by talkfromtherockroom | May 11, 2024 | Reviews
Richard Thompson has been hammering and nailing together a sturdy and diverse musical career for almost sixty years. A scholar of song and collector of disparate melody, Thompson’s expansive musical journey started in the 1960’s with Fairport Convention, moved...
by talkfromtherockroom | Apr 27, 2024 | Reviews, Take One
Playing in the rock room today is a track from Richard Thomson’s upcoming new album Ship to Shore. Thompson is preparing to release what will be his 19ths solo record of his almost 60 year career, not including his discography with former wife and vocalist Linda...
by talkfromtherockroom | Jul 7, 2020 | Reviews
On July 3rd, 2020 famed guitarist and singer Richard Thompson quietly released a six track EP via the website Bandcamp. This collection was recorded during his and all of our recent quarantine during the worldwide Covid-19 pandemic. Thompson, like countless other...
by talkfromtherockroom | Jan 27, 2020 | Live Reviews, Rock Room on the Road
On January 25, 2020, the ‘rock room’ was lucky enough to attend an intimate solo acoustic performance by the one and only Richard Thompson at Whitaker Center for the Arts in Harrisburg, PA. Thompson has been moving around the Northeast for a...
by talkfromtherockroom | Nov 1, 2019 | Reviews, Take One
Accelerating from the speakers of the ‘rock room’ today is a song that was listed by Time magazine as one of its “All Time 100 Songs”. The song was birthed as a nondescript album track on Richard Thompson’s 1991 LP Rumor and Sigh and in the intervening years...
