NFR: What is the best song or instrumental you have heard today?

RaySmith · April 19, 2024, 10:13:36 AM

Richard and Linda Thompson - recent Guardian interview about Linda's album of new songs, sung by other artists, because her she has voice problems.

She also speaks of knowing all the very talented British folk musicians of the 60's/early 70', like Nick Drake, Sandy Denny, John Martyn, and also worked with Gerry Rafferty of the Humblebums with Billy Connolly, and big hits with Stealers Wheel, like Stuck in the Middle With You and Baker Steet - a few years later all these people were dead - not Billy of course, of drink/drugs, and suicide in Nick Drake's case.

The folk singers were the wildest and most self destructive, made most rock stars look like lightweights!