds helping out. "She Belongs to Me" is by Bob Dylan. "Hamlet (Dog Eat Dog in Denmark)" is also a cover, which I believe is from a 1940s musical.

The album is rather short at only 35 minutes if you don't include the bonus track, but that's how things clustered together chronologically. 

Besides, I figure most people will enjoy the bonus track and keep it It's a version of possibly his most famous song, "1952 Vincent Black Lightning." But this is a special version in that he sang some extra verses I think for this one performance only. If I recall from the bootleg, he was inspired to do that because an actual 1952 Vincent Black Lightning motorcycle was on stage for the show. The only reason the song is a bonus track is because the song quality isn't as good as the rest of the songs. But it's still decent.

01 I Agree with Pat Metheny (Richard Thompson)
02 Hamlet [Dog Eat Dog in Denmark] (Richard Thompson)
03 My Daddy Is a Mummy (Richard Thompson)
04 Eight Miles High (Richard Thompson & Roger McGuinn)
05 Mr. Rebound (Richard Thompson)
06 She Belongs to Me (Richard Thompson)
07 Gethsemane (Richard Thompson)
08 Outside of the Inside (Richard Thompson)
09 Persuasion (Richard Thompson)

1952 Vincent Black Lightning [Extra Verses Version] (Richard Thompson)

https://www.upload.ee/files/15270960/RichrdT_2000-2001_PrsuasionAcoustc_atse.zip.html

The cover art photo of Thompson comes from his appearance at a tribute concert to Joni Mitchell in 2000.