Richard Thompson has been making music for a very long time. From his days in the late 1960s as a teenage guitar player and songwriter with the seminal British folk rock group Fairport Convention to ...
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 ...
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 ...
In Beeswing: Losing My Way and Finding My Voice, 1967-1975, Thompson looks back on difficult memories that turned into familiar songs. Richard Thompson has been making music for a very long time. From ...
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