Teddy-Thompson-Discography

Teddy is an artist we should all know for the tender sadness of his songs and his plaintive delivery. One listens and your heart is slain.

Most know that Teddy comes from a noble musical family bloodline, the son of folk legends Richard and Linda Thompson (Shoot out the Lights). Richard Thompson is renowned for his vocal strength and most especially acoustic guitar picking acumen. Linda’s voice is well-loved for its beauty and potency. Teddy has inherited gifts from both but adds his own Roy Orbison-esque vocal octave range and rockabilly vibrato.  Teddy has the songwriting skills to capture the romantic longing and the nuance of modern love affairs. Included in this article are some of our most beloved Teddy tracks.   Teddy Thompson is skilled enough to cover others like Leonard Cohen, yet his penned songs is a very good start.  A careful review of Teddy’s releases, places the album,  “A Piece of What you need,  in our sonic sweet spot. Lyrically, A Piece of What You Need delivers from the first track to the last.

 

Teddy Thompson’s vocal range

According to our database, the vocal range of this artist is:

A2 – E4

Song with the LOWEST pitch:
I Don’t Want To Say Goodbye (A2-E4)

Song with the HIGHEST pitch:
I Don’t Want To Say Goodbye (A2-E4)

 

A Piece of What You Need<br />
Teddy Thompson  Format: Audio CD

A Piece of What You Need Teddy Thompson Format: Audio CD

 

 

I think this album is my pop record but I’m not really sure because I’m not sure what that word means anymore.” – Teddy Thompson

No matter how you classify it, Thompson’s third release on Verve Forecast is a gem! Produced by Marius de Vries (Bjork, Madonna, Rufus Wainwright) Piece is a sonically brilliant recording of upbeat songs filled with Teddy’s impassioned vocals and clever but heartfelt lyrics.

About the Artist
“This is a happy record,” Teddy Thompson says of his new Verve Forecast release A Piece of What You Need. “Well, maybe not happy, but upbeat. Actually, maybe not upbeat, but it does have some up-tempo songs! Anyway, it’s as close as I’ve gotten to making the record I’ve always wanted to make.”

Indeed, happy or not, A Piece of What You Need – Thompson’s fourth album overall and his third for Verve – is the London-born, New York-based artist’s most ambitious and accomplished effort to date, showcasing his formidable vocal, songwriting and guitar talents while venturing into rewarding new musical and lyrical territory.

Thompson’s trademark blend of catchy songcraft, pensive emotional insight and good-natured black humor is present on such new tunes as “In My Arms,” “What’s This?!!,” “Don’t Know What I Was Thinking” and the bittersweetly fatalistic “Turning the Gun On Myself.” The album’s effortless pop sensibility is matched by a playful sonic palette that incorporates such aural surprises as the careening brass band on “Can’t Sing Straight” and “One of These Days,” or the Hitchcockian orchestral rushes that haunt the cinematic “Jonathan’s Book.”

Although Thompson co-produced his last two albums Separate Ways and Up Close & Down Low, for A Piece of What You Need he made it a point to recruit an outside producer to help realize his expansive musical agenda. The man for the job was Marius de Vries, whose extensive production resume includes work with acts as diverse as Bjork, Madonna, David Gray and Rufus Wainwright.

“I knew that I wanted this one to be more adventurous, with strong, solid rhythm tracks and beautiful airy touches to support the songs,” Thompson explains, adding, “Marius gets all the credit for that. He’s taken the arrangements up a notch. There was nothing off-limits, nothing that was too weird or too difficult. I could tell him that I wanted something to sound like fairies dancing around a maypole, and he’d know what button to push to get that. We were able to add a lot more layers, without overshadowing the songs themselves.”

Thompson, son of folk-rock legends Richard and Linda Thompson, developed his musical drive early in life and launched his first band while still in his early teens. By the time he released his self-titled solo debut in 2000, he’d served a stint in his father’s touring band and contributed guitar and vocals to his dad’s albums You? Me? Us? and Mock Tudor. He subsequently co-produced and played on his mother’s 2002 comeback disc Fashionably Late, and toured as a member of Rosanne Cash’s backing band.

After signing with Verve, he released his widely acclaimed 2006 sophomore album Separate Ways, which demonstrated how much his songwriting, performing and record-making skills had evolved since his debut. It was followed in 2007 by Up Front & Down Low, a collection of personally charged readings of classic American country songs that demonstrated Thompson’s increased assurance as a performer and interpreter.

