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Like the turnout for Rufus Wainwright's "Release The Stars", the gang's all here for this rare and lovely album by Linda Thompson - even Richard Thompson, in spirit, who contributed "the idea" for the verses on "Blue & Gold". That song was actually written by Linda and their son, Teddy Thompson, whose contributions here are so strong that they make me want to revisit those solo records of his that I always found rather bland and underwhelming. Teddy's best friend Rufus i... MORE
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This is the first song I heard in 2008 -- "a love song that relates the redemptive power of a love song using the medium as the message."
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On 8/23/07 (or 23/8/07 for those on the Other Side of the Big Pond), Linda Thompson appeared on NPR's All Things Considered. Not the greatest interview, it touches on what it was like to be 18 in the London folk scene of the mid-60s, when all sorts of people were just starting out, and Martin Carthy was busy being one of the most important influences ever on USAian folk, but mostly she talks about her years in a Sufi commune with Richard (her advice is "don't live in co... MORE
