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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: Bonnie Dobson & The Hanging Stars - Dreams

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Album: Bruce Springsteen - Tracks II: The Lost Albums

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Album: Mary Chapin Carpenter - Personal History

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Album: Suzanne Vega - Flying With Angels

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Album: Rhiannon Giddens & Justin Robinson - What Did the Blackbird Say to the Crow

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An Evening with Joan Armatrading, Cadogan Hall review - thoughtful and engaging conversation

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Album: Elton John and Brandi Carlile - Who Believes in Angels?

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Album: Reg Meuross, Fire & Dust: A Woody Guthrie Story

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Album: Mary Chapin Carpenter, Julie Fowlis & Karine Polwart - Looking For the Thread 

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Album: Lucinda Williams Sings The Beatles from Abbey Road

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Album: Joan Armatrading - How Did This Happen and What Does It Now Mean

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Album: Silkroad Ensemble with Rhiannon Giddens - American Railroad

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Le Vent du Nord, Cecil Sharp House review - five extraordinary musicians

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Album: Garfunkel & Garfunkel: Father and Son

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Album: Gillian Welch & David Rawlings - Woodland

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Madeleine Peyroux, Barbican review - a transport of delight

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