On the final song of Linda Thompson’s Proxy Music there’s a refrain that pretty much summarises the whole album “Bound together in blood and song, who can break us?/When we are singing loud and strong, who can take us?” I hear no arguments to the contrary.
Listen to the first single from Linda Thompson’s new album Proxy Music. The album features Kami Thompson, Martha Wainwright, The Proclaimers, Rufus Wainwright, Ren Harvieu, John Grant, The Rails, Dori Freeman, Eliza Carthy, The Unthanks and Teddy Thompson.
Finally, there is one place to go for anyone who wants the complete works of Richard & Linda Thompson… it’s exactly what you want from an essential archive trawling box set.
Richard and Linda Thompson announce the Hard Luck Stories Box Set, their first ever comprehensive career retrospective including 31 previously unreleased recordings. Listen to Amazon Queen available today.
Listen to the new single by Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy from the new Refugee charity album which also features Linda Thompson, Alasdair Roberts, Piers Facini, Jenny Lysander, Rick Redbeard, Rachel Sermanni, Dana Falconberry, Newcastle maverick Richard Dawson and more.
With Teddy Thompson as the guiding hand and three generations of the Thompson clan fulfilling their writing brief, the resultant Family album matches the ambition of bringing this extraordinary musical dynasty together.
We bring you your first taste of the long-awaited collaborative Thompson album ‘Family’ with the title track featuring Teddy Thompson, also our Song of the Day.
We are giving away a fantastic folk festival prize bundle: Tickets to Fairport’s Cropredy festival plus 4 classic folk vinyl LP re-presses from John Martyn, Sandy Denny, Richard & Linda Thompson and Fairport Convention.
Island Records resurrect their classic 60s pink label for The Rails, daughter and son-in-law of folk music legends Richard & Linda Thompson, footsteps they are highly likely to follow.
In part 5 of our Best Albums of 2013 we feature Lal Waterson, Lisa Knapp, The Full English, Dan Haywood, The R.G. Morrison, Ruth Theodore, Barrule, Aidan O’Rourke and more.
