English singer Linda Thompson has lost her singing voice to vocal dystonia, but her songs are gloriously on display in her new Proxy Music album, sung by family and friends from the Wainwrights and Eliza Carthy to The Proclaimers.
William Dart checks it out.
Cover image from Linda Thompson's album 'Proxy Music' Photo: Storysound Records
Music Details
ARTIST: The Bunch
TITLE: The Locomotion
ALBUM: Rock On
COMPOSER: King, Goffin
LABEL: Island
ARTIST: Richard & Linda Thompson
TITLE: Traces of my Love
ALBUM: Sunnyvista
COMPOSER: R Thompson
LABEL: Hannibal
ARTIST: Linda Thompson
TITLE: Les Trois Beaux Oiseaux de Paradis
ALBUM: One Clear Moment
COMPOSER: Ravel
LABEL: Wounded Bird
ARTIST: Linda Thompson
TITLE: Good-bye Dolly Gray
ALBUM: My Mother Doesn't Know I'm On the Stage
COMPOSER: Cobb, Barnes
LABEL: Omnivore
ARTIST: Linda Thompson
TITLE: Only a Boy
ALBUM: One Clear Moment
COMPOSER: L Thompson
LABEL: Wounded Bird
ARTIST: Linda Thompson
TITLE: No Telling
ALBUM: Fashionably Late
COMPOSER: L Thompson
LABEL: Rounder
Cover image from Linda Thompson's album 'Proxy Music' Photo: Storysound Records
ARTIST: Linda Thompson feat. Kami Thompson
TITLE: The Solitary Traveller
ALBUM: Proxy Music
COMPOSER: L Thompson, Walbourne
LABEL: StorySound
ARTIST: Linda Thompson feat. Teddy Thompson
TITLE: Those Damn Roches
ALBUM: Proxy Music
COMPOSER: L Thompson, T Thompson
LABEL: StorySound
ARTIST: Linda Thompson feat. Eliza Carthy
TITLE: That's the Way the Polka Goes
ALBUM: Proxy Music
COMPOSER: L Thompson, E Carthy
LABEL: StorySound
ARTIST: Linda Thompson feat. The Proclaimers
TITLE: Bonnie Lass
ALBUM: Proxy Music
COMPOSER: L Thompson, T Thompson
LABEL: StorySound
