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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

This cover image released by New West Records shows "Ship to Shore" by Richard Thompson. (New West Records via AP) For more than half a century, British guitarist Richard Thompson has created albums ...

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 ...

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 ...

Richard Thompson began his music career as the guitarist for the English folk rock band Fairport Convention. As part of a new generation of British musicians in the late sixties, Fairport Convention ...

“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 ...

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 ...