Dream Attic

Dream Attic
Live album by Richard Thompson
Released	30 August 2010 (UK) 31st August 2010 (USA)
Recorded	Live at various venues, February 2010
Genre	Rock, Folk rock
Length	73:18
Label	Proper Records (UK, Europe)) Shout! Factory (North America)
Producer	Richard Thompson, Simon Tassano
Richard Thompson chronology
Live Warrior (2009) Dream Attic (2010) Live at the BBC (2011)

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
SPIN	[1]

Dream Attic ^[2] is an album by Richard Thompson released in 2010.

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.

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.

On its release, Dream Attic entered the British top 20 for album sales.

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 "de luxe" edition of this album which had Thompson's acoustic demo recordings of the same 13 tracks on a second disc.

Personnel

Musical

• Richard Thompson - vocals, electric guitar
• Pete Zorn - acoustic guitar, flute, saxophone, mandolin, vocals
• Michael Jerome - drums, vocals
• Taras Prodaniuk - electric 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

1. ^ "SPIN Review". http://www.spin.com/reviews/richard-thompson-dream-attic-shout-factory. 
2. ^ Song-o-matic - Dream Attic

Meet the Dream Attic Band and Crew