Fans of Richard Thompson — whose admirers range from Bonnie Raitt and Bob Dylan to the members of Los Lobos and Dinosaur Jr. — know he has long been critically acclaimed as one of the finest and most ...

You may not know his name but for nearly half a century Richard Thompson has been performing and recording music. Although the British born guitar player has never attained stardom, his songs have ...

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 ...

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 ...

Richard Thompson has been playing his millennial overview for six years now and not for a second has it grown tired or even obvious. With historical anecdotes, wisecracks and an unshakeable British ...

Lucas Theatre for the Arts was filled with a sound that felt both intimate and larger than life.

Folk legend Richard Thompson is releasing his new album 13 Rivers on September 14 via New West and Proper Records. It’s his first self-produced album, and it was engineered by Clay Blair. It also ...

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 ...

“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 ...

The Pabst Theater is not known for cover bands but Richard Thompson's survey of "1000 Years of Popular Music" is not your average bar band. The Pabst Theater is not known for cover bands but Richard ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This cover image released by New West Records shows "Ship to Shore" by Richard Thompson. (New West Records via AP) For more than ...