“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 ...

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 ...

It’s a tough call whether Richard Thompson is better known as a songwriter or as a guitarist, but there’s no question which comes first for Thompson: The song is paramount. From his early days ...

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 ...

Every Richard Thompson album is a gem, as the guy just doesn’t know how to turn in a clunker. Electric , from 2013, is one of his best from the last few decades.

Rolling Stone has named Richard Thompson a top 100 guitarists and called him “one of rock’s most dazzling stylists.” Who: Richard Thompson When: 8 p.m., Thursday, Nov. 7 Where: Uptown ...

40 years on from its release, Wayne Gooderham revisits the second album Richard Thompson recorded in the wake of his split from wife Linda, and finds a subtle, off-kilter – and unfairly overlooked – ...