Richard Thompson, OBE

[Pat Helms]

whenever I'm explaining to someone who RT is, I've always found it mildly frustrating to refer to him in terms of a band he left nearly 40 years ago. So I describe him as "an amazing English singer/songwriter/guitarist who started his career with Fairport Convention.

That doesn't work in Merka, where precious few of my peers have heard of either RT or FC.

I describe him as the English Bob Dylan, after which I say it's more appropriate to describe Bob Dylan as the Merkin Richard Thompson.

I've alway described him as such:

You can find a better singer, and perhaps a better songwriter......and maybe (shutter)......even a better guitar player.  But - you'll never find a better singer/songwriter/guitar player out there - period.  

[Henry Tompkins (Pete)]

whenever I'm explaining to someone who RT is, I've always found it mildly frustrating to refer to him in terms of a band he left nearly 40 years ago. So I describe him as "an amazing English singer/songwriter/guitarist who started his career with Fairport Convention.

That doesn't work in Merka, where precious few of my peers have heard of either RT or FC.

I describe him as the English Bob Dylan, after which I say it's more appropriate to describe Bob Dylan as the Merkin Richard Thompson.

I've alway described him as such:

You can find a better singer, and perhaps a better songwriter......and maybe (shutter)......even a better guitar player.  But - you'll never find a better singer/songwriter/guitar player out there - period.  

That's it - in a nutshell.  

[PLW (Peter)]

I describe him as the English Bob Dylan,

Much as I love RT, if we are talking lyrics -especially in recent years - that's a bit over the top IMHO.  

I prefer to think of Bob Dylan as the American Richard Thompson.