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 ...

Already a couple, Richard and Linda Thompson decided that they’d start performing together as well. When their record label lost interest in their exploits, they decided to record together. I Want To ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This cover image released by New West Records shows "Ship to Shore" by Richard Thompson. (New West Records via AP) For more than ...

“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 ...

Dark times, you say? All rivers meet their end when they meet the sea, and Ship to Shore, featuring the same line-up of players in drummer Michael Jerome, bassist Taras Prodaniuk and guitarist Bobby ...

British folk-rocker Richard Thompson’s live performances are so electrifying, so heartfelt, that those who attend long remember their first RT show. “I saw Richard the first time in the early ’90s at ...