On August 9, 2005, “Cooking Vinyl” label released “Front Parlour Ballads”, the eleventh Richard Thompson studio album. It was recorded in 2004, at “Trellis Sound” in  Pacific Palisades, California, and was produced by Richard Thompson and Simon Tassano.

Personnel:

• Richard Thompson– vocals, acoustic and electric guitar,  mandolin,  accordion, bass guitar
• Debra Dobkin– percussion

Track listing:

All tracks by Richard Thompson

1. Let It Blow
2. For Whose Sake?
3. Miss Patsy
4. Old Thames Side
5. How Does Your Garden Grow?
6. My Soul, My Soul
7. Cressida
8. Row, Boys Row
9. The Boys Of Mutton Street
10. Precious One
11. A Solitary Life
12. Should I Betray?
13. When We Were Boys At School