Industry is an album

Album

An album is a collection of recordings, released as a single package on gramophone record, cassette, compact disc, or via digital distribution. The word derives from the Latin word for list .Vinyl LP records have two sides, each comprising one half of the album...

 by Richard Thompson and Danny Thompson

Danny Thompson

Daniel Henry Edward 'Danny' Thompson is an English multi-instrumentalist best known as a double bassist and businessman...

 released in 1997.

The two unrelated Thompsons had known each other since the late sixties, and had toured together throughout the nineties. This long-planned collaborative work was finally recorded in 1997.

The compositions on the album - both Richard Thompson's songs and Danny Thompson's instrumental pieces - portray various impressions of the impact of industry on England, ranging from the birth of the industrial revolution

Industrial Revolution

The Industrial Revolution was a period from the 18th to the 19th century where major changes in agriculture, manufacturing, mining, transportation, and technology had a profound effect on the social, economic and cultural conditions of the times...

 to the closing of the Grimethorpe

Grimethorpe

Grimethorpe is a large village which is part of the metropolitan borough of Barnsley in South Yorkshire, England. It has a population of 1,873....

 Colliery and the effects of unemployment.

Track listing

1. "Chorale" (Danny Thompson)
2. "Sweetheart On The Barricade" (Richard Thompson)
3. "Children In The Dark" (Danny Thompson)
4. "Big Chimney" (Richard Thompson)
5. "Kitty 'Tommy, quick! I can hear clogs going up the street.' Tommy 'Well stick mine out and see if they'll go with 'em!'" (Danny Thompson)
6. "Drifting Through The Days" (Richard Thompson)
7. "Lotteryland" (Richard Thompson)
8. "Pitfalls" (Danny Thompson)
9. "Saboteur" (Richard Thompson)
10. "New Rhythms" (Danny Thompson)
11. "Last Shift" (Richard Thompson)

Personnel

• Richard Thompson : guitar, vocals, acoustic guitar (05)
• Danny Thompson
  Danny Thompson
  Daniel Henry Edward 'Danny' Thompson is an English multi-instrumentalist best known as a double bassist and businessman...
  
   : double bass, bass trombone (02), con legno (09)
• Paul Clarvis
  Paul Clarvis
  Paul Clarvis is an English percussionist, born in Enfield, London, on 9 April 1963.He is renowned for bringing his unique style of music to many genres and can be heard on recordings by Mick Jagger, Elvis Costello, Elton John, Paul McCartney, Annie Lennox, Sting, Bryan Ferry, John Williams, Andy...
  
   : percussion (01,10), drums (10)
• Christine Collister
  Christine Collister
  Christine Collister is a Manx folk, blues and jazz singer-songwriter. She was born and grew up on the Isle of Man and first came to public attention in 1986 as the singer of the theme song for the BBC's television adaptation of Fay Weldon's book The Life and Loves of a She-Devil.Prior to this, in...
  
   : vocals (02,04,07)
• Paul Dunmall
  Paul Dunmall
  Paul Dunmall is a British jazz saxophonist who plays tenor and soprano saxophone as well as the baritone and the more exotic Saxello and the Northumbrian pipes.He has a long discography on the Duns Limited Edition label....
  
   : soprano saxophone (01,02,03,05,06,08,10), tenor saxophone (04-second solo)
• Dylan Fowler : rhythm guitar (02), cor anglais (01,10,11), acoustic guitar (03,08,10), electric guitar (05-solo,10), oboe (06,10,11)
• Peter Knight : violin (01,02,03,05,06,08,10,11)
• Dave Mattacks
  Dave Mattacks
  Dave Mattacks is a rock and folk drummer. Best known for his work with Fairport Convention, Mattacks has also worked both as a session musician, and as a performance artist...
  
  : drums (02,04)
• Tony Roberts : tenor saxophone (01,02,04-first solo,05,06,08-solo,10), harmonium (02), flute (02,03), border pipes (01,10), northumbrian pipes (10), bass clarinet (02,11), baritone saxophone (04), alto flute (11)
• Albert Thompson : first tenor trombone (02)
• Harold Thompson : second tenor trombone (02)