Elizabeth Nelson (@paranoiacs.bsky.social)

Happy 77th birthday to Richard Thompson, a dark eminence and songwriting hero whose mainline into the heights and depths of the human struggle has nourished us for more than five decades. Here's a career retrospective I wrote about him over at Stereogum some years back. https://stereogum.com/1826762/richard-thompson-albums-from-worst-to-best/lists