Jul 21st, 2008 · The secret identity of the electronic artist known as Podington Bear has been blown. Hear how it happened. We've also got music from the gentle-voiced singer, Doveman. He turns the dance-pop song "Let's Hear It For The Boy," from the Footloose soundtrack, into a slow dirge. Also on the show: Tilly and the Wall, a baroque viola piece, Teddy Thompson, the gifted son of Richard and Linda Thompson, Swedish singer Sarah Assbring, also known as El Perro Del Mar, and a nearly flawless new album from Germany's 20-year rock veterans, The Notwist.
Keywords: identity · artists · Secret · Germany · music · electronics · veterans · Singer · Swedish · songs · album · Richard
Jul 5th, 2008 · The son of folk-rockers Richard and Linda Thompson says he didn't listen to any music made after 1959 until he was 16. But his new album furthers his folk and country roots with some of the contemporary sounds he's grown to like.
Keywords: country · modern · contemporary · music · Thompson · album · folk · Richard · rocker · 1959 · Teddy · Linda Thompson
Aug 23rd, 2007 · Imagine being a singer and never being sure when you open your mouth whether you will have your voice. For years, Linda Thompson's vocal disorder, hysteric dysphonia, made her stop singing completely. It took three years to complete her new CD, Versatile Heart.
Keywords: disorder · CD · Singer · Thompson · Linda · Linda Thompson · hysterical · dysphonia
Aug 3rd, 2007 · Like so many great songs about complex issues, Linda Thompson's cover of Tom Waits' "Day After Tomorrow" views the ethics and impact of war on the smallest possible scale, functioning entirely from the perspective of a disillusioned soldier preparing to return home.
Keywords: ethics · Soldiers · songs · function · Homecoming · Linda Thompson · Tom Waits Day After Tomorrow
Mar 20th, 2007 · Record producer Joe Boyd has worked with Eric Clapton, Pink Floyd, Nick Drake, Richard and Linda Thompson, R.E.M. and many other musical acts. He has a new memoir, called White Bicycles: Making Music in the 1960s.
Keywords: memoir · 1960 · music · Joe · Boyd · Richard · Eric Clapton · R.E.M · Drake · Floyd · Linda Thompson · Joe Boyd
May 3rd, 2006 · It is hard to discuss Teddy Thompson's music without drawing connections to his parents, the folk-rock legends Richard and Linda Thompson. This becomes even harder when Teddy collaborates with them on his albums, as he has done on his latest release, Separate Ways.
Keywords: music · Family · Thompson · legend · album · folk · Richard · collaboration · Teddy · Teddy Thompson · Linda Thompson
