Top musicians tend to lead exciting lives, meeting fascinating, inspiring people along the way. All those experiences are fodder for the best songwriters, who often use these characters to populate ...

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 ...

When Richard Thompson plays the guitar, it can simply overwhelm listeners—in the best possible way. With just his two hands and ten fingers, the guy can conjure solid rhythmic foundations, smoothly ...

“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 ...

Legendary singer and songwriter Richard Thompson plays at the cherished Tabernacle venue. Prolific and legendary songwriter Richard Thompson brings his wide-ranging collection of songs to the ...

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 ...

There is a Richard Thompson song from 1975 called "Dimming of the Day." It was released on "Pour Down Like Silver," the third album Thompson released with his then-wife Linda after he left Fairport ...

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 ...

“Well, it’s gotten me this far,” proclaimed Richard Thompson Sunday at the Academy of Music in Northampton, Mass., recounting his defiant rejoinder when a manager decried Thompson’s downbeat, doomy ...

Is 1982’s Shoot Out the Lights the best album Richard Thompson ever made? Fans think it is. His own opinion might surprise you ...

Richard Thompson's legendary rock and roll roots date back to the '60s, when he co-founded Fairport Convention. His World Cafe roots don't date back that far, but they are still significant. This show ...