Live Warrior is a live album

Live album

A live album is a recording consisting of material recorded during stage performances using remote recording techniques, commonly contrasted with a studio album...

 by Richard Thompson recorded during the 2007 tours of the UK and USA to support the Sweet Warrior

Sweet Warrior (album)

Sweet Warrior is an album by Richard Thompson released in 2007. Thompson financed the recording of this album himself and then licensed the finished album to various labels for distribution. On its release, Sweet Warrior entered Amazon.com's top 20 for music sales.-Overview:The track "Dad's Gonna...

album. It is released on Thompson's boutique Beeswing label.

The album's track selection emphasises material from the then recently released Sweet Warrior

Sweet Warrior (album)

Sweet Warrior is an album by Richard Thompson released in 2007. Thompson financed the recording of this album himself and then licensed the finished album to various labels for distribution. On its release, Sweet Warrior entered Amazon.com's top 20 for music sales.-Overview:The track "Dad's Gonna...

.

Track listing

All songs composed by Richard Thompson except Mingulay Boat Song

Mingulay Boat Song

The "Mingulay Boat Song" was a sea shanty supposed to have been sung by Scottish fishermen as they returned from the Atlantic towards the Isle of Mingulay. However, the Isle of Mingulay was abandoned in 1912, and therefore the song cannot be authentic to the isle's fishing community. The lyrics...

, traditional with additional lyrics by Hugh Robertson

1. "Needle and Thread"
2. "Bad Monkey"
3. "Take Care The Road You Choose"
4. "Dad's Gonna Kill Me"
5. "I Still Dream"
6. "The Wrong Heartbeat"
7. "I'll Never Give It Up"
8. "Mingulay Boat Song
   Mingulay Boat Song
   The "Mingulay Boat Song" was a sea shanty supposed to have been sung by Scottish fishermen as they returned from the Atlantic towards the Isle of Mingulay. However, the Isle of Mingulay was abandoned in 1912, and therefore the song cannot be authentic to the isle's fishing community. The lyrics...
   
   "
9. "Guns Are The Tongues"
10. "A Man In Need"
11. "A Bone Through Her Nose"
12. "Read About Love"
13. "Sunset Song"
14. "Mr. Stupid"

Personnel

Musicians

• Richard Thompson - guitar
  Guitar
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   and vocals
  Singing
  Singing is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice, and augments regular speech by the use of both tonality and rhythm. One who sings is called a singer or vocalist. Singers perform music known as songs that can be sung either with or without accompaniment by musical instruments...
  
  
• Michael Jerome
  Michael Jerome
  Michael Jerome Moore, born in Wichita, Kansas, is an American rock musician and drummer. Jerome is a former member of the Toadies , Course of Empire and James Hall's band Pleasure Club, which was formed in 2002. He was also a member of the Saginaw, Texas band Pop Poppins...
  
   - drums
  Drum kit
  A drum kit is a collection of drums, cymbals and often other percussion instruments, such as cowbells, wood blocks, triangles, chimes, or tambourines, arranged for convenient playing by a single person ....
  
  , percussion and backing vocals
• Danny Thompson
  Danny Thompson
  Daniel Henry Edward 'Danny' Thompson is an English multi-instrumentalist best known as a double bassist and businessman...
  
   - double bass
  Double bass
  The double bass, also called the string bass, upright bass, standup bass or contrabass, is the largest and lowest-pitched bowed string instrument in the modern symphony orchestra, with strings usually tuned to E1, A1, D2 and G2...
  
   (tracks 2, 3, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13)
• Taras Prodaniuk - bass guitar
  Bass guitar
  The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....
  
   (tracks 1, 4, 5, 6, 14)
• Pete Zorn
  Pete Zorn
  Pete Zorn is an American multi-instrumentalist who plays roots music. He is best known as a longstanding member of Richard Thompson's touring band, where he serves as backing vocalist and plays acoustic guitar, mandolin, saxophone, flute, and tin whistle.Although he frequently tours with Thompson,...
  
   - backing vocals, acoustic guitar, mandolin
  Mandolin
  A mandolin is a musical instrument in the lute family . It descends from the mandore, a soprano member of the lute family. The mandolin soundboard comes in many shapes—but generally round or teardrop-shaped, sometimes with scrolls or other projections. A mandolin may have f-holes, or a single...
  
  , saxophones
  Saxophone
  The saxophone is a conical-bore transposing musical instrument that is a member of the woodwind family. Saxophones are usually made of brass and played with a single-reed mouthpiece similar to that of the clarinet. The saxophone was invented by the Belgian instrument maker Adolphe Sax in 1846...
  
   and bass flute
  Bass flute
  The bass flute is the bass member of the flute family. It is in the key of C, pitched one octave below the concert flute. Because of the length of its tube , it is usually made with a "J" shaped head joint, which brings the embouchure hole within reach of the player...
  
  

Other

• Simon Tassano – FOH sound, Tour manager
• Tom Dubé – Monitors, Production manager
• Bobby Eichorn – Guitar tech, Stage manager
• Edmond Deraedt – Lighting designer – USA
• Paul Kell - Lighting designer - UK