Shoot Out the Lights proved to be both a breakthrough and a farewell for Richard and Linda Thompson. The 1982 album chronicled the dissolution of their marriage. Once the record was released, the ...

Eight CDs. A comprehensive box set that covers the couple's entire career and is a must-have for fans of Richard and Linda Thompson as well as a definitive introduction to a body of work which ...

Richard Thompson has been one of rock’s MVPs since the mid-Sixties. He was a founding member of Fairport Convention — the band that invented the merger of rock and British folk — and his subsequent, ...

The amazing Richard Thompson has enjoyed a long, storied career that has taken him through many distinct eras. There was his time with the folk-rock pioneers Fairport Convention, as well as his solo ...

Linda Thompson lost her ability to sing to spasmodic dysphonia, but the British folk-rock legend's music is still being heard on a new album. - Credit: Tom Oldham* On a recent afternoon in a ...

Still Corners have shared two tracks recorded at the iconic Abbey Road Studios in London. They include a cover of Richard & Linda Thompson’s “The Calvary Cross” and a new version of their own “Black ...

This is FRESH AIR. I'm David Bianculli. Richard Thompson, the British singer-songwriter-guitarist who has been writing and recording music since the '60s, is about to launch a summer concert tour and ...