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  • Summary: The live album was recorded during Richard Thompson's tour of the West Coast in February, with a majority of the tracks from performances at San Francisco's Great American Music Hall.
  • Record Label: Shout! Factory
  • Genre(s): Singer/Songwriter, Pop/Rock, Contemporary Folk, British Folk-Rock, British Folk
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  1. Positive: 13 out of 16
  2. Mixed: 3 out of 16
  3. Negative: 0 out of 16
  1. Austin Chronicle
    89
    Thompson's never been less than inspiring in concert, but here his singing seems especially urgent, while a few of his guitar leaps will leave you shaking your head in wonderment.
  2. Chicago Tribune
    88
    Coincidental or not, the [live] setting opens things up considerably for Thompson the guitarist, his songs gaining an immediacy and intensity that sometimes gets refined away in his sometimes too-careful studio recordings.
  3. American Songwriter
    60
    If Dream Attic is any indication, recording studios may soon be as irrelevant to Richard Thompson's career as big record companies are.

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  1. Tumbleweed
    8
    Not his best album by far but the musicianship is excellent as usual and I like the clean, unpolished sound of this recording. Itd be nice if RT could go back and rerecord some of his 90s records (which had better songs but were overproduced) in this format.… Expand
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