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    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...

    2005 RS: 3.5of 5 Stars

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Biography

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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