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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 the founder of The Village Trip, a festival celebrating arts and activism in Greenwich Village and the East Village of New York City. This year's festival, the sixth, runs from September 14-28. Her latest book, Joan Baez: The Last Leaf, has won wide praise, Mojo's five-star review describing it as "the definitive biography". Liz is also the revising editor of Bob Dylan: No Direction Home by the late Robert Shelton.

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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