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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

Recordings and Reviews

Walking On A Wire: 1968-2009

A perennial dark-horse contender for the title of Greatest Living Rock Guitarist, Thompson has been boxed before — 1993's triple-disc Watching the Dark and the five-disc 2006 rarities set, RT. While fanatics will debate omissions ("The End of the Rainbow," "A Sailor's Life," "When the Spell...

2009 RS: 4.5of 5 Stars

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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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