Richard Thompson's Cabaret of Souls | Folk review

Royal Festival Hall, LondonIt says something about the unassuming nature of legendary bass player Danny Thompson that he has to be coaxed at length to take a bow at the conclusion of Cabaret of Souls. On one hand, that's unsurprising: Thompson is the eternal sideman, content to lurk stage left, presumably safe in the knowledge that the woody twang of his double bass is as immediately recognisable as he is anonymous. But on the other, Richard Thompson's Cabaret of Souls was actually written for ...

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