Richard & Linda Thompson is tagged as: folk, singer-songwriter, folk rock, british folk, folk-rock From 1974 to 1982, Richard Thompson recorded as a duo with his wife Linda Thompson. This period saw a great amount of critical praise for Richard’s songwriting and Linda’s voice, though not much popular success. Since their divorce, both have pursued solo careers. The Thompsons recorded three albums I Want to See the Bright Lights Tonight (1974), Hokey Pokey (1975) and Pour Down Like Silver (1975) before they decided to leave the music business and moved to a Sufi commune in East Anglia. Songwriting was by Richard throughout, lead vocals generally by Linda,and backing by a consistent core band of English folk-rock stalwarts I Want to See the Bright Lights Tonight showed a clear development from Richard Thompson’s first solo effort Henry The Human Flywith Linda’s vocals adding grace, as well as the opportunity for Richard to write from a female perspective. Although Thompson’s trademark gloom is already evident, the lightness and beauty of the arrangements counterbalances this to produce moments of great beauty. The use of brass, from the renowned CWS silver band in particular takes forward Thompson’s continuing crusade to find a more contemporary and ordinary expression of Englishness in music,(as opposed to say the forays into the... Read More About Richard & Linda Thompson Biography...  Send Richard & Linda Thompson ringtones to your cell
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