Dream Attic is a live album by British folk rock musician Richard Thompson released in 2010, on Proper Records. While not a studio album, it is Thompson's fourteenth overall full-length album of new original solo material.

Overview

Instead of recording new songs in a studio, Thompson made demo recordings, rehearsed the songs with his band and then recorded the new material live on a two-week tour of the Western United States in February 2010. Each night's first set presented thirteen new songs, played live, in the sequence they would soon have on the album. The album was assembled from these live recordings. No studio overdubs were done. Each track on the finished album is an entire, unedited live performance of the song. Dream Attic was nominated for the Best Contemporary Folk Album award in the 53rd Annual Grammy Awards. On its release, the album entered the British top 20 for album sales, Thompson's first. In the US the album reached No. 83 on the Billboard 200 chart. All but two of the tracks were also performed as the first half of a January 2011 Glasgow show that was recorded for the 2011 DVD Live at Celtic Connections.

Track listing

All songs written by Richard Thompson: Proper Records released a "deluxe" edition of this album, with Thompson's acoustic demo recordings of the same 13 tracks on a second disc.

Personnel

Musicians

Technical