Richard Thompson is readying the 20th solo studio album of his nearly six-decade career. The prolific and influential British guitarist will share Hippies, Thugs, and Heroes on October 16 via New West. His follow-up to 2024’s Ship to Shore is led by a raucous bar-rock ditty appropriately titled “Cocaine Walking, Booze Talking.” A 2020 box set gathered the complete discography of Richard Thompson and his former wife, Linda, who performed and recorded as a married duo between the years of 1972 and 1982. Revisit the Sunday Review of Richard and Linda Thompson’s I Want to See the Bright Lights Tonight.