I Want to See the Bright Lights Tonight — Americana with a dash of Englishness from Richard and Linda Thompson

The track filtered through in the US underground in the indie era, covered very straight by the likes of Susanna Hoffs, Matt ...
American Songwriter

Behind the Album: Richard and Linda Thompson Coax Beauty Out of Bleakness on ‘I Want To See The Bright Lights Tonight’

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 ...
American Songwriter

The Lyric That Put Richard and Linda Thompson Out on the High Wire

Richard Thompson wrote "The Great Valerio", and Linda Thompson sung it. Together they display the power of metaphor in ...
The New York Times

Linda Thompson Can’t Sing Her New Songs. Her Solution? ‘Proxy Music.’

The singer and songwriter who rose from the ’60s British folk-rock scene lost her vocals to a neurological disorder. So she wrote a batch of tracks for others to voice. By Jim Farber For years, the ...
Yahoo

Linda Thompson Can’t Sing Anymore. She Still Has Plenty to Say

Linda Thompson lost her ability to sing to spasmodic dysphonia, but the British folk-rock legend's music is still being heard on a new album. - Credit: Tom Oldham* On a recent afternoon in a ...
Pitchfork

Proxy Music

Stricken by a disease that left her unable to sing, the British songwriter recruits a cast of guest vocalists for a set of songs that toy with assumptions about authorship and interpretation. Thompson ...