Richard Thompson

Richard Thompson's superb new album, Mirror Blue, boasts no bold forays or shocking
twists, only the same fervid but stringently unsentimental writing and musicianship that has
always distinguished this seminal folk rocker's best work. Like Rumor and Sigh (1991), Blue
sounds contemporary without self-consciously striving to be hip. Fitting warm Celtic
textures into taut arrangements, Thompson and producer Mitchell Froom avoid q... More >

I thought she loved me but she didn't--why does this keep happening? ("Shane and Dixie," "For the Sake of Mary")