Rumor and Sigh is an album by Richard Thompson released in 1991.
This album is one of the artistic high-points of Thompson's career, and is his most commercially successful album to date. On its release it garnered the usual critical superlatives given to Thompson but sales were also healthy – helped by Capitol's commitment to promoting an artist they regarded as a prestigious signing and by Rumor And Sigh’s nomination for a Grammy Award for Best Alternative Music Album. The album represents the third collaboration between Thompson and producer Mitchell Froom.
The album shows Thompson's broad stylistic range to good effect and includes what has become one of his best-loved songs – "1952 Vincent Black Lightning". The song is the tale of star-crossed lovers, Red Molly and James, and the motor bike that brings them together. It is set in a traditional English melody and structure and uses, as Thompson describes it, the "bright language" of the ballad tradition. It is played in a style reminiscent of early 20th century American folk music. It is a perennial favourite with his fans and is regularly played by Thompson in concert. Interviewed in the 2003 BBC documentary Solitary Life, Thompson said: "When I was a kid, that was always the exotic bike, that was always the one, the one that you went "ooh, wow". I'd always been looking for English ideas that didn't sound corny, that had some romance to them, and around which you could pin a song. And this song started with a motorcycle, it started with the Vincent. It was a good lodestone around which the song could revolve".
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Rumor and Sigh is an album by Richard Thompson released in 1991.
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Rumor and Sigh is an album by Richard Thompson released in 1991.
This album is one of the artistic high-points of Thompson's career, and is his most commercially successful album to date. On its release it garnered the usual critical superlatives given to Thompson but sales were also healthy – helped by Capitol's commitment to promoting an artist they regarded as a prestigious signing and by Rumor And Sigh’s nomination for a Grammy Award for Best Alternative Music Album. The album represents the third collaboration between Thompson and producer Mitchell Froom.
The album shows Thompson's broad stylistic range to good effect and includes what has become one of his best-loved songs – "1952 Vincent Black Lightning". The song is the tale of star-crossed lovers, Red Molly and James, and the motor bike that brings them together. It is set in a traditional English melody and structure and uses, as Thompson describes it, the "bright language" of the ballad tradition. It is played in a style reminiscent of early 20th century American folk music. It is a perennial favourite with his fans and is regularly played by Thompson in concert. Interviewed in the 2003 BBC documentary Solitary Life, Thompson said: "When I was a kid, that was always the exotic bike, that was always the one, the one that you went "ooh, wow". I'd always been looking for English ideas that didn't sound corny, that had some romance to them, and around which you could pin a song. And this song started with a motorcycle, it started with the Vincent. It was a good lodestone around which the song could revolve".
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