I’m Gonna Break Somebody’s Heart Tonight: Rumor and Sigh at 30
Much to his credit, Richard Thompson has refused to alight on any one genre. Instead, he preferred to apply his considerable guitar virtuosity and underrated songwriting gifts to whatever strikes his fancy—from more avant collaborations with Henry Kaiser and Fred Firth to dabbling in classical music and of course a number of English trad folk music outings. Mostly though he’s stayed in a singer/songwriter groove that leans folky `a la his former band Fairport Convention and has become very adept at drawing telling character sketches like the one in “1952 Vincent Black Lightning.”
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