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Liz Thomson

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Liz Thomson has maintained a dual career, chronicling the international publishing industry, and writing arts journalism for newspapers and magazines around the world. The author of a number of critical anthologies on music and popular culture, she is a frequent broadcaster and moderator at literary festivals. Liz is the co-founder of the folk music charity Square Roots Productions and, in New York, of The Village Trip, a festival celebrating the history and heritage of Greenwich Village. Her latest book, Joan Baez: The Last Leaf (Palazzo Editions), has won wide praise, Mojo's five-star review describing it as "the definitive biography".

Articles By Liz Thomson

Album: Rhiannon Giddens - You're the One

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Judy Collins, Cambridge Folk Festival review - celebrating a seminal Sixties' album

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Album: Lucinda Williams - Stories from a Rock ‘n’ Roll Heart

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Polly Toynbee: An Uneasy Inheritance - My Family and Other Radicals review - looking back

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Album: Rufus Wainwright - Folkocracy

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Gretchen Peters, Cadogan Hall review - writer and performer of exquisite gems

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Album: The Milk Carton Kids - I Only See the Moon

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Album: Rodrigo y Gabriela - In Between Thoughts… A New World

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Album: Reg Meuross - Stolen from God

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Suzanne Vega, Royal Festival Hall review - the years melt away

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Album: Willie Nelson - I Don't Know a Thing About Love: The Songs of Harlan Howard

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Transatlantic Sessions, Southbank Centre - an evening of stellar music-making

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Album: Shania Twain - Queen of Me

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Albums of the Year 2022: Janis Ian - The Light at the End of the Line

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Album: Neil Diamond - A Neil Diamond Christmas

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Mary Gauthier, Union Chapel review - a living room concert in all but name

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Album: Sufjan Stevens - Javelin

Sufjan Stevens, so we’ve heard, has just been struck down with a rare and immobilising disease – the Guillain-Barré syndrome. With characteristic...

I Fagiolini, Hollingworth, Kings Place review - magnificent...

It was great to see Kings Place full on Saturday night for I Fagiolini’s take on the Monteverdi Vespers, added, rock’n’roll style, as an...

Music Reissues Weekly: Bowes Road Band - Back in the HCA

The acronym “HCA” in the title stands for Hornsey College of Art, the North London college which, in late May 1968, was occupied by its students...

PJ Harvey, Roundhouse, London review - incandescent perfecti...

London’s Roundhouse is a very special venue. For decades the circular shed, with its elegant ironwork supporting structures has hosted a wonderful...

James Blake, Alexandra Palace review - victory lap for Nort...

James Blake’s sold-out show at Ally Pally is his only UK stop this tour and it feels like a homecoming of sorts – while Blake now lives in Los...

Album: Ed Sheeran - Autumn Variations

Towering drums, seering and furious guitars, vocals that are powerful and often throat-scorching;...

Close-Up: The Twiggy Musical, Menier Chocolate Factory revie...

The Biba dresses are way too colourful, the shop’s interior about 10 times too bright… and did anybody really say ”happening threads”...

The Creator review - bold, beautiful, flawed sci-fi epic

It has been seven years since Gareth Edwards directed, for me, the best of the new generation of Star Wars films, Rogue One. Having made...

Falstaff, Opera North review - going green and having fun

There’s a charmingly retro feel to Opera North’s new Falstaff, which comes from it being done as part of their new “...