Richard Thompson performs at the 2012 Americana Music Festival. Richard Thompson plays his classic "1952 Vincent Black Lightning" at the historic Ryman Auditorium as part of ACL Presents: Americana ...

For anyone who has ever handled a guitar, watching Richard Thompson’s nimble fingers gallop up and down the neck of that instrument is pretty close to a spiritual experience. Thompson doesn’t merely ...

Richard Thompson is the kind of guitar player other guitar players revere. It's not just his technique, nor the fact that he's equally at home with an electric or an acoustic guitar. He's also a ...