Richard Thompson

Ahoy there! Richard Thompson’s new album “Ship to Shore” and tour announced

March 11, 2024 Keith Hargreaves 0

The legendary Richard Thompson will return with “Ship To Shore” on May 31, 2024 via New West Records. The 12-song set was produced by Thompson and recorded in Woodstock, NY. It follows his 2018 studio album […]

Classic Clips: Richard Thompson & Nanci Griffith “1952 Vincent Black Lightning” – Sessions at West 54th 1997

June 16, 2023 Tim Martin 0

Richard Thompson’s music has been high on my playlist recently, after re-reading Joe Boyd’s memoir of the 60s for our Paperback Riders strand. Originally recorded for his album ‘Rumor and Sigh’. In the early 90s, ‘1952 […]

AUK’s Chain Gang: Richard Thompson “Beeswing”

May 30, 2023 Andrew Frolish 0

For this week’s Chain Gang, we link Christy Moore’s version of ‘Motherland’ to Richard Thompson. ‘Motherland’ appeared on Moore’s 2006 covers album ‘Burning Times’. Another song on that outstanding album was ‘Beeswing’, which originally appeared on […]

Essentials – Richard Thompson: 10 albums for americana fans

November 24, 2022 Rick Bayles 2

It’s interesting that, in recent years, Richard Thompson, as quintessentially a British folk-rocker as you could hope to find, increasingly crops up in americana listings and charts. Of course, he’s lived in the U.S. pretty much […]

Interview: Geoff Muldaur on the latest addition to his lifetime body of work

October 3, 2022 Martin Johnson 2

One of the greatest white blues and roots music singers who was a major influence on Jerry Garcia. Geoff Muldaur may not be a member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, he doesn’t have […]

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Dead Goat to release self titled debut amid talk of an Irish supergroup

March 23, 2026 0

Dead Goat has announced the release of their first album, which is self-titled and comes out this Friday (26th March) via AV8 Records. Who are they, you ask? Well, individually, they are each accomplished artists in […]

Cat Clyde “Mud Blood Bone”

March 23, 2026 0

Superb fourth from Canadian song thrush. Mud Blood Bone is Cat Clyde’s fourth album and arrives just over four years since its predecessor, Down Rounder. In between times, Clyde released a live album, Live At Rare […]

For the Sake of the Song: Marah “Round Eye Blues”

March 23, 2026 0

Marah is at their best when singing about lonely urban streets where bums warm their hands around trash fires in rusty 50-gallon cans, transvestite prostitutes wrap their feather boas a little tighter against an unforgiving 4:00 […]

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Interview: Bob Lind on “It Oughta Be Easy”

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Jerry Leger to tour UK this May

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Jerry Leger has announced a May tour with twelve dates starting in High Wycombe on May 8th. The tour promotes the Canadian’s ‘Latent Uncovers’ EP, which came out earlier this year. The four songs were recorded […]

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Cambridge Folk Festival announces second list of acts for 2024

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The Cambridge Folk Festival has announced its second tranche of acts for the 2024 event, including several names to whet the appetite of fans of Americana. Following their shows with the 2024 Transatlantic Sessions, banjo/ fiddle […]

Ahoy there! Richard Thompson’s new album “Ship to Shore” and tour announced

Classic Clips: Richard Thompson & Nanci Griffith “1952 Vincent Black Lightning” – Sessions at West 54th 1997

AUK’s Chain Gang: Richard Thompson “Beeswing”

Essentials – Richard Thompson: 10 albums for americana fans

Interview: Geoff Muldaur on the latest addition to his lifetime body of work

Dead Goat to release self titled debut amid talk of an Irish supergroup

Cat Clyde “Mud Blood Bone”

For the Sake of the Song: Marah “Round Eye Blues”

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