Track Listing
1. For the Sake of Mary
2. I Can't Wake up to Save My Life
3. Mgb-GT
4. Way That It Shows, The
5. Easy There (Steady Now)
6. King of Bohemia
7. Shane and Dixie
8. Mingus Eyes
9. I Ride in Your Slipstream
10. Beeswing
11. Fast Food
12. Mascara Tears
13. Taking My Business Elsewhere
| Details | | Playing Time: | 55 min. | | Producer: | Mitchell Froom | | Distributor: | EMI Music Distribution | | Recording Type: | Studio | | Recording Mode: | Stereo | | SPAR Code: | n/a |
Album Notes
Personnel: Richard Thompson (vocals, guitar, mandolin), Tom McConville (fiddle), Martin Dunn (flute), Phil Pickett (shawms), John Kirkpatrick (accordion, concertinas), Alistair Anderson (English concertina, Northumbrian pipes), Mitchell Froom (keyboards), Danny Thompson (acoustic bass), Jerry Scheff (bass, acoustic bass), Pete Thomas (drums, percussion), Christine Collister, Michael Parker (background vocals).
Recorded at The Sound Factory, Los Angeles, California and Rak Studios, London, England.
All songs written by Richard Thompson.
Though much of MIRROR BLUE was recorded live in the studio, producer/keyboardist Mitchell Froom's trademark processed sounds might make you think otherwise, as he tarts up Thompson's folk-rock arrangements with some exotic electronic flavoring. Though Froom's production puts too much icing on the cake for Thompson traditionalists, it never obscures the two essential elements of this or any other Thompson recording; blistering guitar solos and ace songwriting. The former is displayed proudly on tunes like "Mascara Tears" and "The Way That it Shows." The latter is virtually a given, but particular highlights are the delicate acoustic ballad "King of Bohemia" and the "set-'em-up-Joe" scenario of the misery-drenched rumination "Taking My Business Elsewhere."
Editorial Reviews
...Thompson can do no wrong...
Option (08/01/1994)
...another sublime album...life affirming...
Melody Maker (01/15/1994)
3 Stars - Good - ...Richard Thompson appears to have hit one of those patches of blue sky that have from time to time marked his 25-year career....
Q (02/01/1994)
...On MIRROR BLUE, Thompson sounds renewed, unfettered, ready for whatever false promises life can send his way....It is Thompson's guitar that sets the stage--restless electric runs like a pack of Tarot cards shuffled in a thunderstorm...
Spin (03/01/1994)
4 Stars - Excellent - ...boasts the same fervid but stringently unsentimental writing and musicianship that has always distinguished this seminal rocker's best work....
Rolling Stone (03/24/1994)
Included on Stephen Holden's list of the Top 10 Albums Of '94 - ...Taut, stinging dramatic monologues...
New York Times (01/05/1995)
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