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 ...

June 27, 2024 • The British singer/guitarist spoke to Fresh Air in ... April 11, 2021 • Richard Thompson, a British musician who somehow avoided pop stardom throughout his career, has just ...

For more than half a century, British guitarist Richard Thompson has created albums filled with curious characters, love laments, dark chords, dark humor and peerless guitar work. That makes each ...

It was a family affair at British singer-songwriter Richard Thompson ... on the Ledge – the first song Thompson ever wrote as Fairport’s 19-year-old guitar-slinger. It cluelessly, Thompson ...

Richard Thompson, a key figure in the British folk ... Richard's influence on the music industry is significant, with his mastery of the guitar and engaging stage presence continuing to attract ...

The guitarist continued to play on his ex ... sounding ballad of unapologetic romantic longing from the 1975 Richard & Linda Thompson album, Pour Down like Silver. “What days have come to ...

His guitar playing may have been the most remarkable ... it’s all just him.” In 1982, Richard Thompson and then-wife, vocalist Linda Thompson, released the incendiary album, “Shoot Out ...

For more than half a century, British guitarist Richard Thompson has created albums filled with curious characters, love laments, dark chords, dark humor and peerless guitar work. That makes each ...

The British singer/guitarist spoke to Fresh Air in 1994 and '22 about about his formative years and about pioneering a new musical genre that blended rock with traditional music of the British isles.