{"id":225,"date":"2007-06-22T10:19:18","date_gmt":"2007-06-22T14:19:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jonsobel.com\/?p=225"},"modified":"2007-06-22T19:18:37","modified_gmt":"2007-06-22T23:18:37","slug":"richard-thompson-always-takes-the-weather-with-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jonsobel.com\/?p=225","title":{"rendered":"Richard Thompson Always Takes the Weather With Him"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.richardthompson-music.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Richard Thompson<\/a> brought thunder, lightning, and an on-and-off downpour to Brooklyn last night and we got soaked, but we still had a great time at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brooklynx.org\/celebrate\/default.asp\" target=\"_blank\">Celebrate Brooklyn<\/a> concert.  The Prospect Park bandshell has an amazing sound system.  I could understand almost all the lyrics, even of the songs I&#8217;d never heard, which was most of them (there were a lot of new songs in the set).  But Richard and his band did play &#8220;I Want to See the Bright Lights Tonight&#8221; and &#8220;Wall of Death,&#8221; and he make sure to mesmerize the crowd with &#8220;1952 Vincent Black Lightning.&#8221;  His son Teddy joined him for a gorgeous rendition of &#8220;Persuasion.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Back on the lawn, girls ran around with glow rings until they fell down.  Grown-up people were wet but happy.  A few tall, quiet men stood around wearing Richard Thompson hats.  I tried to use my beach chair as an umbrella.  Meg told us all about how Pete Seeger had given her a cookie at the Clearwater Festival.  Starbucks provided tiny cups of free coffee, and beer (not free) abounded.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/30536365@N00\/589447115\/\" title=\"Photo Sharing\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm2.static.flickr.com\/1162\/589447115_4932c8d71d.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"richardthompson_06212007\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Richard Thompson and his band at the Prospect Park Bandshell in Brooklyn, 6\/22\/2007.  Photo by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.megbraun.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Meg Braun<\/a>.<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Richard Thompson brought thunder, lightning, and an on-and-off downpour to Brooklyn last night and we got soaked, but we still had a great time at the Celebrate Brooklyn concert. The Prospect Park bandshell has an amazing sound system. I could understand almost all the lyrics, even of the songs I&#8217;d never heard, which was most &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jonsobel.com\/?p=225\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Richard Thompson Always Takes the Weather With Him&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","category-new-york-city"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonsobel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonsobel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonsobel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonsobel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonsobel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=225"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jonsobel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonsobel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonsobel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonsobel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}