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Jun 20, 2024 · Linda Thompson, limber at 76, didn’t want to give up on music. “Up until my 60s, I could still sing in the studio, at least on good days,” she said. For her new album, other singers serve as ...
Jun 20, 2024 · For years, the singer Linda Thompson faced a problem that, for someone in her line of work, seemed insurmountable. Slowly over time, and then suddenly all at once, she lost the ability to hold a note surely enough to sustain even the simplest tune.
3 days ago · Linda Thompson is best known as a singer and interpreter of someone else’s songs. A specific someone else: Richard Thompson, her ex-husband, with whom she made a few of the greatest British folk ...
Jun 17, 2024 · Linda Thompson, who ranks among the finest singers of her generation, hardly sings a note on “Proxy Music," her first album in over a decade. Instead, Thompson makes herself heard through her...
Jun 21, 2024 · “Once I had a voice clear and true … but now that voice is gone,” is the arresting opening declaration of The Solitary Traveller, the first thing we hear on a surprising new album by Linda ...
Jun 20, 2024 · On a happier note, The New York Times today finally got to Linda Thompson and her new album which has maybe the year’s best parody title and cover photo (hello, Bryan Ferry), “Proxy Music.” It’s been hailed in the UK for days now.
Jun 17, 2024 · She’s often remembered for music she made with Richard Thompson, including several classic albums before their marriage ended in 1982. Linda has since released the occasional solo album, each excellent, but her ability to sing has been affected for decades by the vocal condition spasmodic dysphonia.
