Linda Thompson - What's In My Bag?

[@Riatzi]

She picks Hank Williams and Charlie Patton. That's enough reason to love her already, for me. To top it off, she knew Tim Buckley...AND (sigh) Nick Drake. Well, hats off to you, Linda Thompson.

[@banjoplayingbison2275]

Same here! Lol Hank Williams, Charley Patton, and Nick Drake are like my go to for sad music!

[@jt20042]

A legendary talent and it's fascinating to hear her tell stories. She was brutally honest. Even after all these years Linda still got shook up when talking of Nick Drake.

[@manlyduckling]

One of the greatest folk singers ever.

[@madadam12]

Linda Thompson would be so much fun to hang out with. Thanks, Amoeba, for sharing this "What's in My Bag" with us!

[@amoeba]

+Adam Ross She was super fun to hang out with while we shot this. She's really cool and full of amazing stories.

[@DavidAndrewsPEC]

Just is just über-adorable.

[@CipherSerpico]

Man, those are some great picks. I just listened to Richard & Linda Thompson’s album “I want to see the bright lights tonight” and was absolutely blown away. Definitely check it out if you haven’t already.

[@SiLatics56]

It's very good but not one for the Christmas party!!!

[@ZMCA97]

What a great music taste

[@frannieo1707]

Love Linda's music. Her singing is divine. Found this interview very touching, not least for her memories of Nick Drake. Thanks for posting.

[@davidk2468]

Beautiful! Thank you, Ms. Thompson

[@56onion]

Great Linda. I love your voice and your great music culture.

[@GoodbyePanama]

Interesting that she mentions Satie. The instrumental coda that concludes R&L Thompson's "The Great Valerio" is lifted nearly note for note from Satie's "La balancoire."

[@cpodurnell3701]

Love her voice; in a era when it seems every singer sounds the same, I hear her voice, its Linda.

[@friendlier]

Wonderful! So well-spoken to boot.

[@TylerMessick]

Great to hear Linda’s vibe

[@Babagula89]

She's great :)

[@djtrishm]

so cool to see a true artists picks!

[@meederr]

A legend. And sweetheart.

[@johnlaquidara3792]

This was wonderful to watch.

[@schackart8609]

She looks great!

[@willy1957]

Love your taste Linda 🫶🏼

[@ricardoluce2170]

She seems so cool!

[@JHarder1000]

At last! somebody picks a Hank Williams Album!

[@willyvlyminck201]

Great taste Linda! ❤️

[@paulamos2817]

Wow.what a wonderful and enlightening 10mins.many thanks.

[@Themsbeatlesrock]

Just finished reading nick drakes biography and she was in it! She has good taste

[@ohbabybabyify]

Beautiful lady, amazing artist

[@late_privktorian_era]

adorable!

[@chrisgorman3917]

LEGEND!!!!! love it's all cds

[@jaybone23]

Great picks. Nick Drake, a genius, and everyone seemed to know it except Nick. Of course he was quite ill, as she mentions.

[@emmettmckenna4565]

The long nails were probably for his guitar playing, unless it was both hands. And a ‘weak’ voice?!? One of the most beautiful voices ever. A bit like Colin Blunstone. I like Linda’s singing, but I could listen to Nick and Colin until the cows came home. Not so much with Linda.

[@honeychurchgipsy6]

@@emmettmckenna4565 - remember she was super nervous and speaking without script - she probably realised that weak wasn't the best description of Nick Drake's voice after the interview. That said, his voice wasn't powerful physically - emotionally yes - but sometimes he sings almost in a hoarse whisper - maybe that's what she was trying to describe. As for the long nails thing - I doubt she would misunderstand a guitar player's long nails (except I think Drake used a plectrum) for the 'Howard Hughes' long nails and unwashed hair she describes.

