Richard Thompson has been making music for a very long time. From his days in the late 1960s as a teenage guitar player and songwriter with the seminal British folk rock group Fairport Convention to ...

Legendary British folk and folk-rock guitarist/singer/songwriter Richard Thompson focuses on his early career in this memoir. The story of his musical coming of age ...

Richard Thompson has been one of rock’s MVPs since the mid-Sixties. He was a founding member of Fairport Convention — the band that invented the merger of rock and British folk — and his subsequent, ...

Folk rock, finding a voice and confronting tragedy ... a gripping account of the early career of a great songwriter and guitarist The middle-class, middle-aged couple posing rather awkwardly by the ...

Richard Thompson's Beeswing dwells on youth, but is colored by decades of hindsight. A breezy, detailed road map of Thompson's teens and twenties during the halcyon days of Britain's folk scene, he ...

The strange saga of brunch spot Beeswing seems to be coming to an end. Tomorrow, the restaurant will hold its grand opening in Sellwood, months after it was displaced from its original Cully location.