{"id":3677,"date":"2017-08-25T11:12:42","date_gmt":"2017-08-25T18:12:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/?p=3677"},"modified":"2017-08-25T11:16:13","modified_gmt":"2017-08-25T18:16:13","slug":"the-literary-richard-thompson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/2017\/08\/the-literary-richard-thompson.html","title":{"rendered":"The Literary Richard Thompson"},"content":{"rendered":"

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FEW living musicians fascinate me as much as Richard Thompson, the London-reared, Los Angeles-dwelling, Fairport Convention-founding guitarist and songwriter whose recording career just hit the 50 year mark.<\/p>\n

I’ve been listening to Richard’s work for three decades now — since I first heard “Valerie” and “A Bone Through Her Nose” on WHFS as a teenager — and have been meeting or speaking to him for nearly a quarter century. I’ve been struck, over the years, by what a serious thinker and deep reader he is, and by the role things outside music play in his songwriting and sense of mission.<\/p>\n

When I started the All the Poets column for the Los Angeles Review of Books, Richard was one of the first musicians to come to mind for it. So it’s a real pleasure to have been able to correspond about his literary influences and passions.<\/p>\n

The latest Richard Thompson record, Acoustic Classics II, just dropped this week, with Acoustic Rarities due in the fall. Here<\/a> is our conversation.<\/p>\n

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