Linda Thompson

When ex-fairport convention guitarist Richard Thompson and his folk-singer wife, Linda,
split up in the early 1980s, the recorded document of their demise, Shoot Out the Lights,
became one of British folk rock's greatest works. After the divorce, Linda recorded the
comparatively disappointing solo album One Clear Moment and then was silenced by a rare
condition known as hysterical dysphonia, a crippling case of stage fright. Fashio... More >

Relocating her folk roots with a male musical-domestic collaborator--her son Teddy ("Weary Life," "Dear Mary")