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 ...

Folk rock legend and former Fairport Convention member Richard Thompson has announced a new album, Ship To Shore, due May 31 via New West Records (pre-order). It’s his first album since his acclaimed ...

Dark times, you say? All rivers meet their end when they meet the sea, and Ship to Shore, featuring the same line-up of players in drummer Michael Jerome, bassist Taras Prodaniuk and guitarist Bobby ...

We’ve come to the end of the last workweek of May. As usual, our reward is a stack of new country and Americana albums. With summer, the halfway point of the year, and festival season right around the ...

Richard Thompson began his music career as the guitarist for the English folk rock band Fairport Convention. As part of a new generation of British musicians in the late sixties, Fairport Convention ...

British folk-rocker Richard Thompson’s live performances are so electrifying, so heartfelt, that those who attend long remember their first RT show. “I saw Richard the first time in the early ’90s at ...

“If you love to dance to the music of the 15th century,” Richard Thompson tells the audience at Annapolis’s Rams Head on Stage, “you’ll love this one.” That song, “The Old Pack Mule,” does have the ...