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Linda Thompson.(Versatile Heart)(Sound recording review)
Linda Thompson. Versatile Heart. Rounder 11661-3217-2, 2007.
When singer Linda Thompson lost her voice shortly after the breakup of her long term musical and marital partnership with guitarist Richard Thompson, the folk and pop music world lost one of its brightest lights. The underlying problem was an anxiety disorder which is called (depending upon one's sympathies, apparently) either spasmodic or hysterical dysphonia, which makes singing impossible. Eventually it was discovered that Botox injections in the throat would relieve the symptoms, and after injections and physical therapy and voice lessons Thompson was able to return to musical activity. Her latest album finds her working with her exceptionally talented son Teddy, a fine guitarist and singer and a quietly brilliant songwriter, along with a host of folk-celebrity helpers including Martin Carthy, Eliza Carthy, John Kirkpatrick, and Susan McKeown. Her voice still shows the evidence of her previous condition in an occasional tremor and a ...
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- Magazine article from: The Advocate (The national gay & lesbian newsmagazine) August 28, 2007 700+ words
LINDA THOMPSON Versatile Heart (Rounder Records) Out August 14 One of the most beguiling voices of 70s British folkrock returns. Featuring contributions from Tom Waits, Rufus and Martha Wainwright, and Antony.
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- Newspaper article from: Hartford Courant (Hartford, CT) August 16, 2007 700+ words
...Wry to the last, Linda Thompson sums up the title track on "Versatile Heart" with a disarming bon...relative flash on "Versatile Heart," where she ventures...when she sings on "Versatile Heart," "You're lucky...
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- Newspaper article from: Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA) August 15, 2007 700+ words
LINDA THOMPSON "Versatile Heart" (Rounder) Linda Thompson's superb new album, her first in five years, is...British contemporary folk singer's own family. "Versatile Heart" features contributions from Kamila and Teddy Thompson...
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- Newspaper article from: Philadelphia Inquirer (Philadelphia, PA) August 14, 2007 700+ words
Pop: LINDA THOMPSON "Versatile Heart" (Rounder, 3 { stars) There was a 17-year gap between Linda Thompson's first album and the cheekily...in 2002, so the sterling "Versatile Heart" comes along sooner than might...
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- Newspaper article from: The Independent - London Pierre Perrone October 30, 2009 700+ words
...Ackles, Sandy Denny, John Cale, Richard and Linda Thompson, as well as The Strawbs. He eventually joined...Paul Weller's Heliocentric album (2000) and Linda Thompson's Versatile Heart (2007). Born in 1948, Kirby was a gifted...
- Getting on famously: Rufus Wainwright was born with a musical pedigree, and...
- Newspaper article from: Philadelphia Inquirer (Philadelphia, PA) August 15, 2007 700+ words
...messenger. So don't shoot the messenger, please. Q: There's a song you wrote called "Beauty" on Linda Thompson's 2007 album Versatile Heart: "All that it has given me is a longing for people and things I can never afford." That's a...
- Folk legend Linda Thompson finds her voice again.(Arts and Lifestyle)
- Newspaper article from: The Boston Herald Gewertz, Daniel October 24, 2002 700+ words
...a sporadic inability to sing ended Linda Thompson's career in the mid-'80s, everyone...havoc of 1982. That year, Richard and Linda Thompson, the first couple of British folk...d be fewer snipers in the world." Linda Thompson, Somerville Theatre, tomorrow, 8...
- Leader of the fringe.(Linda Thompson's American Justice Federation; Patriot...
- Magazine article from: The Progressive Vest, Jason June 1, 1995 700+ words
...American Justice Federation's director, Linda Thompson, apparently decided that the mere...Such beliefs are articles of faith for Linda Thompson. Best known for her videotapes...Still others have a simpler take on Linda Thompson. "I suppose some uncharitable individual...
