Monday, October 06, 2008

Talking Shop: Teddy Thompson

The son of 70s folk-rock stars Richard and Linda Thompson, he and his singer sister Kamila were brought up by their mother.


Teddy Thompson? This kid's amazing; his cover of Leonard Cohen's "Tonight Will Be Fine" on the DVD, I'm Your Man, makes a rather disappointing portrait of the world's greatest singer-songwriter worth the price of admission. He's channelling Hank Williams; I swear, when I witnessed his spell-binding rendition the first time, I could hear Hank Sr. coughin' "a hundred floors above him in the tower of song." I need A Piece Of What You Need (Verve Forecast).

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