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Track List:
1. She Never Could Resist A Winding Road
2. Beatnik Walking
3. Patty Don't Put Me Down
4. Broken Doll
5. All Buttoned Up
6. Josephine
7. Long John Silver
8. Pony In The Stable
9. Where's Your Heart
10. No Peace No End
11. Dungeons For Eyes
12. Guitar Heroes



"Some songs, you never finish...you let them lie for 20 years, adding a line, changing a verse," reflects songwriter and guitarist Richard Thompson. "Songs always sound best before you write them, before you get them on paper or into a recording."

Honing his creations ever closer to their initial spark of inception has required a diligent, tireless dedication to his craft of songwriting - and has resulted in an unparalleled career now spanning five decades, from his formative years in seminal folk-rock alchemists Fairport Convention to his acclaimed solo work.

Still, is testament to Thompson's ongoing evolution as a songwriter and performer, and his willingness to continue challenging himself. "By this point," Thompson explains, "I've done about forty albums on my own. I know how to make records. I know the process. But I also fall into my own patterns and habits."


To disrupt potentially stifling habits, Thompson enlisted Wilco's Jeff Tweedy as producer. "It turned out," Thompson adds, acknowledging the risk involved, "to be really good idea. Jeff is musically very sympathetic. Although some of his contributions are probably rather subtle to the listener's ear, they were really interesting and his suggestions were always very pertinent."

Echoes of awe, mixed with a touch of perplexity, invest Richard Thompson's voice as he recalls the sprawling, instrument-littered Chicago rehearsal space where he recorded Still: "It's a two-story loft...they've put a recording studio in the corner of the second floor, but the rest of the space is taken up with hundreds of guitars, basses, keyboards, even arcane sorts of wind instruments and such. It's an insane space. There's a distinct desire to spend a month or so just trying out everything..."