Chris Thompson

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1973 cover of the self titled "Chris Thompson" album

Christopher Malcolm Thompson is a very experienced and professional Folk/Blues/Country singer/songwriter from Raglan, who's musical heroes are musicians like Bert Jansch and Townes van Zandt. Chris has made many records and has recorded with such luminaries as Brendan Power, Dave McArtney, Frank Gibson and Tom Ludvigson.Chris started out in the local Folk Clubs after having had guitar lessons from David Calder of The Hamilton County Bluegrass Band.In the late sixties/early seventies, he moved to England where played guitar in the band of well known Californian folk singer Julie Felix. Back in N.Z. after a successful album(The Natural Blues)Chris toured with Stevie Ray Vaughan. While in England in the early 1970s Chris played with British Folk-Blues legends Wizz Jones and Davey Graham. In New Zealand in 1974 Chris toured with Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee; he has maintained a lifelong friendship with Brownie, for whom he wrote a song ("Letter to Brownie"), which was videoed by TVNZ. Chris has had three albums reach the finals of the N.Z. Music Industry awards.As a songwriter, Chris has had seven hits,having had his songs recorded by N.Z. artists Mike Harding,"The Big Muffin Serious Band" Jimmy Young and James Wilkinson',' Chris Priestley, and in America, by Meg Baird of the Philadelphia neo-folk group The Espers... "The Straw Bear Band" and "Ben Thistle" (in England) and recently(and again, in America ) Chris' most well-known song "Where is my Wild Rose?" has been recorded by Robin Pecknold of The Fleet Foxes.

Releases

Chris Thompson (Anthology) cover art

as Chris and Lynne Thompson:


Compilations:

External Links

White Sapphire cover

Internet

Videos on Youtube:


This Chris Thompson should not be confused with Chris Thompson, the vocalist from Manfred Mann, who also spent time in Hamilton, including attending Hamilton Boys High School.