Linda Thompson, who ranks among the finest singers of her generation, hardly sings a note on “Proxy Music," her first album in over a decade. Instead, Thompson makes herself heard through her ...

“Once I had a voice clear and true … but now that voice is gone,” is the arresting opening declaration of The Solitary Traveller, the first thing we hear on a surprising new album by Linda Thompson, ...

Thus Proxy Music. The first line of the first song says it clearly: “I had a voice clear and true...” Sung by her daughter Kami, “Solitary Traveller” with its wurlitzer-style backing, has a melody ...

Linda Thompson gained acclaim for her endlessly evocative singing voice. She imbued many of the original songs written by her one-time husband, Richard, with tenderness and soul. But she also wrote ...