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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

David Crosby: Remember My Name, Sky Arts review - a rock icon looks in the mirror

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Album: Martin Simpson - Home Recordings

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Album: Barbara Dickson - Time is Going Faster

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Album: Elvis Costello - Hey Clockface

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Album: Melody Gardot - Sunset in the Blue

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Album: Katie Melua - Album No 8

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Album: Loudon Wainwright III with Vince Giordano & The Nighthawks – I’d Rather Lead a Band

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Bob Woodward: Rage review - terror and tyranny in the White House

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Singer-songwriter Mary Chapin Carpenter: 'I wanted to do something. I wanted to be useful in some way'

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Album: Suzanne Vega - An Evening of New York Songs and Stories

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Cara Dillon Live at Cooper Hall, YouTube review - a warm Irish welcome

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Album: Tanya Donelly and The Parkington Sisters

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Jenny Diski: Why Didn’t You Just Do What You Were Told? Essays review - a posthumous collection from the pages of the LRB

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Album: Courtney Marie Andrews - Old Flowers

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Rockfield: The Studio on the Farm, BBC Four review - the amazing story of Britain's own honky chateau

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Album: Rufus Wainwright - Unfollow the Rules

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