Linda Thompson lost her ability to sing to spasmodic dysphonia, but the British folk-rock legend's music is still being heard on a new album. - Credit: Tom Oldham* On a recent afternoon in a ...

The amazing Richard Thompson has enjoyed a long, storied career that has taken him through many distinct eras. There was his time with the folk-rock pioneers Fairport Convention, as well as his solo ...

Folk heroes Richard and Linda Thompson split up, creatively and romantically, in the early 1980s. Now their son Teddy has brought them together... Thompson Family's Musical Sweater: 'Smells Funny, Lot ...

Linda Thompson, who ranks among the finest singers of her generation, hardly sings a note on “Proxy Music,” her first album in over a decade. Instead, Thompson makes herself heard through her ...

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 and ...

BEING THE offspring of British folk music royalty has its perks. So it's no surprise that singer-songwriter Teddy Thompson gets a helping hand from both Richard and Linda Thompson on his sophomore ...

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 and has a new album out.