“My first record was made in two weeks, and I had no idea what I was doing,” Thompson states. “Separate Ways was done over a long period of time in bits and pieces. And Upfront & Down Low was done quickly and was intentionally free-swinging and loose. With the new one, we put a lot of time and effort into it, but we made it pretty quickly, because we had a plan and did a lot of preparation and pre-production. Because of that, it feels more like a complete package to me.

“But it was stressful in other ways,” he adds, ‘because I went into making this record without having finished a lot of the songs, which is something I’ve never done before. I’d be out on tour, sitting in a hotel room in Canada, pulling my hair out and trying to think of a rhyme for antediluvian. In some cases the songs ended up taking a different shape because of that, and they developed in interesting ways that they wouldn’t have otherwise.”

A Piece of What You Need is a landmark for an artist whose creative restlessness continues to yield deeply compelling musical results. Thompson’s sense of purpose – and sense of humor – are reflected in the song title that provides the album’s name.

“The song was born from frustration with the state of music,” he explains. “I liked it as an album title because I thought it sounded like an offering, like this record is a small bit of truth. For most people, it’s gonna be an absolutely miniscule piece of what they need. But I’d like to think that I’m contributing some tiny little building block of something worthwhile, rather than just adding to the massive pile of disposable rubbish.”

 

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Teddy Thompson – Separate Ways

 

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Teddy Thompson – Where to go from here

Song
Where To Go From Here (Album Version)
Artist
Teddy Thompson
Licensed to YouTube by
UMG (on behalf of Verve Forecast); ARESA, BMG Rights Management (US), LLC, CMRRA, and 1 Music Rights Societies
Lyrics

The safe lie of the in-between
I never lose but never win
I wait at the edge of life
I want to miss what might surprise
It’s hard to know where to go from here
Hard to know where to go
Time is a waste of me
I’m up at noon for nothing real but I know
Oh, that I’m wasting it
It comes on once, there’s no-repeat
It’s hard to know where to go from here
Hard to know where to go
Turn away, it’s what I choose today
Turn away, is not the same as I give in
It’s hard to know where to go from here
It’s hard to know where to go from here
It is hard to know where to go
Source: LyricFind
Songwriters: Adam Teddy Thompson
Where to Go From Here lyrics © BMG Rights Management

Tonight, especially right at this very moment this is my favorite Teddy track as it does a right good job of capturing my emotional state right at this very moment. I’ve already played it three times as it does a great job of summing up the mood. Do you feel it too? Give it a listen or two and you soon will be in the same place as me. It’s a waltz, of course, your grandmother could dance to. Soon enough, she would be in Teddy Heaven with you.

 

Teddy Thompson
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Teddy Thompson – Brand New (official video)

Official video for Teddy Thompson’s new single, Brand New. The full “Heartbreaker Please” album will be available worldwide on May 29th, 2020. Video directed by JW Ellington

Song
Brand New
Artist
Teddy Thompson
Album
Brand New
Licensed to YouTube by
The Orchard Music (on behalf of Thirty Tigers), and 1 Music Rights Societies

Teddy Thompson IMDB

Teddy Thompson – Separate Ways.

 

Solo acoustic from Bury

Met.Mar 31, 2011

The brilliance of this track.  Shakespeare could not have said it better. Damn.

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Garden Sessions: Teddy Thompson – Brand New April 4th, 2019 Underwater Sunshine Festival

 

Called “one of the most gifted singer-songwriters of his generation,” by The New York Times, singer-songwriter Teddy Thompson is a native Englishman who has adopted New York City as his home; famously the son of singer-songwriters Richard and Linda Thompson, he emigrated to the States almost twenty years ago, barely out of his teens, to embark on a career of his own. He was heavily influenced not by folk music but by such artists as Buddy Holly, Chuck Berry, Elvis Presley, and the Everly Brothers. As NPR reported, “He has said he didn’t listen to any music made after 1959 until he was 16. As a kid, he listened to early rock ‘n’ roll and country music exclusively.” This resulted in a unique voice that is at once rock and country, then pop and folk. While music is in his DNA, Thompson sings with his own voice, a powerfully understated, emotional, echoey croon. (The Guardian) Since arriving in the United States, he has released five albums to critical acclaim and has contributed to many works, including his solo “I Don’t Want to Say Goodbye” and the duet “King of the Road,” with Rufus Wainwright, from the soundtrack to the Golden Globe- and Bafta-winning film Brokeback Mountain. He has also collaborated on projects with Rufus and Martha Wainwright, Jenni Muldaur, and others. Thompson recorded two solo songs for the soundtrack to the Leonard Cohen tribute I’m Your Man: “Tonight Will be Fine” and “The Future.” He also contributed two songs to the album The Songs of Nick Drake: Way to Blue, a retrospective on the late singer. In 2015, Teddy and his family released the album Family, a collaborative project in which each member of the extended family wrote and recorded two songs–from wherever they live. This meant that recording took place from Los Angeles to London, then the final product was produced by Teddy in New York. It was released in early 2015 under the name Thompson. Thompson is based out of New York City, wherein his free time, he performs with his rockabilly cover band, Poundcake. Teddy Thompson is currently recording his sixth solo studio album.

