Linda Thompson - Dreams Fly Away: A History Of Linda Thompson

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Free Music Review: Seventy-Eight Minutes of Grace and Elegance
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Solo, Linda Thompson is impressive. Working with her musical accomplice, Richard Thompson, Linda surpasses excellence into the realm of exalted. Linda and Richard are a musical marriage born in heaven: the majesty of their partnership is not one of commonality, but of contrast. Linda's grace and elegance opposes Richard's acerbic and gruff delivery. Their duets are an alluring mix of silk and sandpaper (Walking On A Wire, For Shame Of Doing Wrong).

I'm hesitant when buying CD compilations including previously unreleased material and outtakes. Often, "unreleased" material should have remained unreleased, and "outtakes" were deleted from the original albums for good reason: their inferior recordings. Not so here, executive producer Joe Boyd's selection is first rate: the quality of the material equals or surpasses the "real" stuff. All of Dreams Fly Away is tantalizing, but several tracks are a pleasant surprise. At odds with the expected British Folk-Rock is the lyrical perplexing synth-heavy "Talking Like A Man, " the bouncing Pop of "One Clear Moment", and the country slide-guitar touches on "Dimming Of The Day."

Dreams Fly Away may break your heart (Insult To Injury, Telling Me Lies, I'm A Dreamer), or transport you inside azure clouds of harmonic beauty (I Live Not Where I Love, Sisters, Many Dreams Must Fly Away): seventy-eight minutes of grace and elegance.

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