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 ...

Dating back to his years with Fairport Convention and continuing through his solo career – which has included dozens of albums, memorable songs and notable collaborations – Richard Thompson has made a ...

British singer/songwriter Richard Thompson has a new box set of live performances, outtakes, and previously unreleased material. The 5-disc set, The Life and Music of Richard Thompson, was built from ...

WHEN YOU shake the hand of a right-handed artist, you are not merely gripping fingers. You are, in the parlance of show business, shaking the moneymaker — the very instrument that, by putting idea to ...

A British musician known for both his guitar prowess and his exceptional songwriting, 58-year-old Richard Thompson has earned a reputation as a skilled live performer, as well as a consistently vital ...

Few artists have maintained the unerring consistency of Richard Thompson's near-half century career. After leaving Fairport Convention in 1970—cofounded by the British singer/songwriter/guitarist and ...

Where do songs come from? It’s an age-old question, one songwriters and composers have been attempting to answer — or, perhaps, dodge — for years. Richard Thompson, who’s written nearly 900 songs over ...

Folk legend Richard Thompson has shared his thoughts on the current guitar gear market and revealed he’s been impressed by some of the new equipment coming out – but that doesn’t mean he’s been fully ...

For anyone who has ever handled a guitar, watching Richard Thompson’s nimble fingers gallop up and down the neck of that instrument is pretty close to a spiritual experience. Thompson doesn’t merely ...

Rolling Stone magazine ranked Richard Thompson one of the 20 best guitar players of all time. He's also one of Britain's finest singer-songwriters... Rolling Stone magazine ranked Richard Thompson one ...

Richard Thompson's Beeswing dwells on youth, but is colored by decades of hindsight. A breezy, detailed road map of Thompson's teens and twenties during the halcyon days of Britain's folk scene, he ...