NEW YORK, NY - MARCH 06: Richard Thompson performs at the The Music Of Aretha Franklin Tribute at Carnegie Hall on March 6, 2017 in New York City. (Photo by Eugene Gologursky/Getty Images) While the ...

If you don’t know the name Richard Thompson, there’s a good chance you love an artist who was influenced by him. Ever since the late 1960s, Thompson has been one of the world’s most accomplished folk ...

Now that Bruce, Elton, Keith, Neil—first names will do—have met the various deadlines for their autobiographies, it’s time for the headliners of smaller rooms to offer their perspective. “Give me a ...

Richard Thompson has played an average of about 100 live shows a year since he was 17. “That’s a lot of notes,” jokes the singer-songwriter, who just turned 72. But for the last 12 months, since the ...

Richard Thompson's Beeswing dwells on youth, but is colored by decades of hindsight. A breezy, detailed road map of Thompson's teens and twenties during the halcyon days of Britain's folk scene, he ...

"Beeswing: Finding My Way and Losing My Voice" by Richard Thompson, written with Scott Timberg; Algonquin Books (304 pages, $27.95) Musician Richard Thompson mentions a lot of names in his new memoir, ...

Legendary British folk and folk-rock guitarist/singer/songwriter Richard Thompson focuses on his early career in this memoir. The story of his musical coming of age ...