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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: 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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The Manhattan Transfer, Queen Elizabeth Hall review - a class act

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Barbara Dickson, Cecil Sharp House review - intimate and beautifully paced

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Album: Bruce Springsteen - Only the Strong Survive

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Angeline Morrison, Cecil Sharp House - a ballad-maker for our time

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Album: Fisherman's Friends - One and All

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Cambridge Folk Festival 2022 review - a welcome Cherry Hinton reunion

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Album: The Kooks - 10 Tracks to Echo in the Dark

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Album: Simon Goff & Katie Melua - Aerial Objects

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Album: Mary Gauthier - Dark Enough to See the Stars

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Album: Nitty Gritty Dirt Band - Dirt Does Dylan

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I Fagiolini, Hollingworth, St Martin-in-the-Fields review -...

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Music Reissues Weekly: Chelsea - The Step-Forward Years

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Please Don't Destroy: Treasure of Foggy Mountain review...

Despite an ominous title, there’s always fair weather in the debut comic adventure film featuring Please Don’t Destroy, a NYC sketch...

Wonka review - a confusingly mixed bag of bonbons

As the 117 minutes of Wonka tick by, the question it poses gains momentum: who is this film actually for? Children of all ages...

Smyrna review - Greece at twilight

The Smyrna Catastrophe of 1922, in which tens of thousands of Greeks and Armenians were slaughtered by Turkish soldiers, is a topical subject...

The Peasants review - earthbound animation

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Album: Samara Joy - A Joyful Holiday

This six-track EP on Verve/UMG brings the breakthrough year of 2023 for Samara Joy to a neat close. In February she won two Grammys, as Best New...

Monica review - sombre American drama

There’s a rich seam of folk stories about changelings, infants snatched from home and replaced with a substitute child, to the horror and...