They just announced that Pat Benetar and Duran Duran are going to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. And Richard Thompson will probably never make it. The world makes no sense!

I just learned that later this summer, Sir Richard Thompson is playing a free twilight show in a park, not five miles from my house. How cool is that?!

Matty groves is English

Sandy Denny had the most beautiful voice, and it`s great that Richard keeps her name alive- he is such a fantastic player and writer- a great wit as well.

Sounds like there's 2 people playing

Loved Fairport Convention. Nobody can sing like Sandy Denny!

The most complete electric/acoustic crossover player ... a monster.

Fantastic solo rendition by Richard - easily the best I have heard solo, as you might expect. An absolute delilght to hear him doing it. Matty Groves and it variants (e.g. Little Musgrave) almost certainly originate the North of England, not in Scotland (as you imply), but, as hecorrectly says, it dates from the 1500s, although the first published versions date from the 17th century. Oh, and Fairport Convention wasn't 'my band', as he well knows. Formed jointly by RT, Simon Nicol and Ashley Hutchings (and named after Simon's parents' house). The traditional repertoire was, of course, introduced to the band primarily by the late Sandy Denny. Brilliant job by shelly570 getting this up on KZfaq - a little gem.

The song was a 10 but the picking kicked it out of the ballpark!! One of my favorite songs made even better!

Always wanted to see a full music video matched to this song. It lends itself.

Love this song & this rendition is tied for the top 3 best of the dozen,at leasr, that I've come across.

So many great versions by American and U.K. musicians...lovely Sandy's is my favorite.

Amen to Paul's description below. Simply a monster.

Heard Pentangle perform this in Belfast in about 1965 or 6. Loved it then, love it now. Someone mentioned Little Musgrave. Much as I love Christy Moore and all his work, for me Little Musgrave doesn't begin to compare with this.

Big fan of Richard Thompson. Treat to find his new version here. I am most familiar with the Joan Baez one. They seem quite different. I'll have to take some time and compare the two as well as the old Fairport ones.

Ooh, that was stellar

A big fuckin’ WOW!

Perfect

I used to get into that alt tuning stuff, but got tired of replacing broken strings. You can be as expressive as you ever need in standard tuning. But it does sound great.

Finewine. Sir Richard, stop by the Northbay when you can.