The Washington Post

Richard Thompson, Home Alone

Aco-founder of the pioneering British folk outfit Fairport Convention and a co-author, with not-yet-ex-wife Linda, of the harrowing breakup classic "Shoot Out the Lights," Richard Thompson has had a ...
Jazz

Richard Thompson

In 2017, Ivor Novello Award-winning and GRAMMY® Award-nominated legend Richard Thompson gave himself up to the music itself. Picking up a guitar, emotions echoed through his deft fleet-fingered ...
San Diego Union-Tribune

Richard Thompson, a quiet music great, pens revelatory memoir: ‘It was necessary to write about the hooker’

Fans of Richard Thompson — whose admirers range from Bonnie Raitt and Bob Dylan to the members of Los Lobos and Dinosaur Jr. — know he has long been critically acclaimed as one of the finest and most ...
KPBS

In 'Beeswing,' Richard Thompson Revisits A Big Life Just Shy Of The Mainstream

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 ...
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

Richard Thompson Sr.

Richard Thompson Sr., 84, of Little Rock transitioned September 8, 2024. He is survived by his children, Richard Thompson Jr., Michelle Nelson (Keithen), Ricanna Smith, Donald Thompson Sr. (Linda). 13 ...