Given that her last recording followed a 17-year album drought, Thompson’s new offering, just five years after ‘Fashionably Late’, almost seems a rush release. She’s in confident form too, surrounded by friends and family, with daughter Kamila, son Teddy, Martha Wainwright, Antony Heggarty and Eliza and Martin Carthy among them. Ecelctic as ever, the songs range from acoustic pop to traditional folk, from the country-style ‘Give Me A Sad Song’ to folkish ballad ‘Blue & Gold’, and the hymn-like ‘Whisky, Bob Copper And Me’, a tribute to the grand old man of folk. Versatility indeed.
