Easy there, steady now. TERRY GROSS: Richard Thompson performing in our studio. You know, I don't know that I could think of another guitarist who combines the best of folk and rock better than ...
“We got interested in songwriters,” Thompson remembers, “and the best happened to be American ... unapologetic romantic longing from the 1975 Richard & Linda Thompson album, Pour Down ...
Proxy Music ★★★★☆ “Once I had a voice clear and true … but now that voice is gone,” is the ...
The British singer/guitarist spoke to Fresh Air in 1994 and '22 about about his formative years and about pioneering a new musical genre that blended rock with traditional music of the British isles.