Originally published on April 11, 2021 8:34 am
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 his roaring partnership with then-wife Linda Thompson, and his many years as a solo artist beyond.
Critics have compared his songwriting to Bob Dylan s, and put his guitar chops up there with Jimi Hendrix. Yet for the most part despite years of touring, recording and multiple Grammy nominations Richard Thompson remains largely under the mainstream radar. Now 72, he s released a memoir called
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