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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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