 

 

 

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Music in this video

Song
Heartbreaker Please
Artist
Teddy Thompson
Album
Heartbreaker Please
Licensed to YouTube by
The Orchard Music (on behalf of Thirty Tigers)

Video for the title track of Teddy Thompson’s new album, Heartbreaker Please. The release date is May 8, 2020. Video directed by JW Ellington
 

Transatlantic Sessions 6 2013
Directed by Jerry Douglas and Aly Bain. Recorded at Loch Lomond, Scotland.
House Band: Aly Bain, Jerry Douglas, Russ Barenberg, John Doyle, John McCusker, Matheu Watson, Michael McGoldrick, Donald Shaw, Danny Thompson and James Mackintosh.

Featuring: Mary Chapin Carpenter, Phil Cunningham, Cara Dillon, Julie Fowlis, Andy Irvine, Sam Lakeman, Dónal Lunny, Allan MacDonald, Ewan McLennan, Karen Matheson, Tim O’Brien, Maura O’Connell, Aoife O’Donovan and Teddy Thompson.

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Teddy Thompson (w/Mary Chapin Carpenter): “Don’t Know What I Was Thinking” (UK, 2013)

“Transatlantic Sessions 6” (27 September, 2013)

Teddy Thompson – Don’t know what I was thinking (Transatlantic Sessions, 1 Feb ’13)

 

Teddy Thompson – Don’t know what I was thinking (Transatlantic Sessions, Celtic Connections, 1 February 2103)

Emily Smith backing him up with vocals and rhythm, and Jerry Douglas on dobro

Teddy Thompson,with Jerry Douglas, Tim O’Brien Delilah

Transatlantic Sessions 6 2013
Directed by Jerry Douglas and Aly Bain. Recorded at Loch Lomond, Scotland.
House Band: Aly Bain, Jerry Douglas, Russ Barenberg, John Doyle, John McCusker, Matheu Watson, Michael McGoldrick, Donald Shaw, Danny Thompson, and James Mackintosh.

Featuring: Mary Chapin Carpenter, Phil Cunningham, Cara Dillon, Julie Fowlis, Andy Irvine, Sam Lakeman, Dónal Lunny, Allan MacDonald, Ewan McLennan, Karen Matheson, Tim O’Brien, Maura O’Connell, Aoife O’Donovan, and Teddy Thompson.

Teddy Thompson – Parlor Room Home Sessions May 14 8PM ET

Teddy covers Leonard Cohen

 

Nine years ago

I don’t care what anyone thinks, but this ought to be an award-winning song for Teddy. This is better than anything the country has brought for 25 years – or ever, for that matter. Teddy is as good as it gets.

Victor Edwards

Ballad of the Absent Mare

Provided to YouTube by The Orchard Music

Ballad of the Absent Mare · Teddy Thompson

Sincerely, L. Cohen: A Live Celebration of Leonard Cohen

℗ The Royal Potato Family

Released on: 2017-09-21

Teddy rises to a very high-performance level interpreting Leonard Cohen. This is another fine example.

Three years ago

Interesting how raw and untrained Cohen’s voice was on the original album, and as he recorded more, he grew into his voice. Although he was never a great singer, his voice was perfect for his song/poems, and no one quite interpreted his music the way he did. What a genius. R.I.P. Commander Cohen. You are missed. Teddy Thompson’s voice is stunning, and I’ll praise him for tackling many diverse Cohen songs. You can tell the awe and respect he has for the man. Overall a remarkable performance by a prescient musician. Cheers.

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