Fairport Convention co-founder Richard Thompson has announced the release of his first studio album in six years. Thompson will release the 12-track Ship To Shore through New West Records on May 31.

Shoot Out the Lights proved to be both a breakthrough and a farewell for Richard and Linda Thompson. The 1982 album chronicled the dissolution of their marriage. Once the record was released, the ...

Indeed, Thompson's 75 th birthday concert will land on 8 June at the Royal Albert Hall, with a dazzling range of musical guests to rival the same venue’s epic 70th birthday bash five years ago.

Folk rock legend and former Fairport Convention member Richard Thompson has announced a new album, Ship To Shore, due May 31 via New West Records (pre-order). It’s his first album since his acclaimed ...

We’ve come to the end of the last workweek of May. As usual, our reward is a stack of new country and Americana albums. With summer, the halfway point of the year, and festival season right around the ...

“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 ...

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 ...

With help from Jim O’Rourke and Henry Kaiser, the British guitarist supplies the bittersweet backdrop to Werner Herzog’s 2005 film about humans’ doomed desire to conquer nature. Save this story Save ...

The singer-songwriter often writes songs about his complex relationships with women. On his new Electric, Thompson is still coming to terms with the sources of his frustrations, which ought to give ...