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March 25, 2003

Thompson Takes "Bag" on Tour

Singer-songwriter lines up month of dates behind May release
January 15, 2003

Richard Thompson's New Bag

Veteran singer-songwriter goes indie on upcoming album
March 14, 2001

Thompson Sheds Some Gloom

New songs, label freedom find Richard Thompson almost happy
September 8, 1999

Dancing About Architecture With Richard Thompson

Richard Thompson holds forth on the 'burbs, songcraft and burdens of selling fifteen million albums

Front Parlour Ballads

Richard Thompson has long been one of rock's greatest guitarists, but his virtuosity isn't revealed in pyrotechnics. It's more about the way that he makes everything he plays -- whether a latter-day sea chantey, bard-worthy minstrel ballad or mournful rocker -- seem so relaxed and easy. Front Parlou...

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Richard Thompson, a founding member of the British folk-rock group Fairport Convention [see entry], left that band in 1971 for a career that in many ways fulfilled Fairport's goal: to link Celtic folk music to rock. Thompson?s gallows-humored, fatalistic songs, whose outlook owes something to his Sufi-Muslim religion, are steeped in the jigs and reels and marches of British folk music, although th...

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