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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

Eurythmics Songbook Featuring Dave Stewart, London Palladium review - Annie Lennox would be proud

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Album: Rockstar - Dolly Parton

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Album: James Blunt - Who We Used to Be

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Thea Gilmore, Union Chapel review - after Afterlight, a challenge

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Album: Thea Gilmore

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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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