[@ConnieLynchitzWhoElse]

@@honeychurchgipsy6 Drake played a fingerpicking style, and yes there's a difference between "slightly long nails for playing guitar" and "letting your nails grow to grotesque proportions because you can't be arsed cutting them". Drake at some point likely fell into the latter. She was married to one of the greatest guitar players of the last 50+ years for a time, she'd know the difference. And Drake's voice was weak, let's not sugarcoat it, he had a limited range yet he used it effectively with alternate tunings on his guitar and the arrangements that he wrote.

[@tobyruncorn2]

There is an air of sadness and regret through this.

[@keithkeller4156]

The, "So sad it makes you happy" genre'.

[@VanGopherVincent]

This is delightful. Going to listen to some Satie now!

[@AduderReviews]

Good stuff!

[@garyhosty9874]

wonderful choices !

[@keithkeller4156]

Sharing again and everybody loves L.T.

[@HakimALIGHT]

Love you Linda!

[@BigVitus]

cool lady

[@sword649]

Best music on the planet is all about Doom & Gloom!

[@moonchildtheking5008]

She shared a flat with Tim Buckley. That's enough for me, Linda wins.

[@joedanaher1202]

She is great, what was Richard thinking ?

[@stormbringercoming8105]

He wasn’t. Little Dick Thompson was.

[@billking8843]

He said their 10 years of marriage was like 20 for anyone else because they were never apart. But still, what was he thinking? I think it was the only rock star thing he ever did.

[@therecordretreat]

"now i've got to get a bloody cab..!" lol

[@fredfat1606]

brilliant choice

[@alternativefm328]

Linda 👍👍👍

[@SoulStylistJukeBox]

Wow!

[@jamescogan548]

I will look into Charlie Patton. I did not think he recorded much.

[@hughmcnaughtan7893]

Great music great singer who new in the early 60s at Queen’s Park school she would be so famous Remember some names if you see this Linda “the Kennedy brothers Fay Harvey and others

[@Anthony-hu3rj]

She has a new album coming out -- 2024 -- but if you're reading this is 2029 then it was five years ago.

[@douggray8557]

Yes! Loving the first single, The Solitary Traveller. Looking forward to album's release. Called "Proxy Music" with a cheeky Roxy Music debut album cover tribute! 😻😅

[@Ofthegirl09]

I was introduced to her from Justin Hawkins Rides Again, the KZbin channel, and love her voice. Not really into the music she chose. However, Jeff Buckley was a beautiful rock god who I never knew of until long after he died. If you've never heard him, do yourself a favor and listen to 'Grace.'

[@scott7521]

I kept wondering if she'd pull out a Richard Thompson CD as a gag, that would have been funny.

[@landlinesandpercolators8822]

In my bag would be "Shoot Out The Lights"....

[@honeychurchgipsy6]

And Mock Tudor - can't stop playing that album lately.

[@sspbrazil]

As to be expected, Linda has great taste in music, two of my favorite composers are Satie and DeBussy, she’s right, those are the best French composers.

[@MARKJOHNSON-rp9md]

I got thrown out of Amobea for filming!

[@willy1957]

Please ask Peter Hammill in these serie

[@brvndxxxn]

I see a Cocteau Twins cd there in her pile, why didn’t you share her talking about it?

[@unchattytwit]

Very lovely lady.

[@generalmunro748]

No Rafferty Linda,?

[@yournamehere6719]

I'd make a deal with the Devil to get to live in London in the mid-1960's.

[@hardfolk]

[@JimHarrisArt]

Good one.

[@karimtabrizi376]

Tim and Jeff Buckley really had an amazing vocal range and yet again gone too soon.

[@sword649]

Gojira are a great French metal band from Ondres.

[@joesquat2891]

she looks like my psychologist

[@muttilo]

Your a tool

[@RayasNegroOvejas]

Wow, Jeff better singer than Tim? I don't know about that; it maybe comes down to taste. Both were great of course.

[@JIF882]

I agree. Jeff is better than Tim. Having said that, Tim did have a unique voice.

[@TheFourteenthWard]

Jeff was a better singer, but Tim was a better songwriter. Both great, though.

[@michaelwilson2340]

Both were great for different reasons. Tim did have a larger catalog though.

