Live In Iowa City, Iowa on June 7, 2013. Richard Thompson thinks of music as a spiritual act and as soon as he picks up a guitar you don’t doubt him. There is a great deal more than flesh and blood and bone about his fingers. Thompson, always the dark horse in those Rolling Stone polls to determine the greatest guitarist of all time, who John Peel liked to call the “best-kept secret in the world of music”, is one of the few artists who derives inspiration from both Sufi mysticism and the back catalogue of George Formby. He has taken lately to playing on stage a not-quite random shuffle from the greatest hits of the past 1,000 years: he channels multitudes.
The Fat Angel Sings 