As Richard Thompson starts listing the names of his heroes, the decades fade away and what emerges is that long-ago London kid, utterly obsessed with the guitar. At 66, Thompson is still at it, still ...

Folk legend Richard Thompson has shared his thoughts on the current guitar gear market and revealed he’s been impressed by some of the new equipment coming out – but that doesn’t mean he’s been fully ...

I came into Richard Thompson’s Saturday night set at the House of Blues as a Thompson greenhorn. I’d heard his work, knew of his reputation as the dark-horse candidate for greatest living pop ...

Put down those lanyards, and forget about choosing kickball teams. If you want to learn to play your guitar and write songs like a master, you’ll want to sign up for music legend Richard Thompson’s ...

SISTERS, Ore. (KTVZ) -- Sisters Folk Festival, Inc. announces its Big Ponderoo guitar raffle fundraiser to support SFF’s cultural education outreach and programming in Central Oregon. Sisters-based, ...

Richard Thompson probably isn't the first name that comes to mind when listing the greatest guitarists of all time, but it should be. In his seventh decade of existence, Thompson is a respected figure ...

Richard Thompson continues to cross modern folk and rock barriers like a brilliant but dissatisfied painter seeking to create an unmixable shade of blue. Constantly adding, innovating and searching, ...

Singer, songwriter and master guitarist Richard Thompson set the tone for his Tuesday show at the Teragram Ballroom with the night’s first lyric. “What’s my name? My name is Trouble,” Thompson sang by ...

Few musical introductions have marked me as indelibly as my first encounter with Richard Thompson. It must have been around the time that “Action Packed: The Best of the Capitol Years” came out in ...

Folk legend Richard Thompson will be in full-on kid-in-a-toy-shop mode when he lines up alongside some legendary guitar players at the Meltdown festival 2010 on London's South Bank later this month.

Ron Thompson, one of the most accomplished guitarists in Bay Area blues history, died Feb. 15 in Hayward. He was 66. The cause of death was not reported, although Thompson’s press website said he had ...