Richard Thompson

For a singer/songwriter and guitarist long hailed as a great folk-rock romanticist, Richard
Thompson actually prefers the company of misery. There are few truly happy endings in
his extensive catalog. Like Elvis Costello, Thompson specializes in the mordant humor and
plaintive spectacle of prolonged goodbyes, uneasy compromises and bedroom espionage.
But Thompson's special genius is in the way the slightly bassy warmth of his voic... More >