[@whatevershebrings]

'Jeff was a better singer than Tim', eh? And was Sandy Denny a better singer than you, Linda Thompson?

[@Cruithneach]

@@whatevershebrings She would agree kzbin.info/www/bejne/f2q6Yqpsj5tgkJI

[@bencvideos2877]

@Amoeba Randy "Numan" is misspelled

[@whatevershebrings]

Randy Numan, you know...Gary's brother...you know...Tubeway Army?

[@joemarquand1746]

I wish I could have lunch with her. She is magnificent.

[@manlyduckling]

A hundred floors, saith Leonard.

[@pop_ulation]

"he went all howard hughes..."

[@closedmouth]

what's the song at the start?

[@borbetomagus]

+closedmouth 'I Want To See The Bright Lights Tonight', the title track from Richard & Linda Thompson's second album (from 1974). The album has a variety of great songs, though not as cheery as the title track.

[@JcGrubbsFilms]

I'm so surprised nobody has commented on her taking off and on her glasses. I thought it was a great what's in my bag, but damn it bugged me so much how she kept putting the glasses on for a second then ripping them off!

[@fredobonasas]

If you listen right to the end you hear her saying ' I'm sorry, I was a bit nerve wracked', that's all it is, a nervous tick, it makes you do things incessantly.

[@morganfisherart]

Looks to me like she has fixed-focus reading glasses - needed for reading the tiny text on CDs, not needed to see the person she is talking to. Progressive lenses will take care of that problem, they can just be left on all the time.

[@lynb2039]

Modestly: I didn't notice until you brought it up - Linda often strokes her hair here, as well. Overall, she's just expressive, with her hands, her voice, and in her enthusiasm for the subject, which, let us not forget, is naturally laden with decades of her youthful memories. Give this wonderful talented lady a break, eh? Imagine yourself in such a scenario. You'd never survive a viewing of Kevin Spacey, doing his incomparable celebrity imitations; he touches himself all the time, but so what? Simply look away and listen if you can't tolerate people's inherent manners of expression. Welcome to the human race.

[@paulamos2817]

Get over it 🙄

[@danarzechula3769]

Oh give it time you'll understand😂

[@donjanes9070]

I'm sure lots of people picnic.

[@jimmaculate5]

I could tell Linda was a nervous wreck. Relax, Darling!

[@s0ld4u]

Jeff a better singer than Tim? Sorry Linda that is very wrong. Also Tim was not "on heroin" at any point in his life. He did o/d on it after snorting it, but from what I understand he was not an addict by any stretch of the imagination. Otherwise, a nice selection.

[@smanticus]

Have to agree with her. Jeff's voice was more dynamic, more expressive and had a wider range.

[@DonSulis]

@@smanticus Tim's voice was brilliant, but his boy inherited it and could do more with it.

[@tynebar]

She's not wrong, it's her opinion. re: Tim Buckley: the womn knew him, spoke to him and hung out... so, she'd know I thnk.

[@nobbynoris]

Every time I have to listen to someone like Randy Newman or any of the rest of that seemingly bottomless well of bleeding-heart 70s male singer-songwriter-pianists it makes me think of the hapless, goggle-eyed, socially-challenged Winslow Leech in The Phantom Of The Paradise.

[@edgaristtod]

Hank williams didn't die in a car accident. Wikipedia.

[@xTheOxx]

She didn't mention an accident, she said he died in the back of a car. Which he did.

[@honeychurchgipsy6]

fuck me - if you're going to criticise someone - even going to Wiki for evidence of wrongness - at least ensure beforehand that you've listened correctly.

[@michaeligoe3935]

Poor Nick. Once again damned with faint praise.

[@mysterysurf4554]

Huh? By whom, someone in the comments? Because if you took Linda's words about him that way, I'm kind of at a loss.

[@joesquat2891]

thumbs down

[@DilbertBodfrey]

I'll give you a thumb to squat down on boy

[@mozartfx1]

Your "shift" button seems to be broken.....you're welcome.

[@honeychurchgipsy6]

@joe squat - pourquoi?