Proxy Music
Album • Jun 21 / 2024 • 11 songs, 39m 52s
Contemporary Folk
Singer-Songwriter
Noteable
Highly Rated
7.5
/ 10
Stricken by a disease that left her unable to sing, the British songwriter recruits a cast of guest vocalists for a set of songs that toy with assumptions about authorship and interpretation.
The extended Thompson clan, the Proclaimers and Rufus Wainwright are among those lending their voices to a moving set from a folk great
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Thompson cannot sing due to a medical condition, so Rufus and Martha Wainwright, John Grant and The Proclaimers are among vocal ‘proxies’