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SUMMARY:Teddy Thompson in Concert and Conversation
DESCRIPTION:“Country music has been inescapable for me\, a recurring them
 e\,” says Teddy Thompson. “At the age of\n10 or 11\, that's the first 
 thing I heard where my ears pricked up and I'm like\, 'Oh\, this is music?
  I like\nthis.'”\n\nThe simplicity and emotional intensity of classic co
 untry – à la Hank Williams\, Patsy Cline and George\nJones - has been a
  big part of Thompson's own sound as an artist\, which the New York Times 
 called\n“beautifully finessed” and NPR hailed as “the musical equiva
 lent of an arrow to the heart.”\n\nBack in 2007\, he explored his roots 
 with Up Front and Down Low\, an album of Nashville golden era\nfavorites. 
 And now he's picked up the thread again. Thompson says\, “The pandemic h
 it and all bets\nwere off\, and the question came up\, 'What can we do mus
 ically just for fun? I said\, 'Let's do some\ncountry songs.'” Where the
  earlier record was made with what he calls “an off-the-cuff approach\,
 ” his\nlatest release\, My Love Of Country goes much deeper.\n\n“The g
 oal was to do it in the way that country records I love – mostly from th
 e '60s – were made\,” says\nThompson. “Everything was mapped out\, w
 ith charts and string parts in place. The musicians came in\,\nand we cut 
 the songs the way they did back then. We just blazed through them.”\n\nT
 he results are riveting. Thompson's rich\, honeyed voice responds beautifu
 lly to “A Picture Of Me\n(Without You)\,” “Cryin' Time\,” I Fall T
 o Pieces” and other songs of poetic despondence\, throwing off\nboth spa
 rks and tears without ever seeming showy. You can hear how he's listened d
 eeply to the genre's\nmasters\, absorbing the finer stylistic points of th
 eir influence. But rather than imitate\, he does\nsomething more nuanced a
 nd profound. He makes the material his own\, and makes the familiar sound\
 nnew. “Many of these songs I thought were a bit beyond me when I was you
 nger\, too big to tackle\,”\nTeddy says. “'A Picture Of Me\,' 'You Don
 't Know Me\,' big ballads like that\, which I think maybe take a\nlittle b
 it of maturity to do justice to. I was excited to sing those songs now\, a
 fter knowing them for\ndecades. I think at least I've earned the chance to
  try.”
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