Stevie Ray Vaughan was undoubtedly a master of blues rock playing (and likely whatever else he would've tried), but his style doesn't seem particularly personal to me. Sure, he was completely virtuosic, and highly passionate, able to reel off incredible - and incredibly heartfelt - blues solos like it was nothing, but there are hundreds and thousands of great blues rock guitarists whose sound isn't exactly a world away from Stevie's. Richard Thompson, on the other hand, has an unbelievably personal style, mixing rock music with a distinctly English folk sensibility, and with this he managed to create something that was far fresher (relatively) than anything SRV did (inventing English folk rock). Thompson is also incredibly versatile, able to cut through a track with his beautifully subtle solos and distinctively earthy tone, but also just as capable of crafting finger-picked melodies as mesmerising as any I've heard. Richard Thompson is the perfect mix of the old world and the new, pushing boundaries in his time whilst never being afraid to dig into a musical past that stretched back further than even blues music.
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