{"product_id":"thompson-richard-hippies-thugs-heroes-iex-black-splatter-vinyl-607396709915","title":"THOMPSON,RICHARD - HIPPIES THUGS \u0026 HEROES (IEX) BLACK SPLATTER VINYL Vinyl LP","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eExpected: 10\/16\/26\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\n  Sixty years into a career that began with Fairport Convention and has spanned decades as one of rock's most acclaimed\n  singer-songwriters, Richard Thompson is still chasing surprise. On \n  \u003cem\u003eHippies, Thugs and Heroes\u003c\/em\u003e\n  , he lets his subconscious take the wheel, pulling from a cast of old friends, false gurus, former selves, and\n  invented characters who insisted on having their stories told.\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\n  The result is an album that refuses to sit still. It opens with the bright, Byrds-inspired jangle of \"The Sorcerer's\n  Apprentice\" — a song rooted in Thompson's own history with 1970s spiritual movements and the complicated pull of\n  charismatic leaders — before swinging into the rowdy \"Everybody's Stealing\" and landing on the bluesy closer\n  \"Stringer.\" Along the way, \"Cocaine Walking, Booze Talking\" delivers some of his most inventive guitar work yet, a\n  raw-nerve build into a splintered, psychedelic solo that captures a hardscrabble cast of London strivers and\n  connivers.\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\n  Recorded live with his longtime band — Taras Prodaniuk on bass, Michael Jerome on drums, David Mansfield on guitar and\n  fiddle, and wife Zara Phillips on backing vocals — at Hobosound Studio in Weehawken, NJ, the sessions moved fast,\n  often in just two to four takes. But the songwriting itself runs deep: more elaborate home demos gave Thompson's own\n  musical identity a stronger hold on the final record, resulting in an album he describes as \"less them and more me.\"\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\n  What emerges is a spiritual inquiry disguised as a rock record — a meditation on the towers we build and the ruin that\n  follows when we invest in them too completely. Thompson doesn't fully understand every song here, and that's exactly\n  the point. \n  \u003cem\u003eHippies, Thugs and Heroes\u003c\/em\u003e\n   is proof that after sixty years, the joy of not knowing where a song will take you hasn't faded one bit.\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTracks:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eSide A:\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003col\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eSorcerer's Apprentice\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eCocaine Walking, Booze Talking\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003ePauper's Grave\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eUnsung Hero\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eSide B:\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003col\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eMake Believe You Don't Know Me\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eShe Burns It All\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eEverybody's Stealing\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eThe Soul in Me\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eSide C:\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003col\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003ePipe Dreams\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eThe Big Smoke\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eStringer\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eSiren\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eSide D:\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBlank\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\n  \u003cstrong\u003eLabel:\u003c\/strong\u003e\n  New West\n\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Experience Vinyl Preorder","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52661137768733,"sku":"NEWW7099IE.1","price":38.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2236\/3463\/files\/NWLP7099IE-1__33267.jpg?v=1785434240","url":"https:\/\/experiencevinyl.com\/products\/thompson-richard-hippies-thugs-heroes-iex-black-splatter-vinyl-607396709915","provider":"Experience Vinyl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}