British folk-rocker Richard Thompson’s live performances are so electrifying, so heartfelt, that those who attend long remember their first RT show. “I saw Richard the first time in the early ’90s at ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This cover image released by New West Records shows "Ship to Shore" by Richard Thompson. (New West Records via AP) For more than ...
“If you love to dance to the music of the 15th century,” Richard Thompson tells the audience at Annapolis’s Rams Head on Stage, “you’ll love this one.” That song, “The Old Pack Mule,” does have the ...
“Well, it’s gotten me this far,” proclaimed Richard Thompson Sunday at the Academy of Music in Northampton, Mass., recounting his defiant rejoinder when a manager decried Thompson’s downbeat, doomy ...
Folk rock legend and former Fairport Convention member Richard Thompson has announced a new album, Ship To Shore, due May 31 via New West Records (pre-order). It’s his first album since his acclaimed ...
The good: The English singer/songwriter and folk rock legend releases his 19th solo effort. The bad: Nothing. The nitty gritty: He has been a distinct voice for over half a century; the guy never ...
Richard Thompson began his music career as the guitarist for the English folk rock band Fairport Convention. As part of a new generation of British musicians in the late sixties, Fairport Convention ...
Dark times, you say? All rivers meet their end when they meet the sea, and Ship to Shore, featuring the same line-up of players in drummer Michael Jerome, bassist Taras Prodaniuk and guitarist Bobby ...