to meet Richard Thompson and discuss his extraordinary new album, Fairport Convention and recording in Nashville with Buddy Miller. Here, in this piece from Uncut’s May 2006 issue (Take 108 ...

SPECIAL: Global Village celebrates the birthday of legendary guitarist and English folk-rock pioneer Richard Thompson. We’ll ...

Richard Thompson may not be a household name. But he’s the kind of songwriter and guitarist revered by many music legends. He ...

He co-founded Fairport Convention as a teenager in the 1960s, helping to create the unique British folk rock sound.

CD1: The Money Shuffle; Among the Gorse, Among the Grey; Haul Me Up; Burning Man; Here Comes Geordie; Demons in Her Dancing Shoes; Crimescene; Big Sun Falling in the River; Stumble On; Sidney Wells; A ...

Then again, there aren’t too many performers like Richard ... album. Those songs, “Singapore Sadie,” “The Day That I Give In,” and “The Old Pack Mule,” demonstrate that Thompson ...

Richard & Linda Thompson will release an 8xCD box set, Hard Luck Stories (1972-1982), via UMC/Universal on September 11. It features all six studio albums the couple made together, plus non-album ...